Deadline: 1/5/22

Amount: Up to $96,750 per award subject

Website: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=334424

Description:

Funding is available for community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, tribes, and tribal organizations to provide services to children with special health care needs. Applicants are advised that required registrations may take several weeks to complete. The purpose of the program is to promote optimal health and well-being for Children & Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) and their families by advancing a well-functioning system of services.

The purpose of the Family-to-Family Health Information Centers (F2F HICs) grant program is to provide information, education, technical assistance, and peer support to families of CYSHCN and the professionals who serve them.

Program Goal: The goal of the F2F HIC program is to promote optimal health and well-being for CYSHCN and their families by advancing a well-functioning system of services in which families and health professionals partner in health care decision-making. Recipients funded under this program are expected to integrate the following Family/Professional Partnership Program principles throughout project policies and activities:

CYSHCN and their families should receive care in systems that are

(1) family-centered,

(2) culturally and linguistically appropriate, and

(3) promoting shared decision-making between families of CYSHCN, health professionals, and appropriate state and community organizations.

Program Objectives: The recipient will be responsible for collecting data and reporting annually on these objectives for the purposes of monitoring and evaluating the overall effectiveness of the program. Baselines for new recipients will be established for these measures within the first year of the award. Competing continuing recipients will use data from the last year (FY 2021) of the most recent award cycle as their baseline.

Eligible applicants:

Eligible applicants include any domestic public or private entity. Domestic faith-based and community-based organizations, tribes, and tribal organizations are eligible to apply. Eligibility for this funding opportunity is limited to applicants within the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the 5 U.S. Territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) and entities that will serve American Indian and/or Alaska Native Tribes.

PROGRAM CONTACTS

Hazel N. Booker, Grants Management Specialist

Health Resources & Services Administration

(301)-443-4236, NBooker@hrsa.gov

Jessica Teel, Senior Public Health Analyst

Division of Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Attn: Family-to-Family Health Information Centers

(301)-945-5133, jteel@hrsa.gov