[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 180 (Tuesday, September 17, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58610-58624]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-23555]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[Program Announcement 03004]


Improving the Health, Education, and Well-Being of Young People 
Through Coordinated School Health Programs; Notice of Availability of 
Funds

A. Purpose

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), announces the 
expected availability of fiscal year (FY) 2003 funds for cooperative 
agreements between CDC and state education agencies (SEA) and large 
city local education agencies (LEA) to improve the health, education, 
and well-being of young people through coordinated school health 
programs. This program announcement supports 15 health promotion and 
disease prevention objectives related to school-age youth in Healthy 
People 2010 and Strategy two of the CDC's HIV Prevention Strategic Plan 
Through 2005; and addresses at least the following specific outcome 
objectives:
    [sbull] Increase the proportion of adolescents (grades 9 thru 12) 
who abstain from sexual intercourse or use condoms if currently 
sexually active (with special emphasis on reaching youth of color).

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    [sbull] Reduce the proportion of adolescents (grades 9 thru 12) who 
have had multiple sex partners (with special emphasis on reaching youth 
of color).
    [sbull] Reduce the proportion of sexually active adolescents 
(grades 9 thru 12) who used alcohol or drugs before last sexual 
intercourse (with special emphasis on reaching youth of color).
    [sbull] Increase the proportion of adolescents (grades 9 thru 12) 
who consume at least five daily servings of fruits and vegetables.
    [sbull] Increase the proportion of adolescents (grades 9 thru 12) 
who engage in vigorous physical activity that promotes 
cardiorespiratory fitness three or more days per week for 20 minutes or 
more per occasion.
    [sbull] Reduce the proportion of adolescents who are at risk for 
being overweight or are overweight.
    [sbull] Reduce the proportion of adolescents (grades 9 thru 12) who 
smoke cigarettes or use other tobacco products.
    [sbull] Decrease the number of school days missed for youth with 
persistent asthma.
    [sbull] Increase the percentage of youth with persistent asthma who 
have asthma care plans on file at school.
    [sbull] Decrease the incidence of foodborne illnesses among youth.
    This program announcement also targets the Government Performance 
and Reporting Act (GPRA) Performance Goals of achieving and maintaining 
the percentage of high school students who are taught about HIV/AIDS 
prevention in school at ninety percent or greater.
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for 
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion is issuing this program 
announcement to support implementation and integration of current 
school health efforts (See the Logic Model for State-based School 
Health Programs and the Logic Model for Local Education Agency-based 
Programs in Attachment I), consolidate State and local education agency 
grant programs, simplify and streamline the grant pre-award and post-
award administrative process, measure performance related to each 
grantee's stated objectives, and identify and establish long-term goals 
of a school health program through stated performance measures. Some 
examples of the benefits of the streamlined process are: the semi-
annual progress report and budget will be used to process continuation 
applications; reporting expectations will be consistent across priority 
areas; and increased flexibility will be available within approved 
budget categories. This announcement will allow CDC to consider a 
higher level of funding for continuing programs based on annual 
performance and availability of funding. This announcement will also 
allow CDC to expand support for additional school health efforts (which 
may include, but not limited to programs to reduce school environmental 
hazards, unintentional injuries and violence, diabetes, Sexually 
Transmitted Disease (STD) infection and unplanned pregnancy, other 
infectious diseases, skin cancer, and stigma and complications from 
epilepsy; strengthen science education; improve oral health and 
childhood immunization; promote mental health; promote efforts to help 
youth abstain from sexual intercourse; prepare for possible 
unintentional emergencies (e.g., fires, tornadoes, or chemical spills) 
and intentional emergencies (e.g., biological, chemical, or physical 
threats); and support community-schools initiatives and CDC's National 
Youth Media Campaign) as funds become available.
    This program announcement covers four priority areas for State 
education agencies (SEA) and four priority areas for local education 
agencies (LEA). A SEA or LEA can apply for funding to address one or 
any combination of priority areas for which they are eligible.

SEA Priority 1: Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)

    The purpose of SEA Priority 1: YRBS is to establish or strengthen 
systematic procedures to monitor critical health behaviors of youth 
within the state through implementation of the Youth Risk Behavior 
Survey (YRBS).

SEA Priority 2-A: Coordinated School Health Programs (CSHP) and 
Reduction of Chronic Disease Risks

    The purpose of SEA Priority 2-A: CSHP and Reduction of Chronic 
Disease Risks is to build State education and health agency partnership 
and capacity to implement and coordinate school health programs across 
agencies and within schools. The expected outcome of this effort is to 
help schools reduce priority health risks among youth, especially those 
risks that contribute to chronic diseases. Initial funding is made 
available to specifically (1) reduce tobacco use and addiction, (2) 
improve eating patterns, (3) increase physical activity, and (4) reduce 
obesity among youth.

SEA Priority 2-B: State Demonstration Efforts (Asthma and Foodborne 
Illness)

    The purpose of Priority 2-B: State Demonstration Efforts is to 
develop or implement exemplary State-level policies and programs, to 
prevent priority health problems among school-age youth as part of a 
coordinated school health program, including sharing successful 
techniques, strategies, and lessons learned with other interested 
states and cities. These demonstration programs will serve as State 
models that other states throughout the nation might modify and 
implement within their own jurisdictions. Initial funding is made 
available to implement demonstration programs to help schools reducing 
foodborne illness and increasing awareness of food safety, and reduce 
asthma episodes and asthma-related absences.

SEA Priority 3: HIV Prevention for School-Age Youth

    The purpose of SEA Priority 3: HIV Prevention For School-age Youth 
is to strengthen state-level policies, programs, and support to help 
schools prevent sexual risk behaviors that result in HIV infection, 
especially among youth who are at highest risk.

SEA Priority 4: National Professional Development

    The purpose of SEA Priority 4: National Professional Development is 
to improve State strategies to reduce health problems among youth by 
planning and delivering learning opportunities for other interested 
states.

LEA Priority 1: Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)

    The purpose of LEA Priority 1: YRBS is to establish or strengthen 
systematic procedures to monitor critical health behaviors of youth 
within the local education agency area through implementation of the 
Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS).

LEA Priority 2: HIV Prevention For School-Age Youth

    The purpose of LEA Priority 2: HIV Prevention For School-age Youth 
is to strengthen local education agency policies, programs, and support 
to help schools prevent sexual risk behaviors that result in HIV 
infection, especially among youth who are at highest risk.

LEA Priority 3: Local Demonstration Efforts (Asthma)

    The purpose of LEA Priority 3: Local Demonstration Efforts is to 
develop or implement exemplary local education agency policies and 
programs to implement demonstration programs to help schools reduce 
priority risk behaviors and health problems. Initial funding is 
available to help schools reduce asthma episodes and asthma-

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related absences as part of a coordinated school health program, 
including sharing successful techniques, strategies, and lessons 
learned with other interested LEAs.

LEA Priority 4: National Professional Development

    The purpose of LEA Priority 4: National Professional Development is 
to improve school and community strategies to reduce health problems 
among youth by planning and delivering learning opportunities for other 
interested cities.
    This program announcement is separated into three sections. Section 
I describes information about SEA Priorities, including Authority, 
Eligible Applicants, Availability of Funds, and Program Requirements. 
Section II describes information about LEA Priorities, including 
Eligible Applicants, Availability of Funds, and Program Requirements. 
Section III provides application guidance for both SEAs and LEAs, and 
includes information about Application Content, Submission and 
Deadline, Evaluation Criteria, Reporting Requirements, Other Additional 
Requirements, and Where to Obtain Additional Information.

