The Centers for Disease Control – NCIPC is soliciting proposals for its Essentials for Childhood (EfC): Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences through Data to Action.
Donor Name: Centers for Disease Control – NCIPC
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/12/2023
Size of the Grant: $485,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
Essentials for Childhood (EfC): Preventing Adversity through Data to Action, a cooperative agreement designed to support states in the prevention of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and promotion of positive childhood experiences (PCEs). ACEs are preventable, potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood (0-17 years) such as experiencing or witnessing violence, experiencing neglect; witnessing violence in the home. Also included are aspects of the child’s environment that can undermine their sense of safety, stability, and bonding such as growing up in a household with substance use problems, mental health problems, or instability due to parental separation or incarceration of a parent, sibling or other member of the household. ACEs can have significant consequences, including associations with poor health outcomes (e.g., asthma, cancer, heart disease), health risk behaviors (e.g., current smoking and heavy drinking), mental health challenges (depression, anxiety), and socioeconomic challenges (e.g., unemployment and no health insurance).
This NOFO will support the implementation of data-driven, comprehensive, evidence-based ACEs primary prevention strategies and approaches, with a particular focus on health equity, to prevent ACEs and ensure safe, stable nurturing relationships and environments for all children. Recipients will enhance a state-level surveillance infrastructure that ensures the capacity to collect, analyze, and use ACEs and PCEs data among youth; and conduct data-to-action activities to inform changes or adaptations to existing strategies or selection and implementation of additional prevention strategies.
Strategies and Activities
- Goal 1: Build or improve Surveillance Infrastructure and Capacity
- Goal 2: Implement and Sustain ACEs Prevention Strategies
- Goal 3: Use ACEs/PCEs Data for Action
To support these goals, recipients are expected to leverage multi-sector partnerships and resources to improve ACE and PCE surveillance infrastructures and the coordination and implementation of ACE prevention strategies across the state and, for some recipients, communities within the state. As a result, there will be increased state capacity to develop and sustain a surveillance system that collects, uses, and disseminates data on ACEs and PCEs, including data used to identify health inequities; and increased implementation and reach of ACE prevention strategies that help to promote safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments where children live, learn and play.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $29,114,065
- Award Ceiling: $485,000
- Award Floor: $400,000
Period of Performance
5 year(s)
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
Additional Eligibility Category
- Government Organizations:
- State governments or their bona fide agents (includes the District of Columbia)
- Local governments or their bona fide agents
- Territorial governments or their bona fide agents in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau
- State controlled institutions of higher education
- American Indian or Alaska Native tribal governments (federally recognized or state-recognized)
- Non-government Organizations
- American Indian or Alaska native tribally designated organizations
Additional Information on Eligibility
All applicants may apply for the optional enhanced activities. Applicants applying for the enhanced activities will be required to do one or more additional activities as described in the Approach, Evaluation and Performance Measurement, and Organizational Capacity sections of this NOFO. Applicants applying for the optional enhanced activities must clearly state their intent to apply for these activities in the project abstract. Funding for these activities will not be considered if it is not clearly stated in the project abstract.
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