Deadline: March 17, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $75,000 per year for up to five years
Match: Yes, 200% or 1:2 match is required
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: The program goal is to support community-based projects to improve access to one or more of the following in underserved communities:
• Children’s behavioral health screening and referrals.
• Children’s immunizations.
• Adolescents’ well-visits.
The program objectives to be accomplished during the period of performance include:
• Implement an evidence-informed or evidence-based preventive clinical or public health community-based project with at least one measurable outcome that aligns with your selected child health topic.
• Build or strengthen at least three partnerships with maternal and child health (MCH) programs, including one partnership with a HRSA Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant recipient.
• Engage people with lived experience in the advisory board and project activities.
• Develop a sustainability plan to support MCH population health improvements that includes at least three community partnerships and at least one funding strategy.