Special Guidelines for Technical Assistance

Conference Call
    Technical assistance will be available for potential applicants on 
three conference calls.
    The first call will be held particularly for the SEAs located in 
American Samoa, Guam, Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of 
the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the Northern Mariana 
Islands on September 26, 2002 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. (Eastern Time).
    The second call will be for eligible SEAs in the contiguous United 
States, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands and will be held on 
September 27, 2002 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. (Eastern Time).
    The third call will be eligible LEAs and will be held on October 1, 
2002 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Eastern Time).
    Potential applicants are requested to call in using only one 
telephone line. The conference can be accessed by calling 1-800-311-
3437 or 404-639-3277, and entering access code 318989. The purpose of 
the conference call is to help potential applicants to:
    1. Understand the scope and intent of the Program announcement.
    2. Be familiar with the Public Health Services funding policies and 
application and review procedures.
    Participation in this conference call is not mandatory. If you have 
problems accessing the conference call, please call 404-639-7550. 
Questions and answers from the conference call will be provided to all 
eligible applicants through e-mail communications.

Section I: State Education Agency (SEA)

B. Authority and Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

    This program is authorized under Sections 301(a), 311(b) and (c), 
and 317(k)(2) [42 U.S.C. 241(a), 243(b) and (c), and 247b(k)(2)] of the 
Public Health Service Act, as amended. The Catalog of Federal Domestic 
Assistance number is 93.938.

C. Eligible Applicants

    Eligible applicants for SEA Priorities 1, 2-A, 2-B, 3, and 4 are 
State education agencies (SEA) in the 50 states, American Samoa, Puerto 
Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the 
Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the 
Northern Mariana Islands.
    SEA applicants may apply for any or all SEA Priorities, with the 
following clarification. Those SEAs applying for SEA Priority 2 can 
choose to apply for Priority 2-A alone or for both Priorities 2-A and 
2-B. However, to be funded under Priority 2-B, the applicant must apply 
for and be approved for funding of Priority 2-A. To be awarded funds 
under SEA Priority 4, applicants must apply for and be funded under 
either Priority 2 or Priority 3 or both.
    If additional funds become available, CDC SEAs funded under 
Priority 3 will be eligible to apply for funds under this announcement 
to promote abstinence and prevent other STDs and unplanned pregnancy, 
and SEAs funded under Priority 2 will be eligible to apply for funds to 
address other health risks and programs.

    Note: Title 2 of the United States Code section 1611 states that 
an organization described in section 501(c)(4) of the Internal 
Revenue Code that engages in lobbying activities is not eligible to 
receive Federal funds constituting an award, grant or loan.

D. Availability of Funds

    It is anticipated that a total of approximately $21,830,000 will be 
available in FY 2003 to fund up to 58 SEAs (including territorial 
education agencies) for Priorities 1, 2-A, 2-B, and 3. In addition, 
approximately $1,275,000 will be available for up to a total of three 
SEAs or LEAs for Priority 4.

SEA Priority 1: YRBS

    Approximately $1,450,000 is expected to be available for SEA 
Priority 1. CDC expects to fund all eligible applicants that submit an 
acceptable application. Awards are expected to average $25,000.

SEA Priority 2-A: CSHP and Reduction of Chronic Disease Risks

    Approximately $7,380,000 is expected to be available for SEA 
Priority 2-A to fund approximately 18 SEAs. CDC expects to award each 
SEA an average of approximately $410,000.

SEA Priority 2-B: State Demonstration Efforts (Asthma and Foodborne 
Illness)

    Approximately $800,000 is expected to be available for SEA Priority 
2-B to fund approximately 5 SEAs to implement demonstration programs to 
help schools reduce foodborne illnesses and improve student awareness 
of food safety. In addition, approximately $200,000 is expected to be 
available to fund 1 SEA to implement a demonstration program to help 
schools reduce asthma episodes and asthma-related absences. Awards will 
average $175,000 and range from approximately $150,000 to $200,000.

SEA Priority 3: HIV Prevention for School-Age Youth

    Approximately $12,000,000 is expected to be available for SEA 
Priority 3. CDC expects to fund all eligible applicants that submit an 
acceptable application. Awards are expected to range from approximately 
$25,000 to $325,000. Award ranges will be as follows, based on 1999 
estimated student enrollment data as reported by the U.S. Department of 
Education, National Center for Education Statistics, April 2000:
    [sbull] SEAs in states with a student enrollment of 2,500,000 or 
more (California, New York and Texas) are eligible for an award range 
of approximately $225,000 to $325,000.
    [sbull] SEAs in states with a student enrollment less than 
2,500,000, but equal to or more than 1,500,000 (Florida, Illinois, 
Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania) are eligible for an award range of 
approximately $220,000 to $320,000.
    [sbull] SEAs in states with a student enrollment less than 
1,500,000, but equal to or more than 500,000 (Alabama, Arizona, 
Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, 
Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, 
Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, 
Washington, and Wisconsin) are eligible

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for an award range of approximately $150,000 to $250,000.
    [sbull] SEAs in states with a student enrollment less than 500,000, 
but equal to or more than 100,000 (Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, 
Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New 
Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, 
Vermont, and West Virginia) are eligible for an award range of 
approximately $125,000 to $225,000.
    [sbull] All other SEAs in states with a student enrollment less 
than 100,000 (American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, 
the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the 
Republic of Palau, the Virgin Islands, and Wyoming) are eligible for an 
award range of approximately $25,000 to $100,000.

SEA Priority 4: National Professional Development

    Approximately $1,275,000 is expected to be available for SEA 
Priority 4 to fund some combination of two to three SEAs or large city 
LEAs to implement national professional development. Awards will 
average $400,000 and will range from approximately $375,000 to 
$425,000.
    It is expected that all awards will begin on or about March 1, 
2003, with a 12-month budget period, within a project period of five 
years. Funding estimates may vary and are subject to change.
    Continuation awards within an approved project period will be made 
on the basis of satisfactory progress as evidenced by required reports 
and the availability of funds.
    Matching funds are not required for this program announcement.
Use of Funds
    Cooperative agreement funds may be used to support personnel and to 
purchase equipment, supplies and services (including travel) directly 
related to program activities and consistent with the scope of the 
program announcement. Funds under this program announcement may not be 
used to conduct research projects, provide direct delivery of patient 
care or treatment services, or purchase or disseminate condoms. 
Although public health may have an assurance role in clinical testing 
and screening, funds are not to be used to provide clinical testing or 
screening services. Federal funds awarded under this program 
announcement may not be used to supplant State or local funds.
    As part of the increased flexibility efforts, applicants are 
encouraged to maximize the public health benefit from the use of CDC 
funding within the approved budget line items to enhance the grantee's 
ability to achieve stated goals and objectives and to respond to 
changes in the field as they occur within the scope of the award. 
Recipients also have the ability to redirect up to 25 percent of the 
total approved budget to achieve stated goals and objectives within the 
scope of the award except from categories that require prior approval 
such as contracts, change in scope, and change in key personnel. A list 
of required prior approval actions will be included in the Notice of 
Cooperative Agreement Award.
    SEA applicants are encouraged to identify and take advantage of 
opportunities, which will enhance the recipient's work with other 
education agency and health department programs in their State that 
address risk factors and health problems described in SEA Priorities. 
This may include cost sharing to support a shared position to implement 
activities such as surveillance, health communication, professional 
development, health resources development, and evaluation, or to 
implement programs that cross units/departments within the State 
education and health agencies. This may include, but is not limited to, 
joint planning activities, joint funding of complementary school health 
activities based on program recipient activities, coalitions, combined 
development and implementation of policy and program interventions, and 
other cost sharing activities that complement school and youth-based 
program priorities funded by other CDC units. SEAs may determine that 
the State health agency can effectively implement important school 
health policies and programs and may choose to provide fiscal support 
for State health agency implementation through an interagency 
agreement.
    SEAs funded under priority 2A are expected to direct at least 
$100,000 to the State health agency to support staff positions and 
activities to promote coordination of school-related health programs 
within and across the health and education agencies.

