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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration

 

Special Project Grants; Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services; 
Community Integrated Service Systems (CISS) Set-Aside Program

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

ACTION: Notice of availability of funds.

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SUMMARY: The Health Resource and Services Administration is announcing 
the availability of fiscal year 1995 funds for a limited competition 
for Community Integrated Service Systems (CISS) Home Visiting for At-
Risk Families (HVAF) grants. The purpose of the CISS/HVAF is to assist 
State Maternal and Child Health (MCH) programs to support development 
and expansion of successful community integrated service strategies. 
Projects funded under this initiative are expected to emphasize the 
home visiting model as an important component of care. The CISS/HVAF 
grants will be used to support the development of enhanced health 
components in States' Administration for Children and Families' (ACF) 
Five-Year State Plans for Family Preservation and Family Support (FP/
FS) Services. These Five-Year Plans, being developed under Title IV-B 
of the Social Security Act, are part of the Family Preservation and 
Family Support (FP/FS) Services programs authorized under the Omnibus 
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (P.L. 103-66). The CISS/HVAF grants 
will complement planning activities supported by the HRSA and the ACF 
to promote State efforts to develop comprehensive systems of services 
which meet both the health and welfare needs of families. Awards will 
be made under the program authority of section 502(b)(1)(A) of the 
Social Security Act, the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant 
CISS Set-Aside Program.
    Competition is limited to the eleven States and jurisdictions 
currently without CISS/HVAF grants. In FY 1994, 50 of the 56 eligible 
States and Jurisdictions applied for CISS/HVAF grants and 45 were 
funded. With this notice, HRSA is offering the remainder the 
opportunity to participate in this initiative. They constitute the 
universe of remaining eligible applicants that were either disapproved 
last year or did not apply. The eleven States and jurisdictions are: 
New Jersey; Virgin Islands; West Virginia; Tennessee; Mississippi; 
North Carolina; Texas; California; American Samoa; Guam; and the 
Northern Mariana Islands.
    Grants/Amounts: Up to $550,000 will be available to support up to 
eleven new projects in an amount up to $50,000 per award for the 
project period. Project periods are for nine months, beginning January 
1, 1995.
    Eligibility: Eligibility for funding is limited to a single 
application from each of eleven specified States and Jurisdictions 
which has been approved to receive FY 1994 funding under Title IV-B, 
Subpart 2 of the Social Security Act: Family Preservation and Support 
Services, and which has not been approved to receive funds under the 
CISS/HVAF grant program. State Title V/Title IV-B agency partnerships 
are especially encouraged, with State Child Welfare and Maternal and 
Child Health agencies acting either as co-applicants or collaborating 
in the identification of the applicant. The application must be jointly 
developed and the project must be jointly implemented by both programs.

ADDRESSES: Grant applications must be submitted to: Chief, Grants 
Management Branch, Office of Program Support, Maternal and Child Health 
Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, Room 18-12, 
Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857, (301) 
443-1440. Applicants for these projects will use application Form PHS 
5161-1, with revised facesheet DHHS Form 424, approved by OMB under 
control number 0937-0189.

DATES: The application deadline date is December 1, 1994. Eligible 
applicants have been notified as of October 31, 1994. This notice will 
inform the public of this grant award competition.
    Competing applications will be considered to be on time if they are 
either:
    (1) received on or before the deadline date, or
    (2) postmarked on or before the deadline date and received in time 
for orderly processing. (Applicants should request a legibly dated 
receipt from a commercial carrier or U.S. Postal Service postmark or 
obtain a legibly dated receipt from a commercial carrier or U.S. Postal 
Service. Private metered postmarks shall not be acceptable as proof of 
timely mailing.
    Late competing applications not accepted for processing or those 
sent to an address other than indicated in the ADDRESSES section will 
be returned to the applicant.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For programmatic or technical 
information on MCH issues, contact Mr. Stuart Swayze, 5600 Fishers 
Lane, Room 18A-39, telephone: 301 443-4026. For information concerning 
business management issues, contact Ms. Arlethia Dawson, Grants 
Management Branch, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Room 18-12, 
Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland, telephone: 
301 443-1440.

Provision of Smoke-Free Workplace

    The Public Health Service strongly encourages all grant recipients 
to provide a smoke-free workplace and promote the non-use of all 
tobacco products. This is consistent with the PHS mission to protect 
and advance the physical and mental health of the American people.

Public Health System Reporting Requirements

    This program is subject to the Public Health System Reporting 
Requirements (approved under OMB No. 0937-0195). Under these 
requirements, the community-based nongovernmental applicant must 
prepare and submit a Public Health System Impact Statement (PHSIS). The 
PHSIS is intended to provide information to State and local health 
officials to keep them apprised of proposed health services grant 
applications submitted by community-based nongovernmental organizations 
within their jurisdictions.
    Community-based nongovernmental applicants are required to submit 
the following information to the head of the appropriate State and 
local health agencies in the area(s) to be impacted no later than the 
Federal application receipt due date:
    (a) A copy of the face page of the application (SF 424).
    (b) A summary of the project (PHSIS), not to exceed one page, which 
provides:
    (1) A description of the population to be served.
    (2) A summary of the services to be provided.
    (3) A description of the coordination planned with the appropriate 
State and local health agencies.

Executive Order 12372

    The MCH Block Grant has been determined to be a program which is 
not subject to the provisions of Executive Order 12372 concerning 
intergovernmental review of Federal programs.

    The OMB Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number is 93.110.

    Dated: November 29, 1994.
Ciro V. Sumaya,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 94-29769 Filed 12-2-94; 8:45 am]
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