CDC Healthy Communities
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:26 pm
Overview
Health and wellness are influenced by the homes, neighborhoods and communities in which people live, work and play. Good physical and mental health depend on factors outside of the public health and health care system, such as affordable and secure housing and sustainable and economically vital neighborhoods that provide access to employment opportunities and public resources The overarching purpose of this program is to prevent heart attack, strokes, cancer and other leading causes of death or disability through evidence and practice-based policy, environmental, programmatic, and infrastructure changes in states, large counties, tribes and territories. Applicants should define and justify concrete, achievable targets for these objectives for their area. More specifically, in part, the purpose of this program is to create healthier communities by 1) building capacity to implement broad evidence and practice-based policy, environmental, programmatic and infrastructure changes, as appropriate, in large counties, and in states, tribes and territories, including in rural and frontier areas
This announcement is only for non-research activities supported by CDC. If research is proposed, the application will not be reviewed. For the definition of research, please see the CDC Web site at the following Internet address:
http://www.cdc.gov/od/science/integrity ... search.pdf
Applicants MUST designate the specific category (Category A – Capacity Building or Category B – Implementation) for which they are applying. Applicants MAY NOT apply for more than one specific category.
Capacity Building recipients may pilot one or more implementation activities with their awarded funds, as their capacity to do so permits. The intent of this component is to fund recipients who represent areas that have limited or no experience implementing policy, environmental, programmatic, and infrastructure changes, as appropriate, but are ready to develop the capacity necessary to do so. Capacity Building recipients will develop the human capital, skills, partnerships, and infrastructure, as appropriate, to implement the activities required by an Implementation award. Capacity Building recipients will be eligible to apply for Implementation funding as additional funding becomes available during the five-year cooperative agreement funding cycle, once all target capacities as agreed upon by CDC and the recipient have been met.
Implementation recipients will implement policy, environmental, programmatic and infrastructure changes consistent with the strategic directions listed in this FOA. Funding from this component of the announcement will be provided to highly qualified recipients with among the highest documented burdens of chronic disease and with the following experience and support in place: one or more active coalitions and demonstrated success or experience working with state, community, tribal or territorial leaders, as appropriate, to implement policy, environmental, programmatic, and infrastructure change strategies; demonstrated effective efforts (including documented evaluations) to reduce health disparities; and demonstrated ability to meet reporting requirements such as programmatic, financial, and management benchmarks as required by the FOA.
Applicants should incorporate the overarching “Healthy People 2020” goals in plans and strategies. These include:
• Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
• Achieve health equity, eliminate health disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
• Create healthy and safe physical environments that promote good health for all.
• Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors across all life stages.
Recipients must ensure that planning and implementation activities reach the entire population and specific population subgroups, identified by the applicant, with documented health disparities within the geographic area. Health disparities represent preventable differences in the burden of disease, disability, injury and violence, or in opportunities to achieve optimal health. Recipients will engage populations that are facing health disparities in a variety of settings to make the healthy choice the easy choice, and ensure equitable opportunities to make healthy choices. Successful applicants will describe specific objectives that will be achieved through the initiatives supported by these cooperative agreements and will define metrics that will document progress toward the specified outcomes.
Carolyn Mulvihill
Environmental Protection Specialist
Environmental Review Office
U.S. EPA, Region 9
75 Hawthorne Street, CED-2
San Francisco CA 94105-3901
phone: (415) 947-3554
fax: (415) 947-8026
email: mulvihill.carolyn@epa.gov
Health and wellness are influenced by the homes, neighborhoods and communities in which people live, work and play. Good physical and mental health depend on factors outside of the public health and health care system, such as affordable and secure housing and sustainable and economically vital neighborhoods that provide access to employment opportunities and public resources The overarching purpose of this program is to prevent heart attack, strokes, cancer and other leading causes of death or disability through evidence and practice-based policy, environmental, programmatic, and infrastructure changes in states, large counties, tribes and territories. Applicants should define and justify concrete, achievable targets for these objectives for their area. More specifically, in part, the purpose of this program is to create healthier communities by 1) building capacity to implement broad evidence and practice-based policy, environmental, programmatic and infrastructure changes, as appropriate, in large counties, and in states, tribes and territories, including in rural and frontier areas
This announcement is only for non-research activities supported by CDC. If research is proposed, the application will not be reviewed. For the definition of research, please see the CDC Web site at the following Internet address:
http://www.cdc.gov/od/science/integrity ... search.pdf
Applicants MUST designate the specific category (Category A – Capacity Building or Category B – Implementation) for which they are applying. Applicants MAY NOT apply for more than one specific category.
Capacity Building recipients may pilot one or more implementation activities with their awarded funds, as their capacity to do so permits. The intent of this component is to fund recipients who represent areas that have limited or no experience implementing policy, environmental, programmatic, and infrastructure changes, as appropriate, but are ready to develop the capacity necessary to do so. Capacity Building recipients will develop the human capital, skills, partnerships, and infrastructure, as appropriate, to implement the activities required by an Implementation award. Capacity Building recipients will be eligible to apply for Implementation funding as additional funding becomes available during the five-year cooperative agreement funding cycle, once all target capacities as agreed upon by CDC and the recipient have been met.
Implementation recipients will implement policy, environmental, programmatic and infrastructure changes consistent with the strategic directions listed in this FOA. Funding from this component of the announcement will be provided to highly qualified recipients with among the highest documented burdens of chronic disease and with the following experience and support in place: one or more active coalitions and demonstrated success or experience working with state, community, tribal or territorial leaders, as appropriate, to implement policy, environmental, programmatic, and infrastructure change strategies; demonstrated effective efforts (including documented evaluations) to reduce health disparities; and demonstrated ability to meet reporting requirements such as programmatic, financial, and management benchmarks as required by the FOA.
Applicants should incorporate the overarching “Healthy People 2020” goals in plans and strategies. These include:
• Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
• Achieve health equity, eliminate health disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
• Create healthy and safe physical environments that promote good health for all.
• Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors across all life stages.
Recipients must ensure that planning and implementation activities reach the entire population and specific population subgroups, identified by the applicant, with documented health disparities within the geographic area. Health disparities represent preventable differences in the burden of disease, disability, injury and violence, or in opportunities to achieve optimal health. Recipients will engage populations that are facing health disparities in a variety of settings to make the healthy choice the easy choice, and ensure equitable opportunities to make healthy choices. Successful applicants will describe specific objectives that will be achieved through the initiatives supported by these cooperative agreements and will define metrics that will document progress toward the specified outcomes.
Carolyn Mulvihill
Environmental Protection Specialist
Environmental Review Office
U.S. EPA, Region 9
75 Hawthorne Street, CED-2
San Francisco CA 94105-3901
phone: (415) 947-3554
fax: (415) 947-8026
email: mulvihill.carolyn@epa.gov