Deadline: 13-Mar-23
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) announces the availability of funds to implement the National Asian Language Tobacco Quitline.
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) will award one applicant to operate and promote a linguistically and culturally appropriate nationwide quitline service for individuals who use commercial tobacco products and predominantly speak Chinese (including Cantonese and Mandarin), Korean, and Vietnamese (CKV) languages. Some populations of Asian descent experience disparities in smoking prevalence and access to cessation treatments in the United States. Traditional state quitline services have not adequately met the needs of callers who predominantly speak CKV languages. NOFO strategies include improving quitline infrastructure to ensure efficiency and capacity, enhancing quitline sustainability, leveraging partnerships and expanding reach and range of available quit support services through the quitline, conducting strategic efforts to increase use of available quit support services through the quitline, and conducting surveillance and evaluation activities for quitline services.
Funding Information
- Total Funding: $4,500,000
- Average One Year Award Amount: $900,000
- Total Period of Performance Length: 5 year(s)
- Estimated Award Date: March 29, 2023
Outcomes
The expected outcomes to be achieved by the end of the period of performance include:
- Increased use and reach of evidence-based and culturally appropriate quit support services among CKV-speaking people, such as counseling, FDA-approved medications, and digital technologies, such as text, web, and chat
- Increased quit attempts among CKV-speaking people, including attempts using evidence based tobacco use and dependence treatment services
- Increased successful cessation at greater than 6 months among CKV-speaking people who use commercial tobacco
Activities
- Improve quitline infrastructure to ensure efficiency and capacity
- Leverage partnerships and expand reach and range of available quit support services through the quitline
- Conduct strategic efforts to increase use of available quit support services through the quitline
- Conduct evaluation activities for quitline services
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants:
- State governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Unrestricted
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- County governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Independent school districts
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Additional Information on Eligibility:
- The award ceiling for this NOFO is $900,000. CDC will consider any application requesting an award higher than this amount as non-responsive and it will receive no further review.
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