The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2023 National Maternal and Child Health Data Resource Center (DRC).
Donor Name: Health Resources and Services Administration
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/16/2022
Size of the Grant: $900,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The purpose of the DRC is to support Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services Block Grant programs, hereafter referred to as Title V programs, and other MCH partners in accessing and effectively utilizing national and state-level National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) data to inform policy and practice. Additionally, the purpose of the DRC is to support broad access to and utilization of the NSCH data through an easy-to-use web platform which provides a user-defined query system for point-and click access to state and national estimates, curated data files for analyses, maps, and methodological documents designed for a wide audience. These resources are complemented by technical assistance (TA) as requested by Title V programs and other MCH partners.
The program goals are to:
- Increase the use of NSCH data by Title V programs and other MCH partners.
- Increase the use of NSCH data to assess health disparities.
Core objectives to support program goals are to be accomplished during the period of performance include:
- Annually, provide targeted TA on NSCH data use to at least 15 Title V programs who are using the NSCH to inform their needs assessments.
- Annually, increase the use of all publically available DRC digital resources and data query by at least 5% from prior year reported use, as measured by unique users and page views.
- Annually, collaborate with relevant MCHB-funded resource and TA centers to conduct at least one targeted communication effort to disseminate the DRC’s NSCH resources to Title V programs and other MCH partners.
- By 2028, expand the capacity of the DRC data query to view key indicators of child health across multiple years of data in order to facilitate access to trend data.
- By 2028, develop at least 2 new DRC query indicators, pertaining to health equity and/or social determinants of health to incorporate in the DRC data query along with relevant supporting materials.
Funding Information
- HRSA estimates approximately $900,000 to be available annually to fund one recipient.
- The period of performance is May 1, 2023 through April 30, 2028 (5 years).
Eligibility Criteria
- Any domestic public or private entity, including an Indian tribe or tribal organization (as those terms are defined at 25 U.S.C. § 5304 (formerly cited as 25 U.S.C. § 450b)), is eligible to apply. Domestic faith-based and community-based organizations are eligible to apply.
- County governments
- Special district governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- 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
- City or township governments
- Independent school districts
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- State governments.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
