The purpose of this 5-year cooperative agreement is to protect and improve the health and well-being of school-age children in underserved and disproportionately affected communities. CDC’s Healthy Schools will award approximately 16 recipients with up to 50 recipients depending on available funding.
Donor Name: Centers for Disease Control
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/11/2023
Size of the Grant: $425,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
Recipients will use the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model to: establish key partnerships to support school health programs; promote dissemination and implementation of CDC school health guidelines, tools, and resources through professional development and technical assistance; and use action planning to implement physical activity, school nutrition, and school health services policies, practices, and programs within state and local education agencies, schools, and out-of-school time settings.
Expected outcomes to be achieved include an (1) increase in the numbers of schools with an action plan based on the completion of CDC’s School Health Index; (2) increased implementation of Comprehensive School Health Activity Programs; (3) increased school nutrition and security policies and practices; (4) increased school-based health services that support students with chronic health conditions; and (5) increased physical activity, healthy dietary behaviors, and self-management of chronic conditions among students.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $425,000
- Award Floor: $375,000
- Total Period of Performance Length: 5 year(s)
Eligibility Criteria
- Special district governments
- Small businesses
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Independent school districts
- County governments
- State governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
