The Primary Prevention of Cancer RFA solicits applications for eligible projects up to 3 years in duration that will deliver multilevel, evidence-based interventions that improve cancer-related health behaviors, including improving the quality of life and cancer outcomes for cancer survivors.
Donor Name: Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas
State: Texas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/30/2023
Size of the Grant: $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
This award mechanism focuses on increasing implementation of evidence-based strategies to ensure that all Texans benefit from the cancer prevention knowledge that they currently have. CPRIT seeks to fund multilevel interventions to reduce cancer risk, disease burden, and cancer disparities. Modifiable risk behaviors include tobacco use, obesity, physical inactivity, unhealthy eating, alcohol use, sun exposure, HPV vaccination, Hepatitis B vaccination, and environmental/ occupational cancer exposures. Applications should also assess and address social determinants that contribute to cancer burden and disparities (e.g., cultural factors, unmet needs, access barriers). Interventions and communications should be structured to address the unique circumstances of the population to be served.
Goals
The ultimate goals of the CPRIT Prevention Program are to reduce cancer incidence and mortality, reduce cancer disparities, and improve the lives of cancer survivors. More than half of cancers can be prevented by applying prevention knowledge they already have about modifiable causes of cancer. They can prevent some cancers, including second primary cancers in cancer survivors, by promoting and providing hepatitis B and HPV vaccines, supporting environmental approaches that make healthy choices easier, and empowering people to make healthy lifestyle choices related to tobacco use, nutrition, physical activity, and sun safety.
Project Objectives
CPRIT seeks to reduce modifiable risk behaviors via projects that will do 1 or more of the following:
- Establish collaborations and partnerships with communities to deliver multilevel, evidence based projects to reduce disparities and achieve health equity
- Deliver multilevel, evidence-based projects that include public and/or professional education, outreach, navigation to and delivery of primary prevention interventions
- Implement policy, systems and environmental changes that are sustainable over time examples include the following:
- Advocating for/supporting structures that provide shade, sidewalks, paths, and recreation areas in community design
- Implementing Farm to School program
- Increasing availability of healthy food choices in restaurants or cafeterias
- Advocating for/supporting policies for smoke-free zones and public events
- Implementing programs that result in sustained smoking cessation.
Prevention Program Priorities
Legislation from the 83rd Texas Legislature requires that CPRIT’s Oversight Committee establish program priorities on an annual basis. The priorities are intended to provide transparency in how the Oversight Committee directs the orientation of the agency’s funding portfolio. The Prevention Program’s principles and priorities will also guide CPRIT staff and the Prevention Review Council (PRC) on the development and issuance of program-specific Requests for Applications (RFAs) and the evaluation of applications submitted in response to those RFAs.
- Established Principles:
- Fund evidence-based interventions and their dissemination
- Support the prevention continuum of primary, secondary, and tertiary (includes survivorship) prevention interventions
- CPRIT’s Cross-Program Priorities:
- Prevention Program Priorities
- Prioritize populations disproportionately affected by cancer incidence, mortality, or cancer risk prevalence
- Prioritize geographic areas of the state disproportionately affected by cancer incidence, mortality, or cancer risk prevalence
- Prioritize populations with obstacles to cancer prevention, detection, diagnostic testing, treatment, and survivorship services
- Assess CPRIT Prevention Program to identify best practices, use as a quality improvement tool, and guide future program direction.
Funding Information
The amount of total funding that applicants may request is dependent on the primary focus of the project and on the type of project: New, Initial Expansion, or Maintenance Expansion.
- New Project
- Maximum Amount of Total Funding: $1 million
- Maximum Duration: 3 years
- Initial Expansion
- Maximum Amount of Total Funding: $1 million
- Maximum Duration: 3 years
- Initial Expansion – Vaccination or Tobacco Cessation for Adults
- Maximum Amount of Total Funding: $1.5 million
- Maximum Duration: 3 years
- Maintenance Expansion
- Maximum Amount of Total Funding: $2 million
- Maximum Duration: 5 years
- Maintenance Expansion – Vaccination or Tobacco Cessation for Adults
- Maximum Amount of Total Funding: $2.5 million
- Maximum Duration: 5 years
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant must be a Texas-based entity, such as a community-based organization, health institution, government organization, public or private company, college or university, or academic health institution
- The applicant is eligible solely for the grant mechanism specified by the RFA under which the grant application was submitted
- The designated Program Director (PD) will be responsible for the overall performance of the funded project. The PD must have relevant education and management experience and must reside in Texas during the project performance time
- The evaluation of the project must be headed by a professional who has demonstrated expertise in the field and who resides in Texas during the time that the project is conducted
- The applicant may submit more than 1 application, but each application must be for distinctly different services without overlap in the services provided. Applicants who do not meet this criterion will have all applications administratively withdrawn without peer review
- If an organization has a current CPRIT grant that is the same or similar to the prevention intervention being proposed, the applicant must explain how the projects are nonduplicative or complementary. Duplicative applications will be administratively withdrawn
- Collaborations are permitted and encouraged, and collaborators may or may not reside in Texas. However, collaborators who do not reside in Texas are not eligible to receive CPRIT funds. Collaborators should have specific and well-defined roles. Subcontracting and collaborating organizations may include public, not-for-profit, and for-profit entities. Such entities may be located outside of the State of Texas, but non-Texas-based organizations are not eligible to receive CPRIT funds
- An applicant is not eligible to receive a CPRIT grant award if the applicant PD, any senior member or key personnel listed on the grant application, or any officer or director of the grant applicant’s organization or institution is related to a CPRIT Oversight Committee member
- An applicant organization is eligible to receive a grant award only if the applicant certifies that the applicant organization, including the PD, any senior member or key personnel listed on the grant application, or any officer or director of the grant applicant’s organization (or any person related to 1 or more of these individuals within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity), has not made and will not make a contribution to CPRIT or to any foundation created to benefit CPRIT
- The applicant must report whether the applicant organization, the PD, or other individuals who contribute to the execution of the proposed project in a substantive, measurable way, (whether slated to receive salary or compensation under the grant award or not), are currently ineligible to receive federal grant funds because of scientific misconduct or fraud or have had a grant terminated for cause within 5 years prior to the submission date of the grant application
- CPRIT grants will be awarded by contract to successful applicants. CPRIT grants are funded on a reimbursement-only basis. Certain contractual requirements are mandated by Texas law or by administrative rules. Although applicants need not demonstrate the ability to comply with these contractual requirements at the time the application is submitted, applicants should make themselves aware of these standards before submitting a grant application.
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