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Cooperative Agreements for Child Welfare Technical Assistance

WHAT: The purpose of this program announcement is to establish, by awarding cooperative agreements, five regional Child Welfare Technical Assistance Implementation Centers (Implementation Centers). Guided by a Systems of Care (SOC) approach and informed by the Children's Bureau's (CB) monitoring reviews, Implementation Centers will fill a gap in CB's existing Training and Technical Assistance Network (T/TA Network). Implementation Centers will pilot a new, complementary approach to technical assistance (TA) by expanding the T/TA Network and enhancing its ability to provide in-depth and long-term consultation and support to States and Tribe WHO: Faith-based and community organizations are eligible to apply WHEN: Applications are due July 07, 2008 AWARD AMOUNT: 5 awards totaling $7,050,000 CONTACT: Jan Shafer Jan.Shafer@acf.hhs.gov FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-ACYF-CO (Source: CFBCI Weekly)

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-Vulnerable Populations Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships forge relationships between RWJF and local grant makers to fund promising, original projects that can significantly improve the health of vulnerable people in their communities. Local grant makers propose a funding partnership by nominating community initiatives that offer creative solutions to critical health or health care problems. RWJF invites grant making organizations including independent and private foundations, family and community foundations, corporate foundations and other philanthropies to recommend projects for this funding partnership. Application Deadline: July 8, 2008

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Evidence for Improvement: Evaluating Quality Improvement Training Programs

Public health and health care workers have many opportunities to acquire quality improvement (QI) training. However, limited evidence exists about whether and how these training programs increase the ability of individuals to successfully engage in work to improve health and health care. Information about the impact of such programs on organizational culture and patient outcomes is also scarce. This information gap may lead to under-investment in effective QI training opportunities and over-investment in training that is not effective. This call for proposals solicits evaluations of existing QI training programs to produce evidence that will inform decision-making about whether and how to invest in QI training. Application Deadline: July 16, 2008 More details and how to apply

Healthy Homes Demonstration Program
The purpose of the Healthy Homes Demonstration Program is to develop, demonstrate, and promote cost-effective, preventive measures to correct multiple residential safety and health hazards that produce serious diseases and injuries in children and other sensitive subgroups such as the elderly, with a particular focus on low income households. The Healthy Homes Demonstration Program is committed to supporting the Departmental Strategic Goal of strengthening communities by addressing housing conditions that threaten health. HUD anticipates that approximately $4,375,000 in fiscal year 2008 and prior year funds will be available. Approximately four to five cooperative agreements will be awarded for a maximum of $875,000 each for the entire period of performance. Eligible applicants include not-for-profit institutions and for-profit firms, state and local governments, housing authorities, federally-recognized Indian Tribes, and colleges and universities located in the United States. For-profit firms are not allowed to make a profit from the project. Applications must be received no later than 11:59:59 pm eastern time on July 17, 2008. (Source: Norris Consulting)

ADA Foundation: Samuel Harris Fund for Children’s Dental Health
The ADA Foundation has a permanent endowment fund dedicated to the prevention of childhood caries and oral health for children. The Harris Fund will award competitive grants of up to $5,000 to applicants whose oral health promotion programs are designed to improve and maintain children's oral health through community education and outreach programs. The grant program’s main objective is to help children whose socio-economic status impacts on their access to professional oral care and adversely affects their oral health habits at home. The program philosophy seeks to increase access to, and education on, oral health care by encouraging volunteerism in the health professions community. By also encouraging synergy between community based applicants and awardees, the grant program seeks to pool limited resources within dentistry, industry and public charities to significantly reduce the level of children’s oral disease through education. Through this effort, the program assists in the dissemination of oral health promotion activities to aid those children most at risk. Applications must be received by July 17, 2008. (Source: Norris Consulting)

Physician Faculty Scholars
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholars program is designed to strengthen the leadership and academic productivity of junior medical school faculty who are dedicated to improving health and health care. Under the program, scholars receive funds to support a research project, mentoring by nationally recognized leaders, protected time, networking and the opportunity to gain valuable research experience. Application Deadline: Aug. 29, 2008

Improving Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Interventions and Programs in Low Income Adult Populations (R21)

WHAT: This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), encourages research grant applications for projects designed to improve outcomes of smoking cessation in low income adult populations within the United States. Despite significant progress in reducing the prevalence of smoking in the United States, smoking continues to represent a major threat to public health. The long-term goal is to facilitate a significant reduction in smoking prevalence among low-income adults, thereby reducing the excess disease burden of tobacco use within these groups and decreasing the prevalence of smoking in the United States as a whole. WHO: Faith-based and community organizations are eligible to apply. WHEN: Applications are due by November 24, 2008. AWARD AMOUNT: Four to six awards amounting up to $1,500,000. CONTACT: NIH OER Webmaster, FBOWebmaster@OD.NIH.GOV FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-08-023.html (Source CFBCI Weekly)

Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation (CTOT) WHAT: The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) invites new or renewal applications from groups of two (2) or more institutions to participate in the Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation (CTOT) consortium, a cooperative investigative group that will conduct multi-site clinical trials (Phase 1, 2, or 3) or observational clinical studies with associated studies of immunologic mechanisms, in recipients of thoracic and abdominal organ transplants. Research supported under this FOA will focus on studying the immune-mediated pathologic processes associated with organ transplantation, with the goal of improving the long-term outcome of recipients of thoracic and abdominal organ transplants. -Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the Cooperative Agreement (U01) grant mechanism. -Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards. The NIAID intends to commit a total of approximately $7 million to this initiative, and anticipate making 3 to 4 awards through this announcement. Awards issued under this FOA are contingent upon the availability of funds and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications. WHO: Faith-based and community organizations are eligible to apply. WHEN: Applications are due by October 21, 2008. AWARD: Up to $7,000,000. CONTACT: NIH OER Webmaster, FBOWebmaster@OD.NIH.GOV FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-08-015.html (Source CFBCI Weekly)

Pilot Clinical Trials of Pharmacotherapies for Substance Related Disorders (R01) WHAT: The purpose of this FOA is to support pilot clinical studies of medications for investigation as possible treatments for Substance Related Disorders (SRDs). Because the purpose of this FOA is to support pilot studies, preliminary studies are not required. This FOA does not support clinical studies of nicotine or alcohol related disorders, except as co-morbid disorders with other SRDs. NIDA expects to receive grant applications for clinical research on medications for which some theoretical or limited preclinical or clinical information exists for investigation as possible treatments of individual SRDs, combinations of them (i.e., cocaine and alcohol use, cocaine and cannabis use) or comorbid with other psychiatric disorders, but which are not ready to be tested in a large and expensive randomized clinical trial. This FOA will not accept proposals that involve preclinical studies. NIDA will not accept applications testing medications that have already demonstrated safety and efficacy for the target disorder. Therefore, there must be a strong rationale for the medications proposed for testing, but no preclinical or clinical data are required or expected. WHO: Faith-based and community organizations are eligible to apply. WHEN: Applications are due by October 23, 2008. AWARD: Up to $3, 000, 000. CONTACT: Webmaster, FBOWebmaster@OD.NIH.GOV FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-09-005.html (Source CFBCI Weekly)

Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging (P30) WHAT: This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) solicits Research and Development Center (P30) grant applications in the areas of demography and economics of aging, including relevant interdisciplinary areas rooted in population-based social science research. Center grant applications must include two mandatory cores and may choose among four optional cores. -Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the Research and Development Center (P30) grant mechanism. -Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards. NIA expects to make 8-13 awards totaling $6.6 million total costs in the first year, and $33 million total costs over the 5 year project period. WHO: Faith-based and community organizations are eligible to apply. WHEN: Applications are due by October 30, 2008. AWARD: Up to $4,400,000. CONTACT: FBOWebmaster@OD.NIH.GOV FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-09-005.html (Source CFBCI Weekly)

Parenting Capacities and Health Outcomes in Youths and Adolescents (R01) WHAT: Purpose. This program announcement solicits research applications aimed at increasing the parenting skills and capacities of parents and caregivers to improve the health outcomes of their young and adolescent children. This is important because childhood, and particularly adolescence, is a time for the development of health habits that can last a lifetime. Moreover, adolescence is a transitional period during which experimentation and high-risk health behaviors may be displayed. The long-term consequences of health habits and behaviors often become manifest in young adulthood and adulthood. Against this backdrop, it is well documented that the probability of children and adolescents acquiring non-optimal health behaviors and developmental problems increases significantly when their adult caregivers exhibit ineffective parenting skills and practices. Thus, interventions to increase parenting skills and capacities and reduce high-risk behaviors should involve both parents and their children. Interventions targeting two or more risk factors that indicate ineffective parenting practices (e.g., lack of appropriate parental monitoring, supervision, and communication, high family conflict and disorganization, parental stress and depression, lack of parent-child bonding and negative discipline methods) that simultaneously focus on multiple high-risk adolescent health behaviors (e.g., unhealthy dietary behaviors, inadequate physical activity, tobacco use, alcohol and other drug use, sexual behaviors, and unintentional (e.g., accidents) and intentional behaviors (e.g., firearm related injuries), are fundamental to this initiative. Interventions that target the reduction of a broad range of family risk factors and simultaneously build upon protective factors are highly encouraged. Parents and similarly situated caregivers of children 10-to-18 years of age are the targets of this initiative. WHO: Faith-based and community organizations are eligible to apply. WHEN: Closing date – January 3, 2009 CONTACT: Brian Albertini at (301) 594-6869 or Albertib@mail.nih.gov FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-061.html

Health Disparities in HIV/AIDS: Focus on African Americans (R03)