E. Program Requirements

    In conducting activities to achieve the purpose of this program, 
SEA recipients will be responsible for the activities under 1. 
Recipient Activities, and CDC will be responsible for the activities 
listed under 2. CDC Activities.
    1. Recipient Activities for each SEA Priority are listed below. CDC 
has developed performance measures to evaluate recipients' progress in 
meeting the requirements. These performance measures are listed 
following the recipient activities listed for each priority.

SEA Priority 1--YRBS: Recipient Activities

    a. Staffing: Identify staff position(s) in the education or health 
agency with responsibility and organizational authority for 
coordinating YRBS activities. The individual(s) identified should have 
knowledge needed for leadership and coordination of proposed 
activities, knowledge and understanding of school programs, and 
communication skills necessary to effectively promote and facilitate 
proposed plans and activities.
    b. Establish and implement a plan for conducting a biennial YRBS 
among students in grades 9 thru 12 and disseminating YRBS results.
    c. Partnerships: Establish or sustain effective partnerships with 
other State agencies, including the State health agency; non-
governmental organizations; institutions of higher education; and 
others that can assist in implementing the YRBS, disseminating YRBS 
results, and utilizing results for program planning.
    Performance will be measured by the extent to which:
    [sbull] The State obtains weighted data representative of students 
in grades 9 thru 12 throughout the state, on a bi-annual basis and
    [sbull] Decision makers, school districts, schools, health 
agencies, and other partners utilize YRBS data, in addition to other 
data, to improve policies and programs that will reduce health risk 
behaviors and improve the health of school-age youth.

SEA Priority 2-A--CSHP and Reduction of Chronic Disease

Risks: Recipient Activities
    a. Staffing: Establish and maintain a full-time senior staff 
position in the State education agency (i.e., one FTE) and a full-time 
senior staff position in the State health agency (i.e., one FTE), with 
expertise, experience, and full-time responsibility and organizational 
authority for building each agency's capacity to implement and 
coordinate effective school health programs. In addition, the State 
education agency should establish or identify an appropriate full-time 
staff position (i.e., one FTE), in the education agency with 
experience, expertise, and full responsibility and organizational 
authority for coordinating programs intended to reduce tobacco use and 
addiction, improve eating patterns, increase physical activity, and 
reduce obesity among youth. The individuals

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identified for these three positions should have necessary credentials 
(e.g., licensure or certification), training, and experience needed for 
leadership and coordination of the proposed activities; knowledge and 
experience in working with school and public health personnel, 
programs, and administrative procedures; and communication skills that 
would enable them to serve as a liaison with partners in health, 
education, the community, and with other decision makers at the local, 
State, and national levels.
    b. State Agency Collaboration and Planning: Strengthen the 
partnership between the State education and State health agencies that 
will result in an Interagency Plan that identifies complementary 
responsibilities and support functions to improve the health and 
educational achievement of students through CSHP in the State's 
schools. Efforts to address tobacco use, dietary patterns that result 
in disease and obesity, physical inactivity, HIV, asthma, foodborne 
illnesses, and other health priorities should be coordinated with other 
State health department programs. The Intra-agency Plan should address 
effective policies and programs; resources; financial sustainability; 
technical assistance; professional development; partnerships and 
linkages; health communications and marketing; and assessment and 
evaluation.
    c. Partnerships and Planning: Develop and implement a State plan 
that builds a broader private and public partnership for reducing 
priority risk behaviors, particularly tobacco use and addiction, 
improving eating patterns, increasing physical activity, and reducing 
obesity among youth in schools. The plan should be developed in 
collaboration with the State health agency, relevant non-governmental 
organizations, institutions of higher education, teachers and parents, 
and other coalitions or groups. Priorities established as part of the 
plan should be based on State surveillance and other monitoring and 
evaluation data. This plan should address efforts to help schools 
reduce foodborne illnesses, improve student awareness of food safety, 
and reduce asthma episodes and asthma-related absences (SEA Priority 2-
B), and help schools prevent sexual risk behaviors that results in HIV 
infection (SEA priority 3), if theses are State or local priorities and 
CDC funds are provided to support theses priorities. The State plan 
should:
    1. Incorporate the support functions and responsibilities of the 
State education and health agency's Interagency Plan.
    2. Identify the complementary roles and responsibilities of State 
and local partners, specifying the contributions (e.g., funds, 
technical assistance, professional development, and materials 
development) of partners in helping schools reduce priority health 
risks, including tobacco use and addiction, physical inactivity, and 
eating patterns that result in obesity and disease.
    3. Emphasize implementation of effective policies, environmental 
changes, and educational strategies consistent with CDC's Guidelines 
for School and Community Programs to Promote Lifelong Physical Activity 
Among Young People, Guidelines for School Health Programs to Promote 
Lifelong Healthy Eating, Guidelines for School Health Programs to 
Prevent Tobacco Use and Addiction, and other relevant CDC guidance 
documents that target other youth risk behaviors, and the use of school 
health assessment data.
    4. Build on a theoretical approach based on proven principles for 
prevention.
    5. Leverage resources and avoid duplication at the state and local 
levels.
    d. State Systems To Support School District Implementation and 
Evaluation: Develop and implement a plan for providing professional 
development, consultation, technical assistance, evaluation, and 
resource development in support of school districts or schools to 
assist them in assessing, planning, and coordinating school health 
programs and implementing strategies to reduce priority health risks, 
including tobacco use and addiction, physical inactivity, and eating 
patterns that result in obesity and disease.
    e. Implement strategies to reduce disparities among populations 
that may be disproportionately affected by health risks and problems, 
especially among communities of color (as defined in CDC's HIV 
Prevention Strategic Plan Through 2005).
    f. Identify proponents and advocates among decision makers and the 
public, inform and support them in their efforts to promote the role of 
schools in achieving priority health outcomes and improving academic 
success; including sharing and disseminating accurate information about 
effective programs and materials that address health priorities with 
decision-makers, other leaders including school personnel, parents, 
students, and other stakeholders.
    g. Evaluate State-level school health capacity-building efforts and 
the implementation and effectiveness of strategies to reduce priority 
health risks, especially tobacco use and addiction and physical 
inactivity and eating patterns that result in obesity and disease, for 
the purposes of programmatic improvement and long range planning. 
Evaluation plans should include systematic procedures to monitor school 
policies and programs intended to promote health enhancing behaviors 
among youth.
    h. Participate in at least two national, CDC or DASH-sponsored 
training workshops or conferences each budget year of the project 
period for the purpose of strengthening State-level infrastructure to 
support and coordinate school health programs and improving education 
to prevent leading causes of disease, disability, and death among 
youth.
    Performance will be measured by the extent to which the State 
education and health agencies provide support to schools and school 
districts such that schools:
    [sbull] Implement effective policies, environmental changes, and 
educational strategies to reduce tobacco use and addiction, physical 
inactivity, and eating patterns that result in obesity and disease 
among youth.
    [sbull] Implement strategies to reduce health disparities among 
sub-populations that may be disproportionally affected by health risks 
and problems.
    [sbull] Integrate effective school-based policies, programs and 
strategies to reduce priority health risks, especially, tobacco use and 
addiction, physical inactivity, and unhealthy eating patterns with 
community-based strategies, while building a sustainable local resource 
and funding base.

