Minority AIDS Initiative Project
Grant: Minority AIDS Initiative Project: Targeting Youth at Highest Risk for HIV, Other STD and Teen Pregnancy Among Cooperative Agreement Recipients of RFA-DP08-801 Improving Health and Educational Outcomes of Young People
Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Division: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Deadline: August 23, 2010
Description: This competition is only open to 16 local education agencies (LEAs) who are currently receiving funding from a previous CDC program, Improving Health and Educational Outcomes of Young People.
The purpose of this supplemental solicitation is to increase the availability of school-based HIV, other sexually transmitted disease (STD) and teen pregnancy prevention communication programs targeting youth at highest risk that leverage the expertise and reach of schools but are delivered outside the traditional health education classroom. The solicitation will fund LEAs to create and implement prevention education communication strategies, including new media strategies and strategies for outreach to after-school programs or clubs, targeting youth at highest risk for HIV, other STDs and teen pregnancy. New media is defined as electronic interactive media, such as text messaging, social networking websites and applications, and computer multimedia. Strategies should include the following:
- New media communication technology delivered in non-classroom settings.
- Outreach to after-school programs or clubs such as Gay-Straight Alliances and/or community-based organizations such as churches, youth centers, runaway and homeless youth shelters and/or juvenile detention centers.
Applicants must ensure that proposed activities enhance and complement the workplan they developed for the Improving Health and Educational Outcomes of Young People program.
Fit for public broadcasting: Only LEAs who have received funding from the CDC's Improving Health and Educational Outcomes of Young People program are eligible to apply for this program. A list of those LEAs is below. Public broadcasting stations are, however, great partners for the LEAs who are eligible. This program requires the creation and use of interactive media and innovative communication strategies to conduct preventive health education; public broadcasting stations have this expertise. Furthermore, the relationships that public broadcasters have with other community entities will be helpful when targeting community-based after-school programs and clubs.
Eligibility: Only LEAs currently funded for HIV prevention education capacity building under the Improving Health and Educational Outcomes of Young People funding opportunity are eligible to apply for this supplemental award.
The currently funded LEAs are: Baltimore City Public School System, Broward County Public Schools, City of Chicago School District, Detroit Public Schools, Houston Independent School District, Los Angeles Unified School District, Memphis City Schools, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, New York City Department of Education, Newark Public Schools, Orange County Public Schools, The School District of Palm Beach County, The School District of Philadelphia, San Diego Unified School District, San Francisco Unified School District and Seattle Public Schools.
Anticipated funding: There is currently $400,000 available for this program. Between two and four 17-month awards will be made. The anticipated award date is September 30, 2010, and funded projects are expected to continue from that date until February 29, 2012.
How to apply: Applications must be submitted electronically on Grants.gov.
Resources:
Program notice
Eligible applicants must be recipients of this CDC grant.
