Deadline: 11-Apr-23
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announces the availability of the fiscal year 2023 funds to implement Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH).
This 5-year program is to improve health, prevent chronic diseases, and reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic populations with the highest risk, or burden, of chronic disease, specifically for African Americans/Blacks, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islanders, American Indians, and Alaska Natives by:
- Supporting culturally tailored interventions to address to promote activities to decrease tobacco use, poor nutrition practices, and physical inactivity.
- Supporting implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of practice- and evidence-based strategies of tobacco, nutrition, and physical activity collaborations that ultimately lead to reduced health disparities in chronic conditions of hypertension, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, and obesity.
- Supporting activities to enhance capacity to educate and promote the importance of immunization among racial and ethnic minority populations.
- Linking community and clinical efforts to increase individual’s access to health care and preventive care programs within their community.
The NOFO supports evidence-based, culturally tailored interventions and activities for nutrition, and physical activity, and tobacco collaborations that ultimately lead to reduced health disparities in chronic conditions of hypertension; heart disease; Type 2 diabetes; and obesity, as well as vaccination activities to support the prevention of infectious diseases such as flu, COVID-19 and other adult diseases.
Funding will support recipients that:
- Have a history of successfully working with an established community coalitions to address issues relating to health.
- Select strategies that address the health disparities in the community based on results from a community health needs assessment.
- Have organizational capacity to effectively, efficiently, and immediately implement locally tailored evidence- and practice-based strategies.
Purpose
- This NOFO supports recipients working to implement evidence-based, culturally tailored strategies at the local level among specific racial ethnic priority populations.
- Component A focuses on nutrition; physical activity; continuity of care in breastfeeding;
- supporting national standards related to nutrition; physical activity; and breastfeeding in existing
- ECE programs; family healthy weight programs; and/or tobacco prevention and control policies.
- Component B focuses on flu, COVID-19 and other adult vaccination program awareness, demand, and access.
- Component A focuses on nutrition; physical activity; continuity of care in breastfeeding;
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $228,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,500,000
- Award Floor: $500,000.
This NOFO will fund two components.
- Component A (required): Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Other Applicants must propose work in three strategy areas, which include nutrition, physical activity plus one from the following options:
- Continuity of care in breastfeeding support
- Supporting national standards related to nutrition, physical activity, and breastfeeding in early care and education (ECE) programs
- Supporting implementation of family healthy weight programs
- Tobacco prevention and control policies
- Component B (optional): Adult Vaccinations
- As an optional component, applicants may propose work that focuses on flu, COVID-19, and other adult vaccination programs.
Outcomes
- Long-Term Outcomes:
- Improved health behaviors and outcomes (e.g., increased healthier food consumption, increased percentage of individuals meeting physical activity guidelines, decreased tobacco use, decreased obesity and increased adult immunizations)
- Reduced health disparities in chronic conditions (e.g., hypertension, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity) as well as immunizations.
- Period of Performance Outcomes
- Component A Short-Term Outcomes:
- Increased access to healthier foods
- Increased policies, plans, or community design changes that increase access to physical activity
- Increased access to programs that provide continuity of care for breastfeeding families
- Increased local level ECE policies and activities that improve nutrition, physical activity, and breastfeeding standards and Farm to ECE
- Increased supports to implement family healthy weight programs
- Increased access to places that adopt or strengthen commerical tobacco prevention and control policies
- Component B Short-Term Outcomes:
- Increased demand and access to vaccination opportunities.
Strategies and Activities
- The Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity’s mission is grounded by State and Local Strategies for healthy eating and active living. This NOFO is in alignment with DNPAO’s mission and its Priority Strategies:
- Make physical activity safe and accessible for all
- Make healthy food choices easier
- Make breastfeeding easier to start and sustain
- Strengthen obesity prevention standards in early care and education settings
- Spread and scale family healthy weight programs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Special district governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Unrestricted, subject to any clarification in text field entitled
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Independent school districts
- Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification)
- State governments
- County governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- City or township governments
- Small businesses.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
