The Health Resources and Services Administration is accepting applications under the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program Home Visiting Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network 3.0 (HV CoIIN 3.0) to disseminate and scale up the most effective practices and interventions identified under the Home Visiting Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (HV CoIIN) 2.0 and to research the development of specific tools and resources to advance quality improvement practices within the MIECHV Program.
Donor Name: Health Resources and Services Administration
Country: U.S.
State: All States
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/06/2022
Grant Size: $1,300,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The objectives of this program are to:
- Plan, manage, and execute the scale up of interventions tested and found to be effective in HV CoIIN 2.0 to at least 30 state recipients and 300 local implementing agencies (LIAs). These interventions include strategies to alleviate maternal depression, support families impacted by Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), promote developmental screening and linkage to services, increase breastfeeding initiation and duration, complete age-appropriate well child care visits, improve the recruitment and retention of home visiting staff, and develop parent leadership within continuous quality improvement (CQI) efforts;
- Refine and test a new set of evidence-informed change strategies using accepted evaluation methodologies, such as rapid Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles, in alignment with best practices in home visiting implementation, emerging innovations, and the MIECHV Program performance measures;
- Further refine the health equity framework and parent leadership toolkit developed in HV CoIIN 2.0 and support the integration of the health equity and parent leadership in CQI principles across all HV CoIIN 3.0 scale up and new topic CQI activities; and
- Assist MIECHV recipients and LIAs in building their capacity to use CQI as a tool for ongoing program monitoring and improvement, utilizing coaching and peer-to-peer learning networks to ensure sustainability.
Funding Information
- HRSA estimates approximately $1,300,000 to be available annually to fund one (1) recipient. You may apply for a ceiling amount of up to $1,300,000 total cost (includes both direct and indirect, facilities and administrative costs) per year.
- The period of performance is September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2027 (5 years)
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants include public and private entities. Domestic faith-based and community-based organizations, tribes, and tribal organizations are also eligible to apply.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