SEA Priority 2-B--State Demonstration Efforts (Asthma and Foodborne 
Illness)

Recipient Activities
    a. Staffing: Identify staff position(s) in the education agency 
with full-time responsibility and organizational authority for 
coordinating activities (reducing asthma-related illnesses or asthma-
related absences and/or reducing foodborne illnesses) proposed under 
this priority. The individual(s) identified should have credentials, 
training, and experience needed for leadership and coordination of 
proposed activities; knowledge and experience in working with schools 
and public health personnel; and communication skills necessary to 
effectively promote and facilitate proposed plans and activities.
    b. Partnerships and Planning: Develop and implement a state plan 
that builds a broader private and public partnership for reducing 
asthma-related

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illnesses or asthma-related absences and/or reducing foodborne 
illnesses in schools and improving student awareness of food safety. 
The plan should be developed in collaboration with the State Health 
Agency, the State agricultural agency's cooperative extension services 
(foodborne illnesses) relevant non-governmental organizations, 
institutions of higher education, teachers and parents, and other 
coalitions or groups. Priorities established as part of the plan should 
be based on State surveillance and other monitoring and evaluation 
data. (This plan should also address efforts to help schools reduce 
tobacco use and addiction, improve eating patterns, increase physical 
activity, and reduce obesity among youth in schools (SEA Priority 2-A) 
and help schools prevent sexual risk behaviors that result in HIV 
infection (SEA Priority 3), if CDC funds are also provided to support 
these priorities).
    The plan should:
    1. Incorporate the support functions and responsibilities of the 
State education and health agency's Interagency Plan for coordinating 
school health programs.
    2. Identify the complementary roles and responsibilities of State 
and local partners, specifying the contributions (e.g., funds, 
technical assistance, professional development, materials development) 
of partners to reduce asthma-related illnesses or asthma-related 
absences and/or reducing foodborne illnesses in schools and improving 
student awareness of food safety.
    3. Emphasize implementation of effective policies, environmental 
changes, and educational strategies consistent with CDC guidance 
related to these priorities.
    4. Leverage resources and avoid duplication at the state and local 
levels.
    c. Implement strategies to reduce disparities among populations 
that may be disproportionately affected by these relevant health risks 
and problems, especially among communities of color (as defined in 
CDC's HIV Prevention Strategic Plan Through 2005).
     d. Identify proponents and advocates among decision makers and the 
public, and inform and support them in their efforts to promote the 
role of schools in reducing asthma-related illnesses or asthma-related 
absences and/or reducing foodborne illnesses in schools and improving 
student awareness of food safety, including sharing and disseminating 
accurate information about effective programs and materials that 
address these priorities with decision-makers, other leaders, including 
school personnel, parents, students, other stakeholders in the state as 
well as interested education and health agencies in the nation.
    e. Evaluate State-level school health capacity building efforts and 
the effectiveness of strategies to reduce asthma-related illnesses or 
asthma-related absences and/or reduce foodborne illnesses in schools 
and improve student awareness of food safety for the purposes of 
programmatic improvement and long range planning.
    Performance will be measured by the extent to which the State 
education agency and partners:
    [sbull] Translate and communicate successful and effective 
interventions for adoption by other state education and health 
agencies, school districts, schools, and communities and
    [sbull] Provide support to schools and school districts to do the 
following:
    (1) Implement effective policies, environmental changes, and 
educational strategies to reduce asthma-related illnesses or asthma-
related absences and/or reducing foodborne illnesses in schools and 
improving student awareness of food safety.
    (2) Implement strategies to reduce disparities among populations 
that may be disproportionally affected by these priority health risks 
and problems.

SEA Priority 3--HIV Prevention for School-Age Youth

Recipient Activities
    a. Staffing: Establish and maintain a staff position that has full-
time responsibility and organizational authority for HIV prevention 
activities within the agency. The individual in this position should 
have necessary credentials (e.g., licensure or certification), 
training, and experience needed for leadership, coordination, and 
implementation of HIV prevention activities; knowledge and experience 
working in school settings and with sub-populations of youth that might 
be disproportionately affected by HIV infection; and communication 
skills that enable the staff person to serve as a liaison with partners 
in health, education, and the community.
    b. Partnerships and Program Planning: Develop and implement a plan 
that builds on the broader state and community plans for strengthening 
HIV prevention in schools. The plan should be developed in 
collaboration with the State health agency HIV prevention program, the 
HIV community planning group, abstinence groups, schools, parents, 
students, and other coalitions or groups that are implementing efforts 
to prevent HIV infection among youth. Priorities established as a part 
of the plan should be based on state surveillance and other monitoring 
and evaluation data, reflective of HIV trends, and complement 
priorities identified by the State HIV community planning group. The 
plan should:
    1. Identify the complementary roles and responsibilities of State 
and local partners, specifying the contributions (e.g., funds, 
technical assistance, professional development, and materials 
development) of partners (especially the State health agency HIV 
prevention program).
    2. Emphasize implementation of effective policies, programs, 
curricula frameworks, standards, resources and support in school that 
are:
    (a) Developmentally and culturally appropriate.
    (b) Medically and scientifically accurate.
    (c) Consistent with scientifically researched evidence of 
effectiveness.
    (d) Built on a theoretical approach based on proven principles for 
prevention.
    (e) Consistent with the principles of CDC's Guidelines for 
Effective School Health Education to Prevent the Spread of AIDS and 
other CDC guidance documents.
    (f) Integrate HIV prevention efforts with efforts to prevent other 
STDs and/or unintended pregnancy and efforts to reduce alcohol and 
other drug use.
    (g) Complement existing intra-agency policy-making processes, state 
school board policy, and school and community standards and values.
    (h) Leverage resources and avoid duplication at the state and local 
levels.
    c. Implement strategies to reduce disparities among populations 
that may be disproportionately affected by HIV infection, especially 
among communities of color (as defined in CDC's HIV Prevention 
Strategic Plan Through 2005).
    d. State systems to support school district implementation and 
evaluation: Develop and implement a plan for providing professional 
development, consultation, technical assistance, resource development, 
and evaluation to school districts and schools. Assist them in 
assessing, planning, and implementing effective HIV prevention to youth 
most at risk for HIV infection, including youth in grades 7 thru 12, 
youth with special needs, youth in high-risk situations, youth who are 
both in and out of school, youth of color, and sexual minority youth.
    e. HIV Materials Review and Medical Accuracy: Establish and 
maintain an HIV materials review panel to review all written materials, 
audiovisual materials,

