Bright Futures Pediatric Implementation Cooperative Agreement

Post Date

September 6th 2011

Application Due Date

November 1st 2011

Funding Opportunity Number

HRSA-12-068

CFDA Number(s)

93.110

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Health

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

State Governments
County Governments
City or Township Governments
Special District Governments
Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
Federally Recognized Native American Tribal Governments
Non-Federally Recognized Native American Tribal Organizations
Non-Profits With 501 (c) (3) Status With The IRS (Except Higher Education Institutions)
Private Institutions of Higher Education
For-Profit Organizations (Except Small Businesses)
Small Businesses
Other
Unrestricted

As cited in 42 CFR Part 51a.3(a), any public or private entity, including an Indian tribe or tribal organization (as defined at 25 U.S.C. 450b) is eligible to apply for Federal funding under this part. Faith-based and community-based organizations are eligible to apply for these grants. Applicants must demonstrate significant experience with health promotion and preventive health services for infants, children and adolescents, particularly with the development and implementation of clinical guidelines for delivering such services, as well as the ability to access and engage significant numbers of pediatric health care providers at the national, state and local levels.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $1176000

• Award Range:

  $None - $None

Grant Description

The purpose of the Bright Futures Pediatric Implementation (BFPI) cooperative agreement is to improve the quality of health promotion and preventive services for all infants, children, adolescents, and their families, including children with special health care needs, through the effective national implementation of the Bright Futures Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children and Adolescents, Third Edition and subsequent editions. The primary focus of this cooperative agreement is on the implementation of Bright Futures-identifying opportunities and engaging key partners to leverage improvements in health promotion and prevention, developing and implementing strategies and tools and assessing their effectiveness, and taking effective strategies to scale. The tasks set forth in this cooperative agreement funding opportunity announcement include maintaining and updating Bright Futures Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children and Adolescents. These activities will be undertaken only through close consultation with MCHB. The goals of Bright Futures are to: 1) promote desired social, developmental, and health outcomes of infants, children, and adolescents; 2) enhance health care professionals' knowledge, skills, and practice of developmentally appropriate health care, emphasizing health promotion and prevention, in the context of family and community; 3) increase family knowledge, skills, and participation in health-promoting and prevention activities; and 4) foster partnerships between families, health professionals, public health and the broader community to promote children's health. The awardee, working closely with MCHB and other partners, will provide national leadership to address all four of the above goals. This will require, but not be limited to: 1) maintaining and updating the Bright Futures Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children and Adolescents, and related materials and tools, in response to changing standards and new scientific knowledge and ensuring wide dissemination and ready access to those guidelines and materials by health care and public health professionals, families, health professions educators, policymakers, payers and others. 2) developing, implementing, evaluating, and taking to scale innovative strategies and tools to foster the use of Bright Futures by multidisciplinary providers of pediatric clinical care, including oral health care, in a variety of settings; by public health professionals; and by families and communities; 3) fostering the integration of Bright Futures into the education and training of health care providers in multiple disciplines, including oral health and public health, at the pre-service and continuing education levels; and 4) improving the evidence base for health promotion and preventive services for infants, children and adolescents by supporting early career pediatric clinical investigators.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Health and Human Services

• Office:

  Health Resources and Services Administration

• Agency Contact:

  CallCenter@HRSA.GOV
  CallCenter@HRSA.GOV
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Contact HRSA Call Center at 877-Go4-HRSA/877-464-4772;301-998-7373 or email

• Agency Email Address:

  CallCenter@HRSA.GOV

• More Information:

  https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?ID=6F284E0C-C57B-4B68-8D2B-754A9CF81D17