Adolescent Family Life Care Demonstration Project

The summary for the Adolescent Family Life Care Demonstration Project grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Office of Public Health and Science, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Adolescent Family Life Care Demonstration Project: Under this announcement, funds are available for care projects only. The project site or sites must be identified in the application rather than selected after the grant is awarded. Under the Title XX statute, the primary purpose of care programs is to establish innovative, comprehensive, and integrated approaches to the delivery of care services for pregnant adolescents and adolescent parents under 19 years of age at program entry, with primary emphasis on unmarried adolescents who are 17 years old or younger. Care services should promote the healthy involvement of the adolescents' children, extended family members, fathers of their children, husbands, and/or male partners with whom they are in a long-term relationship. The OAPP encourages the submission of care applications which propose to: (1) Add care services to supplement existing adolescent health services in school, hospital or other community settings; (2) provide care services to underserved populations; (3) continue services to clients after the delivery of the baby to enable them to acquire good parenting skills and to ensure that their children are developing physically, intellectually and emotionally; (4) stress self-sufficiency skills, such as school completion (in mainstream or alternative schools and GED programs) and/or job training preparation and placement; (5) involve the adolescents' children, extended family members, fathers of their children, husbands and/or male partners with whom they are in a long- term relationship (e.g., through job training, parenting classes, and counseling); (6) provide education on how to build and maintain healthy relationships, prepare for marriage, parenting and future families; (7) assure identification of mental health concerns and referral to appropriate resources; and (8) provide Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) and HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention counseling. Applicants should justify their proposed approach by assessing current literature and describing the lack of existing programming in the community. Applicants should propose projects that will establish better coordination, integration, and linkages [[Page 14787]] among organizations with such existing programs. Under the statutory requirements of Title XX, applicants for care projects are required to provide, either directly or by referral, the following 10 core services: (1) Pregnancy testing and maternity counseling; (2) Adoption counseling and referral services which present adoption as an option for pregnant adolescents, including referral to licensed adoption agencies in the community if the eligible grant recipient is not a licensed adoption agency; (3) Primary and preventive health services, including prenatal and postnatal care; (4) Nutrition information and counseling; (5) Referral for screening and treatment of STIs, including HIV/ AIDS; (6) Referral to appropriate pediatric care; (7) Educational services relating to family life and problems associated with adolescent premarital sexual relations including: (a) Information about adoption; (b) Education on the responsibilities of sexuality and parenting; (c) The development of material to support the role of parents as the providers of sex education; and (d) Assistance to parents, schools, youth agencies and health providers to educate adolescents and preadolescents concerning self- discipline and responsibility in human sexuality; (8) Appropriate educational and vocational services; (9) Mental health services and referral to mental health services and to other appropriate physical health services; and (10) Counseling and referral for family planning services.