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pictorials, questionnaires, surveillance instruments, proposed group 
educational sessions, educational curricula, and like materials, 
including website materials (see Attachment IV, AR-5, for guidance 
related to HIV Program Review Panel Requirements). The review 
requirement are to ensure that funded materials, sessions, and 
activities include accurate information about the harmful effects of 
promiscuous sexual activity and intravenous substance abuse, and the 
benefits of abstaining from such activities. Ensure that funded 
materials, sessions, and activities do not provide education or 
information designed to promote or encourage, directly, homosexual or 
heterosexual sexual activity or intravenous substance abuse. Ensure 
that educational sessions do not include activities in which attendees 
participate in sexually suggestive physical contact or actual sexual 
practices; and that materials provide accurate information about 
various means to reduce an individual's risk of exposure to, or to 
transmission of, the etiologic agent for AIDS. In addition, establish 
mechanisms to ensure that all mass produced education materials that 
are specifically designed to address STDs including Human Papilloma 
Virus (HPV) shall contain medically accurate information regarding the 
effectiveness or lack of effectiveness of condoms in preventing the STD 
the materials are designed to address.
    f. Identify proponents and advocates among decision makers and the 
public, and inform and support them in their efforts to promote the 
role of schools in achieving HIV prevention outcomes, including sharing 
and disseminating accurate information about effective programs and 
materials that address HIV prevention priorities with decision-makers, 
other leaders, including school personnel, parents, students and other 
stakeholders.
    g. Involve youth as appropriate in planning, delivering, and 
evaluating HIV prevention programs.
    h. Evaluate State-level capacity building efforts and evaluate the 
implementation and effectiveness of strategies to reduce risks for HIV 
infection among youth in schools for the purposes of programmatic 
improvement and long range planning. Evaluations should include 
systematic procedures to monitor school policies and programs intended 
to promote health enhancing behaviors among youth.
    i. Participate in at least two national, CDC or DASH-sponsored 
training workshops or conferences each budget year of the project 
period for the purpose of improving HIV prevention and reducing other 
important health risks that affect young persons.
    Performance will be measured by the extent to which the state 
education agency and partners provide support to schools and school 
districts to:
    [sbull] Implement effective policies and educational strategies to 
reduce risk behaviors that lead to HIV infection among youth.
    [sbull] Implement strategies to reduce disparities among sub-
populations of youth disproportionally affected by HIV infection and 
other health problems related to sexual risk behaviors.
    [sbull] Integrate effective school-based policies, programs and 
strategies to reduce health risks that lead to HIV infection with 
community-based strategies, while building a sustainable local resource 
and funding base.

SEA Priority 4--National Professional Development

Recipient Activities
    a. Staffing: Establish and maintain a full-time staff position 
(i.e., one FTE) in the education agency with full-time responsibility 
and organizational authority for coordinating professional development 
activities. The individual selected for this position should have 
specific credentials, training, and experience needed for leadership 
and coordination of proposed activities, knowledge and experience in 
working with school and public health personnel, and communication 
skills to effectively promote and facilitate professional development 
events.
    b. Collaborate with other SEAs and/or LEAs that receive funding 
under Priority 4 in a Professional Development Consortium (PDC). The 
purpose of the PDC will be to share resources and coordinate 
activities.
    c. Develop and implement a professional development plan that will 
improve State and local planning and implementation of coordinated 
school health programs and strategies that will reduce priority health 
risk behaviors among youth. The professional development plan should:
    (1) Emphasize partnerships among education agencies, health 
agencies, and others.
    (2) Be based on stated needs of DASH-funded education agencies and 
their project partners.
    (3) Promote professional development events that focus on school 
health topics and priorities for representatives from other LEAs, SEAs, 
health agencies, and other interested individuals or groups.
    d. Pay costs associated with coordination of events, including 
travel and per diem for participants and presenters for program-related 
professional development events.
    e. In partnership with the consortium, provide at least two to 
three events within a 12-month budget period.
    f. Evaluate program activities and use evaluation results for 
programmatic improvement and long range planning.
    g. Participate in at least two national, DASH-sponsored 
professional development consortium meetings each budget year of the 
project period for the purpose of planning and coordinating SEA and LEA 
professional development events.
    Performance will be measured by the extent to which professional 
development participants have improved plans and prevention strategies 
consistent with the increased knowledge and skills acquired from the 
professional development events.
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Activities
    a. Provide national YRBS data for comparison with state YRBS data.
    b. Provide public health information, training, and technical 
assistance related to program planning, and implementation, 
surveillance, professional development, and evaluation; assessment of 
program objectives; and dissemination of theoretical approaches, proven 
principles for prevention, effective and successful strategies, 
experiences, and evaluation results.
    c. Collaborate with SEAs, LEAs, and national organizations in 
planning and carrying out relevant national strategies to improve 
school health programs and prevent important health risk behaviors.
    d. Collaborate with appropriate partners to develop and disseminate 
recommendations for policy and program interventions, together with 
recommendations for assessment.
    e. Organize and convene meetings of national, State, and local 
organizations and agencies to address issues and activities related to 
strengthening education to prevent important health risk behaviors and 
problems and integrating such education into existing school health 
programs.
    f. Organize and convene professional development consortium 
meetings to jointly plan and deliver professional development and 
learning opportunities for DASH-funded national non-governmental and 
state and local grantees.
    SEA Applicants can skip Section II and proceed to Section III.

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Section II: Large City Local Education Agency (LEA)

B. Eligible Applicants

    Eligible applicants for LEA Priorities 1, 2, 3, and 4 will be the 
20 urban school districts with an enrollment of 80,000 students or more 
and a percentage of minority students of 50 percent or greater, as 
reported in the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for 
Education Statistics, Local Education Agency Universe Survey, 1999-
2000. These districts include the New York City Public Schools (New 
York, NY); Los Angeles Unified Schools (Los Angeles, CA); City of 
Chicago School District (Chicago, IL); Dade County School District 
(Miami, FL); Broward County School District (Fort Lauderdale, FL); 
Houston Independent School District (Houston, TX); Philadelphia City 
School District (Philadelphia, PA); Detroit City School District 
(Detroit, MI); Dallas Independent School District (Dallas, TX); Orange 
County School District (Orlando, FL); San Diego City Unified Schools 
(San Diego, CA); Prince George's County Public Schools (Upper Marlboro, 
MD); Memphis City School District (Memphis, TN); Baltimore City Public 
School System (Baltimore, MD); Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools 
(Charlotte, NC); Milwaukee School District (Milwaukee, WI); DeKalb 
County School District (Decatur, GA); Long Beach Unified Schools (Long 
Beach, CA); Albuquerque Public Schools (Albuquerque, NM); and Orleans 
Parish School Board (New Orleans, LA).
    Eligible for LEA Priorities 1,2, and 4 will be the largest urban 
school districts in 11 additional metropolitan areas that have reported 
6,600 cases or more of AIDS to CDC as of December 31, 2000. These LEAs 
include Atlanta City Schools (Atlanta, GA); Boston School District 
(Boston, MA); District of Columbia Public Schools (Washington, D.C.); 
Hillsborough County School District (Tampa, FL); Jersey City Schools 
(Jersey City, NJ); Newark City Schools (Newark, NJ); Oakland Unified 
Schools (Oakland, CA); Palm Beach County School District (West Palm 
Beach, FL); San Bernardino City Unified Schools (San Bernardino, CA); 
San Francisco Unified Schools (San Francisco, CA); and Seattle Schools 
(Seattle, WA). The LEAs listed in this paragraph are not eligible to 
apply for LEA Priority 3.
    LEA applicants can apply separately for Priority 1, Priority 2, 
Priority 3, or Priority 4 or any combination of priorities for which 
they are eligible with the following exception. To be awarded funds 
under LEA Priority 4, applicants must apply and be funded under 
Priority 2.
    If additional funds become available, LEAs eligible under Priority 
2 will be eligible to apply for additional funds to promote abstinence 
and prevent STD prevention and pregnancy prevention, and LEAs eligible 
under Priority 3 will be eligible to apply for additional funds to 
address other priority health problems.

