Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health

The summary for the Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health 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 Health Resources and Services Administration, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health: Under this program, grants will be awarded to address significant disparities in perinatal health indicators. Eliminating disparities in Perinatal Health focuses on disparities in Hispanics, American Indians, African Americans, Alaskan Natives, Asian Pacific Islanders, Immigrant Populations or differences occurring by education, income, disability, or living in rural, isolated areas by enhancing a community's service system. Communities must provide a scope of project services that will cover pregnancy and interconceptional phases for women and infants residing in the proposed project area. Services are to be given to both mother and infant for two years following delivery to promote longer interconceptional periods and prevent relapses of unhealthy risk behaviors.

Federal Grant Title:	Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health
Federal Agency Name:	Health Resources and Services Administration
Grant Categories:	Health
Type of Opportunity:	Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number:	HRSA-06-103
Type of Funding:	Grant
CFDA Numbers:	93.926
CFDA Descriptions:	Healthy Start Initiative
Current Application Deadline:	No deadline provided
Original Application Deadline:	Aug 30, 2005
Posted Date:	Jul 28, 2005
Creation Date:	Dec 15, 2006
Archive Date:	Nov 28, 2005
Total Program Funding:	$4,800,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award:
Minimum Federal Grant Award:
Expected Number of Awards:	6
Cost Sharing or Matching:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: Any public or private entity, including an Indian tribe or tribal organization (as defined at 25 U.S.C. 450b) is eligible to apply. Funding would be made available to community-based (and faith-based) projects which have: 1) significant disparities in perinatal indicators which contribute to high infant mortality rates, among one or more subpopulations; 2) an existing active consortia of stakeholders which have underway a perinatal disparity reduction initiative or a plan to establish one; and, 3) a feasible plan to reduce barriers, improve the local perinatal system of care, and work towards eliminating existing disparities in perinatal health. These sites must have or plan to implement/adapt Healthy Start strategies of consortium, case management, and outreach services in a culturally and linguistically sensitive manner. In addition, they must submit documentation of collaboration with the State Title V Agency. Applicants must demonstrate exist! ing/planned collaborations with other key State and local services and resources systems. Such key State and local resources include Title X, Title XIX, Title XXI, WIC, Enterprise Communities/Empowerment Zones, federally funded Community and Migrant Health Centers, federally funded Health Care for the Homeless projects, and Indian/Tribal Health Services.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: Information not provided
Grant Announcement Contact: Contact HRSA Call Center at 877-Go4-HRSA/877-464-4772;301-998-7373 or email [email protected] [email protected]
Similar Government Grants: • Healthy Start Initiative: Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health; • Supporting Healthy Start Performance Project; • Healthy Start Initiative - Enhanced; • Healthy Start Supplement: Community-Based Doulas; • Catalyst for Infant Health Equity; • Healthy Start Initiative-Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Disparities; • National Fetal and Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) Resource Center; • Disparities in Perinatal Health-Border, Alaska and Hawaii
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