FY 2010 WIC BF Peer Counseling Curriculum Update and Training

Post Date

June 18th 2010

Application Due Date

August 20th 2010

APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5 pm (EDT) on August 20, 2010

Funding Opportunity Number

USDA-FNS-WICBF-10

CFDA Number(s)

10.557

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Agriculture

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

Only non-profit organizations and Educational Institutions currently involved in the provision of breastfeeding education, training, or curriculum development and WIC State agencies are eligible to apply. FNS will not consider applications from entities that do not fit these eligibility criteria

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $350000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $350000

Grant Description

The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) will fund a competitive cooperative agreement award of up to $350,000 in Fiscal Year 2010 to a qualified applicant to: (1) update two existing FNS breastfeeding peer counseling training curricula and (2) coordinate and conduct trainings, based on each of the updated curricula, in a, train-the-trainer format for WIC State agency staff in each of the seven FNS geographic regions. The existing FNS curricula to be updated;Using Loving Support to Manage Peer Counseling Programs for training WIC program managers and also; Loving Support Through Peer Counselor for training peer counselors can be found at: http://www.nal.usda.gov/wicworks/Learning_Center/support_peer.html.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Agriculture

• Office:

  Food and Nutrition Service

• Agency Contact:

  Carla Garcia
  Grant Officer
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Grant Officer

• Agency Email Address:

  carla.garcia@fns.usda.gov

• More Information:

  RFA Weblink and Announcement