    Note: Title 2 of the United States Code section 1611 states that 
an organization described in section 501(c)(4) of the Internal 
Revenue Code that engages in lobbying activities is not eligible to 
receive Federal funds constituting an award, grant, or loan.

C. Availability of Funds

    It is anticipated that a total of approximately $6,625,000 will be 
available in FY 2003 to fund LEA Priorities 1, 2, and 3. In addition, 
approximately $1,275,000 will be available for up to a total of 3 SEAs 
or LEAs for Priority 4.

LEA Priority 1: YRBS

    Approximately $625,000 is available for LEA Priority 1 to fund 
approximately 25 local education agencies. It is expected that the 
average award will be $25,000.

LEA Priority 2: HIV Prevention for School-Age Youth

    Approximately $5,000,000 is expected to be available to support 
approximately 20 large city LEAs for Priority 2. Awards to LEAs are 
expected to range from $100,000 to $350,000. Funds will be awarded as 
follows to large city LEAs using student enrollment data as reported in 
the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education 
Statistics, Local Education Agency Universe Survey, 1999-2000:
    [sbull] LEAs with a student enrollment of more than 1,000,000 (New 
York City Public Schools) are eligible for an award range of 
approximately $225,000 to $350,000.
    [sbull] LEAs with a student enrollment of less than 1,000,000, but 
equal to more than 350,000 (City of Chicago School District, Dade 
County School District and Los Angeles Unified Schools) are eligible 
for an award range of approximately $200,000 to $325,000.
    [sbull] LEAs with a student enrollment of less than 350,000, but 
equal to or more than 200,000 (Broward County School District, Houston 
Independent School District, and Philadelphia City School District) are 
eligible for an award range of approximately $175,000 to $300,000.
    [sbull] LEAs with a student enrollment of less than 200,000, but 
equal to or more than 100,000(Baltimore City Public School System, 
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Dallas Independent School District, 
Detroit City School District, Hillsborough County School District, 
Memphis City School District, Orange County School District, Palm Beach 
County School District, Prince George's County Public Schools, and San 
Diego City Unified Schools) are eligible for an award range of 
approximately $150,000 to $275,000.
    [sbull] LEAs with a student enrollment of less than 100,000 
(Albuquerque Public Schools, Atlanta City Schools, Boston School 
District, DeKalb County School District, District of Columbia Public 
Schools, Jersey City Schools, Long Beach Unified Schools, Milwaukee 
School District, Newark City Schools, Oakland Unified Schools, Orleans 
Parish School Board, San Bernardino City Unified Schools, San Francisco 
Unified Schools, and Seattle Schools) are eligible for an award range 
of approximately $125,000 to $250,000.

LEA Priority 3: Local Demonstration Efforts (Asthma)

    Approximately $1,000,000 is expected to be available for LEA 
Priority 3 to fund approximately six large city LEAs to implement a 
demonstration program to help schools reduce asthma episodes and 
asthma-related absences. Awards will average $175,000 with a range from 
approximately $150,000 to $200,000.

LEA Priority 4: National Professional Development

    Approximately $1,275,000 is expected to be available for LEA 
Priority 4 to fund some combination of two to three SEA or large city 
LEA projects to implement national professional development strategies. 
Awards will average $400,000 and range from approximately $375,000 to 
$425,000.
    It is expected that all awards will begin on or about March 1, 
2003, with a 12-month budget period, within a project period of five 
years. Funding estimates may vary and are subject to change.
    Continuation awards within an approved project period will be made 
on the basis of satisfactory progress as evidenced by required reports 
and the availability of funds.
Use of Funds
    Cooperative agreement funds may be used to support personnel, 
purchase equipment, supplies, services and travel directly related to 
program activities and consistent with the scope of the cooperative 
agreement. Funds under this program announcement may not be used to 
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treatment services, and purchase or disseminate condoms.
    Although public health may have an assurance role in clinical 
testing and screening, funds are not to be used to provide clinical 
testing or screening services. Federal funds awarded under this program 
announcement may not be used to supplant State or local funds.
    As part of the increased flexibility efforts, applicants are 
encouraged to maximize the public health benefit from the use of CDC 
funding within the approved budget line items to enhance the grantee's 
ability to achieve stated goals and objectives and to respond to 
changes in the field as they occur within the scope of the award. 
Recipients also have the ability to redirect up to 25 percent of the 
total approved budget to achieve stated goals and objectives within the 
scope of the award, except from categories that require prior approval 
such as contracts, change in scope, and change in key personnel. A list 
of required prior approval actions will be included in the Notice of 
Grant Award.
    LEA applicants are encouraged to identify and take advantage of 
opportunities, which will also enhance the recipient's work with other 
local education agency and health department programs and community 
programs that address risk factors and health problems described in LEA 
Priorities. This may include cost sharing to support a shared position 
to implement activities such as surveillance, health communication, 
professional development, health resources development, and evaluation 
or to implement programs that cross units/departments within the local 
education and health agency. This may include, but is not limited to, 
joint planning activities, joint funding of complementary school health 
activities based on program recipient activities, coalition or 
alliances, combined development and implementation of policy and 
program interventions, and other cost sharing activities that 
complement school and youth-based program priorities funded by other 
CDC units.

D. Program Requirements

    In conducting activities to achieve the purpose of this program, 
the large city LEA recipients will be responsible for the activities 
under 1. Recipient Activities, and CDC will be responsible for the 
activities listed under 2. CDC Activities.
    1. Recipient Activities for each LEA Priority are listed below. CDC 
has developed performance measures to evaluate recipients' progress in 
meeting the requirements. These performance measures are listed 
following the recipient activities listed for each priority.

LEA Priority 1--YRBS: Recipient Activities

    a. Staffing: Identify staff position(s) in the education or health 
agency with responsibility and organizational authority for 
coordinating YRBS activities. The individual(s) identified should have 
knowledge needed for leadership and coordination of proposed 
activities, knowledge and understanding of school programs, and 
communication skills necessary to effectively promote and facilitate 
proposed plans and activities.
    b. Establish and implement a plan for conducting a biennial YRBS 
among students in grades 9 thru 12 and disseminating YRBS results.
    c. Partnerships: Establish or sustain effective partnerships with 
other local agencies, including the state or local health agency; non-
governmental organizations, institutions of higher education, and 
others that can assist in implementing the YRBS, disseminating YRBS 
results, and utilizing results for program planning.
    Performance will be measured by the extent to which:
    [sbull] The district or community obtains weighted data 
representative of students in grades 9 thru 12 throughout the school 
district, on a biennial basis.
    [sbull] Decision makers, schools, health agencies, and other 
partners utilize YRBS data; in addition to other data, to improve 
policies and programs that will reduce health risk behaviors and 
improve the health of school-age youth.