WHAT: Purpose. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage drug abuse and mental health research to better understand the disparities in HIV/AIDS in minority populations, particularly among African Americans, who as a group, have experienced exceptionally high rates of new HIV infections and worse survival rates than other ethnic/racial groups in this country. Drug abuse research on HIV among African-Americans is encouraged to elucidate the relationship between drug use, abuse, and dependence on the incidence and prevalence of HIV/AIDS and AIDS-related morbidity and mortality; to develop effective, culturally sensitive prevention, intervention, and treatment programs for drug abuse and HIV/AIDS; and to understand the nexus of drug abuse, criminal justice involvement, and HIV/AIDS. Research on mental health issues in HIV risk and HIV infection among African Americans is encouraged on determinants of risk taking in a variety of contexts, the impact of neuropsychiatric co-morbidities associated with HIV, development of a spectrum of culturally appropriate HIV interventions targeting mental health aspects, testing of behavioral interventions for their sustainability and translation to real-world settings, and improvement of mental health and HIV service utilization. -Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the NIH Small Research Grant (R03) award mechanism and runs in parallel with a FOA of identical scientific scope, PA-07-116, that solicits applications under the R01 mechanism and PA-07-289, that solicits applications under the R21 mechanism. -The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology. WHO: Faith-based and community organizations are eligible to apply. WHEN: Closing date – January 3, 2009 AWARD CEILING: See full announcement CONTACT: Deborah S. Wertz at (301) 443-6710 or dwertz@nida.nih.gov FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-290.html

Standing Announcement for the Ethnic Community Self-Help Program

WHAT: The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) invites the submission of applications for funding, on a competitive basis, to connect newcomer refugees and their communities with community resources. The objective of this program is to strengthen organized ethnic communities comprised and representative of refugee populations to ensure ongoing support and services to refugees after initial resettlement. This announcement replaces the Priority Area Three - Ethnic Community Self-Help program included in the Standing Announcement for Services for Recently Arrived Refugees published in the Federal Register on April 23, 2004. The Director will observe March 24, 2008, as the first closing date for applications. Thereafter, the Director will observe February 24, 2009 and February 24, 2010 as the closing dates for applications. WHO: Faith-based and community organizations are eligible to apply WHEN: Applications are due March 24, 2009 AWARD AMOUNT: 8 awards totaling $600,000 CONTACT: Thomas Giossi Thomas.Giossi@acf.hhs.gov FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-ORR-RE0117.html

Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R01)

WHAT: Purpose. Diet and physical activity are lifestyle and behavioral factors that play a role in the etiology and prevention of many chronic diseases such as cancer and coronary heart disease. Both also play roles in preventing overweight/obesity and in maintaining weight loss. Therefore, diet and physical activity are assessed for both surveillance and epidemiologic/clinical research purposes. The measurement of usual dietary intake or physical activity over varying time periods or in the past, by necessity, has relied on self-report instruments. Such subjective reporting instruments are cognitively difficult for respondents, and are prone to considerable measurement errors that may vary among population subgroups and depend on the time frame considered and the characteristics of the respondents. -The National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director (OD) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), are interested in promoting innovative research to enhance the quality of measurements of dietary intake and physical activity. Applications submitted under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) may include development of: novel assessment approaches and/or better methods to evaluate instruments assessment tools for culturally diverse populations across various age groups including older adults; improved technologies and/or applications of existing technologies; and/or statistical methods to assess or correct for measurement errors or biases. -Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the NIH Research Project Grant (R01) award mechanism and runs in parallel with an FOA of identical scientific scope, PAR-06-103, that solicits applications under the Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) award mechanism. WHO: Faith-based and community non-governmental organizations are eligible to apply. WHEN: Closing date – May 2, 2009 (See full announcement for multiple due dates) AWARD AMOUNT: See full announcement CONTACT: Crystal Wolfrey at (301) 496-8634 or crystal.wolfrey@nih.gov FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-259.html

Research on Malignancies in the Context of HIV/AIDS

WHAT: Purpose. The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to advance our understanding of the risks, development, progression, diagnosis, and treatment of malignancies observed in individuals with an underlying Human Immunodeficiency (HIV) infection or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Through this FOA, the NCI and NIDCR seek to encourage research in areas such as the study of the etiologic factors, cofactors, pathogenesis, and consequences of HIV-associated malignancies in [the members of] diverse populations. Research on non-AIDS defining malignancies in the context of HIV infection is also encouraged. The incidence of non-AIDS-defining malignancies (e.g., anal, skin, and lung cancers as well as Hodgkin s disease) appear to be increasing in the era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatment (HAART). This FOA extends to research efforts that will (i) provide information on the clinical outcomes of such cancers in the HIV-infected population and (ii) identify specific contributions resulting from HIV infection for the development and pathogenesis of these cancers. Ultimately, such efforts could inform screening approaches and therapies targeted to the HIV-infected population. WHO: Faith-based and community organizations are eligible to apply. WHEN: Applications are due by September 7, 2010 AWARD AMOUNT: See full announcement CONTACT: mailto:domingug@mail.nih.gov FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: PA-07-455: Research on Malignancies in the Context of HIV/AIDS (R01) (Source: CFBCI Weekly Digest)

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