Affordable Care Act (aca) Prevention Center For Healthy Weight

 

The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Office of Planning, Analysis and Evaluation (OPAE) announced the availability of funding for a cooperative agreement in Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 to support the Prevention Center for Healthy Weight (PC) to plan, implement and manage a Healthy Weight Collaborative (HWC) as well as recruit and support approximately 50 community teams participating in the HWC. The authority for this program is Title V, Section 501(a)(2) Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 701) and Section 4002 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148).

Aligning with Administration and Departmental activities related to Healthy Weight and HRSA’s strategic plan, the mission of the HWC is to discover, develop, and disseminate evidence-based community-based and promising clinical interventions to prevent and treat obesity for children and families. The cooperative agreement awardee will do the following:

• Plan, implement, and manage the HWC;
• Provide technical assistance to community teams to improve approaches to prevent and treat overweight and obesity in their respective communities;
• Improve quality of care to prevent and treat overweight and obesity through understanding of quality improvement concepts, tools, and techniques;
• Support teams participating in the HWC; and
• Demonstrate a commitment to long-term sustainability of the project after the Federal period of support.

Deleted 03/03/2014 (Archived.) 93.522 Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Office: Health Resources and Services Administration Cooperative Agreements Fiscal Year 2012: No Current Data Available Fiscal Year 2013: No Current Data Available Fiscal Year 2014: No Current Data Available Title V, Section 501(a)(2) Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 701) and Section 4002 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148). Any public or private entity, including an Indian tribe or tribal organization (as those terms are defined at 25 USC 450(b)) is eligible to apply. See above for additional information. No Credentials or documentation are required. This program is excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-87. Preapplication coordination is not applicable. Environmental impact information is not required for this program. This program is excluded from coverage under E.O. 12372. OMB Circular No. A-102 applies to this program. OMB Circular No. A-110 applies to this program. All applicants are required to apply electronically through Grants.gov. All qualified applications will be forwarded to an objective review committee. Based on the advice of the objective review committee, the HRSA program official with delegated authority is responsible for final selection and funding decisions. Notification is made in writing by a Notice of Award. Contact the headquarters or regional office, as appropriate, for application deadlines. Approximately 3 months after receipt of applications. Not Applicable. Not Applicable. Competing applications are reviewed by nonfederal objective review panels for technical merit recommendations. Approval of an application will be based on an analysis of the factors set forth in the application. See Section V - Application Review Information in the funding opportunity announcement. The awardee will engage approximately 50 multi-sector, place-based teams from all over the country. At a minimum, these teams will represent primary care, public health, and those from other relevant sectors (e.g., schools, parks, housing, transportation, business). Teams will engage in a variety of activities and interventions to help local communities, states and other interested groups develop practical approaches that link public health and primary care to prevent and treat obesity for children and families. Using established quality improvement techniques, the Prevention Center will provide training and support to teams and track team progress on standardized measures.

The Collaborative will build on the Breakthrough Series methodology, a proven quality improvement approach for rapidly spreading successful changes pioneered by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. A web portal will facilitate communication within and between teams, as well as provide a vehicle to report and share data about progress. Teams will meet together, either face-to-face or virtually, three times each year, and will receive technical assistance from faculty with expertise in prevention and treatment of obesity and improvement science. Areas of the web site will be accessible to the general public, with information, tools and resources to help communities and families maintain or achieve a healthy weight. The Collaborative will proceed in two phases. In phase one, 10 teams with previous experience in cross-sector collaboration will participate in both in-person and virtual Learning Sessions. In phase two, approximately 40 additional teams will participate in an entirely virtual Collaborative. Funds may not be used to support the following: the delivery of health care services, construction, alteration or renovation. Status Reports:
1) Submit a Financial Report. A financial report is required within 90 days of the end of each budget period. It is submitted electronically through the HRSA EHBs. The report is an accounting of expenditures under the project that year. More specific information will be included in the award notice.
2) Submit a Progress Report(s). Further information will be provided in the award notice.
3) Submit a Final Report.
A final report is due within 90 days after the project period ends. The final report collects program-specific goals, core performance measurement data, awardee objectives and accomplishments, barriers encountered, and responses to summary questions regarding the awardee’s overall experiences over the entire project period. The final report must be submitted on-line by awardees in the Electronic Handbooks system at https://grants.hrsa.gov/webexternal/home.asp. Submit a quarterly electronic Federal Financial Report (FFR) Cash Transaction Report via the Payment Management System. The report identifies cash expenditures against the authorized funds for the cooperative agreement. The FFR Cash Transaction Reports must be filed within 30 days of the end of the quarter. Failure to submit the report may result in the inability to access award funds. Go to www.dpm.psc.gov for additional information. Further information will be provided in the award notice. A financial report is required within 90 days of the end of each budget period. It is submitted electronically through the HRSA EHBs. The report is an accounting of expenditures under the project that year. More specific information will be included in the award notice. Further information will be provided in the award notice. In accordance with the provisions of OMB Circular No. A-133 (Revised, June 27, 2003), "Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations," nonfederal entities that expend financial assistance of $500,000 or more in Federal awards will have a single or a program-specific audit conducted for that year. Nonfederal entities that expend less than $500,000 a year in Federal awards are exempt from Federal audit requirements for that year, except as noted in Circular No. A-133. Award recipients are required to maintain cooperative agreement accounting records 3 years after the date they submit the final Federal Financial Report. If any litigation, claim, negotiation, audit or other action involving the award has been started before the expiration of the 3-year period, the records shall be retained until completion of the action and resolution of all issues which arise from it, or until the end of the regular 3-year period, whichever is later. This program has no statutory formula.
This program has no matching requirements.
This program has MOE requirements, see funding agency for further details. Applicants responding to this announcement may request funding for a project and budget period of up to 30 months. See the following for information on how assistance is awarded/released: Awardee’s drawdown funds, as necessary, from the Payment Management System (PMS). PMS is the centralized web based payment system for HHS awards. See Regional Agency Offices. Eliza Heppner and Natasha Coulouris 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 14-57
, Rockville, Maryland 20857 Phone: (301) 443-8747 http://www.hrsa.gov 75-0350-0-1-550. (Salaries) FY 11 $0; FY 12 est $0; and FY 13 est $0 One Cooperative Agreement funded for $5,000,000. This program is subject to the provisions of 45 CFR Part 92 for State, local and tribal governments and 45 CFR Part 74 for institutions of higher education, hospitals, other nonprofit organizations and commercial organizations, as applicable.

HRSA awards are subject to the requirements of the HHS Grants Policy Statement (HHS GPS) that are applicable based on recipient type and purpose of award. The HHS GPS is available at http://www.hrsa.gov/grants.
Not Applicable.