LEA Priority 2--HIV Prevention for School-Age Youth

Recipient Activities
    a. Staffing: Establish and maintain a staff position that has full-
time responsibility and organizational authority for HIV prevention 
activities within the agency. The individual in this position should 
have specific credentials, training and experience needed for 
leadership, coordination, and implementation of HIV prevention 
activities; knowledge and experience working in school settings and 
with sub-populations of youth that might be disproportionately affected 
by HIV infection; and communication skills that enable the staff person 
to serve as a liaison with partners in health, education, and the 
community.
    b. Partnerships and Program Planning: Develop and implement a plan 
that builds on the broader state and community plans for strengthening 
HIV prevention in schools. The plan should be developed in 
collaboration with the State education agency HIV prevention program, 
State health agency HIV prevention program, relevant HIV community 
planning groups, abstinence groups, schools, parents, students, and 
other coalitions or groups that are implementing efforts to prevent HIV 
infection among youth. Priorities established as a part of the plan 
should be based on state surveillance and other monitoring and 
evaluation data; should be reflective of HIV trends, and complement 
priorities identified by the State HIV community planning group. The 
plan should:
    1. Identify the complementary roles and responsibilities of State 
and local partners, specifying the contributions (e.g., funds, 
technical assistance, professional development, and materials 
development) of partners (especially the local health agency HIV 
prevention program).
    2. Emphasize implementation of effective policies, programs, 
curricula frameworks, standards, resources and support in school that 
are:
    (a) Developmentally and culturally appropriate,
    (b) Medically and scientifically accurate,
    (c) consistent with scientifically researched evidence of 
effectiveness,
    (d) Build on a theoretical approach based on proven principles for 
prevention,
    (e) Consistent with the principles of CDC's Guidelines for 
Effective School Health Education to Prevent the Spread of AIDS,
    (f) Integrate HIV prevention efforts with efforts to prevent other 
STDs and/or unintended pregnancy and efforts to reduce alcohol and 
other drug use,
    (g) Complements existing intra-agency policy-making processes, 
local school board policy, and school and community standards and 
values, and
    (h) Leverage resources and avoid duplication at the local level.
    c. Implement strategies to reduce disparities among populations 
that may be disproportionately affected by HIV infection, especially 
among communities of color (as defined in CDC's HIV Prevention 
Strategic Plan Through 2005).
    d. Support Implementation and Evaluation: Develop and implement a 
plan for providing professional development, consultation, technical 
assistance, resource development, and evaluation to schools to assist 
them in assessing, planning, and implementing effective HIV prevention 
to youth most at risk for HIV infection, including

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youth in grades 7 thru 12, youth with special needs, youth in high-risk 
situations, youth who are both in and out of school, youth of color, 
and sexual minority youth.
    e. HIV Materials Review and Medical Accuracy: Establish and 
maintain an HIV materials review panel to review all written materials, 
audiovisual materials, pictorials, questionnaires, survey instruments, 
proposed group educational sessions, educational curricula and like 
materials, including website materials (see Attachment IV, AR-5, for 
guidance related to HIV Program Review Panel Requirements). Ensure that 
funded materials, sessions, and activities include accurate information 
about the harmful effects of promiscuous sexual activity and 
intravenous substance abuse, and the benefits of abstaining from such 
activities. Ensure that funded materials, sessions, and activities do 
not provide education or information designed to promote or encourage, 
directly, homosexual or heterosexual sexual activity or intravenous 
substance abuse; that educational sessions do not include activities in 
which attendees participate in sexually suggestive physical contact or 
actual sexual practices; and that materials provide accurate 
information about various means to reduce an individual's risk of 
exposure to, or to transmission of, the etiologic agent for AIDS. In 
addition, establish mechanisms to ensure that all mass produced 
education materials that are specifically designed to address STDs 
including HPV shall contain medically accurate information regarding 
the effectiveness or lack of effectiveness of condoms in preventing the 
STD the materials are designed to address.
    f. Identify proponents and advocates among decision makers and the 
public, inform and support them in their efforts to promote the role of 
schools in achieving HIV prevention outcomes, including sharing and 
disseminating accurate information about effective programs and 
materials that address HIV prevention priorities with decision-makers, 
other leaders, including school personnel, parents, students and other 
stakeholders.
    g. Involve youth as appropriate in planning, delivering, and 
evaluating HIV prevention programs.
    h. Evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of strategies to 
reduce risks for HIV infection among youth in schools for the purposes 
of programmatic improvement and long range planning. Evaluations should 
include systematic procedures to monitor school policies and programs 
intended to promote health enhancing behaviors among youth.
    i. Participate in at least two national, CDC or DASH-sponsored 
training workshops or conferences each budget year of the project 
period for the purpose of improving HIV prevention and reducing other 
important health risks that affect young persons.
    Performance will be measured by the extent to which schools:
    [sbull] Implement effective policies and educational strategies to 
reduce risk behaviors that lead to HIV infection among youth.
    [sbull] Implement strategies to reduce disparities among sub-
populations of youth disproportionally affected by HIV infection and 
other health problems related to sexual risk behaviors.
    [sbull] Integrate effective school-based policies, programs and 
strategies to reduce health risks that lead to HIV infection with 
community-based strategies, while building a sustainable local resource 
and funding base.

LEA Priority 3--Local Demonstration Efforts (Asthma)

Recipient Activities
    a. Staffing: Identify or establish a position in the local 
education agency with full-time responsibility and organizational 
authority for management and supervision of proposed activities. The 
individual identified should have the necessary credentials (e.g., 
licensure or certification), training, and experience needed for 
leadership and coordination of proposed activities; knowledge and 
experience in working with school and public health personnel; and 
communication skills necessary to effectively promote and facilitate 
proposed plans and activities.
    b. Monitor local school district and relevant state policies and 
programs related to funded priorities and make recommendations that 
will help schools establish action plans, support laws, regulations for 
access to services in schools, assist children and their families with 
information, and encourage schools to reduce environmental factors that 
contribute to the priority health problem(s) to be addressed.
    c. Partnerships and Planning: Develop and implement a district-wide 
plan that builds a broader private and public partnership for reducing 
asthma-related illnesses or asthma-related absences as part of a 
coordinated school health program. The plan should be developed in 
collaboration with the State and local health agency, relevant non-
governmental organizations, institutions of higher education, teachers, 
parents, and other coalitions or groups. Established priorities should 
be based on surveillance, other monitoring and evaluation data. The 
plan should:
    1. Identify the complementary roles and responsibilities of state 
and local partners, specifying the contributions (e.g., funds, 
technical assistance, professional development, materials development) 
of partners.
    2. Emphasize implementation of effective policies, environmental 
changes, and educational strategies consistent with CDC's Strategies 
for Coordinated School Asthma Programs.
    3. Leverage resources and avoid duplication at the local levels.
    d. Implement strategies to reduce disparities among populations 
that may be disproportionately affected by health risks and problems, 
especially among communities of color (as defined in CDC's HIV 
Prevention Strategic Plan Through 2005).
    e. Identify proponents and advocates among decision makers, the 
public, inform and support them in their efforts to promote the role of 
schools in reducing asthma-related illnesses or asthma-related absences 
in schools; including sharing and disseminating accurate information 
about effective programs, materials that address these priorities with 
decision-makers, other leaders, school personnel, parents, students, 
other stakeholders education and health agencies in the nation.
    (f) Evaluate the effectiveness of strategies to reduce asthma-
related illnesses or asthma-related absences in schools for the 
purposes of programmatic improvement and long range planning.
    Performance will be measured by the extent to which the local 
education agencies:
    [sbull] Implement effective policies, environmental changes, and 
educational strategies to reduce asthma-related illnesses or asthma-
related absences.
    [sbull] Implement strategies to reduce disparities among 
populations that may be disproportionally affected by these priority 
health risks and problems, especially asthma-related illnesses and 
absences.
    [sbull] Translate and communicate successful and effective 
interventions for adoption by other health agencies, school districts, 
schools, and communities.

LEA Priority 4--National Professional Development

Recipient Activities
    a. Staffing: Establish and maintain a full-time staff position 
(i.e., one FTE) in

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the education agency with full-time responsibility and organizational 
authority for coordinating professional development activities. The 
individual selected for this position should have specific credentials, 
training, experience needed for leadership, coordination of proposed 
activities, knowledge, and experience in working with schools and 
public health personnel, and communication skills to effectively 
promote and facilitate professional development events.
    b. Collaborate with other SEAs and/or LEAs that receive funding 
under Priority 4 in a PDC. The purpose of the PDC will be to share 
resources and coordinate activities.
    c. Develop and implement a professional development plan that will 
improve state and local planning and implementation of coordinated 
school health programs and strategies that will reduce priority health 
risk behaviors among youth. The professional development plan should:
    (1) Emphasize partnerships among education agencies, health 
agencies, and others.
    (2) Be based on stated needs of DASH-funded education agencies and 
their project partners.
    (3) Promote professional development events that focus on school 
health topics and priorities for representatives from other LEAs, SEAs, 
health agencies, and other interested individuals or groups.
    d. Pay costs associated with coordination of events, including 
travel and per diem for participants and presenters for program-related 
professional development events.
    e. In partnership with the consortium, provide at least two to 
three events within a 12-month budget period.
    f. Evaluate program activities and use evaluation results for 
programmatic improvement and long range planning.
    g. Participate in at least two national, DASH-sponsored 
professional development consortium meetings each budget year, for 
planning and coordinating SEA and LEA professional development events.
    Performance will be measured by the extent to which professional 
development participants have improved plans and prevention strategies 
consistent with the increased knowledge and skills acquired from the 
professional development events.
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Activities
    a. Provide national YRBS data for comparison with district YRBS 
data.
    b. Provide public health information, training, technical 
assistance related to program planning, implementation, surveillance, 
professional development, evaluation, assessment of program objectives, 
dissemination of theoretical approaches, proven principles for 
prevention, effective and successful strategies, experiences, and 
evaluation results.
    c. Collaborate with SEAs, LEAs, and national organizations in 
planning and carrying out relevant national strategies to improve 
school health programs and prevent important health risk behaviors.
    d. Together with recommendations for assessment, collaborate with 
appropriate partners to develop and disseminate recommendations for 
policy and program interventions.
    e. Organize and convene meetings of national, State, local 
organizations and agencies to address issues and activities related to 
strengthening education to prevent important health risk behaviors, 
problems, and integrate education into existing school health programs.
    f. Organize and convene professional development consortium 
meetings to jointly plan and deliver professional development and other 
opportunities to promote learning for DASH-funded national non-
governmental and state and local grantees.

Section III: Guidance for SEA and LEA Applications (All Priorities)

E. Content

Letter of Intent (LOI)

    An LOI is requested prior to application for this program. The LOI 
should be no more than two pages, single-spaced, printed on one side, 
with one-inch margins, and unreduced fonts. The LOI will be used only 
to confirm eligibility and establish CDC review panel processes. The 
information contained within the LOI will not be reviewed or used as 
part of the application review process. The LOI should include the 
name, address, telephone, email address, and fax number of the agency's 
primary contact for writing and submitting the application. Identify 
the SEA or LEA priorities for which you are applying. The LOI should be 
signed by the Superintendent or Commissioner of Education. For a State 
applying for SEA Priority 2, signatures of officials from both the 
state's education and health agencies should be included.

Applications

    Use the information in this section as well as the relevant program 
requirements in Sections I and II to develop the application content. 
Your application will be evaluated on the criteria described in this 
section, so it is important to follow these criteria when describing 
your program plan. The application should include only one Background 
and Need Section, Capacity Section, and Program Evaluation Section that 
addresses to all priorities for which you are applying. However, you 
should include separate work plans, staffing plans, and budgets for 
each priority area for which you are applying. The narrative should be 
printed on one side, with one inch margins, and unreduced fonts.

Executive Summary

    Your application should begin with a clear, concise three to four 
page summary to include the: (1) Need for proposed programs; (2) number 
and characteristics of youth and schools to be served; (3) outcomes 
that will be expected through the use of these funds; and (4) the total 
and subtotal (by SEA or LEA Priority) amounts of Federal funding 
requested.
1. Background and Need (Not More Than Eight Pages)
    a. Provide evidence of health risks and problems among youth in 
your agency's jurisdiction related to the priorities for which you are 
applying. Include an analysis of disparities, especially among 
communities of color.
    b. Describe the current types and levels of efforts being directed 
to improve school health programs and relevant priorities in your area 
(including information about the number of schools that provide 
relevant programs and the number of youth served by these programs).
    c. Describe specific needs suggested from the data presented above 
that can be addressed by activities proposed in your work plan.
    d. (SEA Priority 4 and LEA Priority 4 applicants only) Using 
research from journals, surveys, and other assessment or observational 
data, describe your understanding of the professional development needs 
of other seas or LEAVES relative to HIV prevention, school health, or 
reaching young persons in high-risk situations both in school and out 
of school.
2. Capacity (Not More Than Ten Pages)
    a. (All applicants) Describe your agency's existing organizational 
structure and how it supports programs intended to improve the health 
of youth.
    b. (SEA applicants only) Describe the organizational structure of 
the state health agency and how that structure supports the 
coordination of the existing school health program and priority areas 
for which you are applying.
    c. (SEA applicants only) Describe your agency's current 
relationship with

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each relevant unit within the state health agency. Defining each unit's 
appropriate role and contributions toward coordinating the 
implementation of school health programs and priority areas for which 
you are applying.
    d. (SEA Priority 2 applicants only) Describe any activities 
conducted to assess the current status of the existing State capacity 
to support school health and reduce health risks that affect young 
persons. If an assessment was completed, describe any infrastructure 
development activities that have been planned or implemented based on 
assessment results.
    e. (All applicants) Describe your agency's existing capacity, as 
well as the capacity of other significant partners, including efforts 
to:
    1. Monitor critical health behaviors and outcomes, and monitor 
school policies and programs intended to promote health enhancing 
behaviors and outcomes among youth.
    2. In support of the priorities for which you are applying build 
partnerships, alliances, networks, or coalitions related to increasing 
and promoting the health of youth. Include participation in state or 
city HIV prevention planning groups.
    3. Reach populations of youth most at risk for health problems 
(especially among communities of color).
    4. Provide professional development, technical assistance, and 
resources to local school districts and schools to prevent health 
problems among school-age youth (especially to address the priorities 
for which you are applying).
    5. Inform decision makers, share information about policies and 
programs, disseminate information related to priority programs and 
activities related to working with media.
    6. Evaluate programs intended to improve the health of youth.
    f. (SEA Priority 2 applicants only) Describe how your agency 
currently uses Federal, State, local, and philanthropic funds, 
including categorical funds, to support infrastructure development and 
coordination of school health programs.
    g. (SEA and LEA Priority 4 applicants only) Describe any activities 
conducted to assess the school health professional development needs of 
other education professionals and how the assessment results were used.
    h. (SEA and LEA Priority 4 applicants only) Describe how your 
agency has planned and conducted multi-day training for a variety of 
participants.
3. Work Plan (Not More Than Ten Pages for Each Priority or Content 
Area)
    Provide a separate, clearly labeled narrative work plan for each 
priority for which you are applying. Use of the template displayed in 
Attachment III is recommended. Applicants applying for SEA Priority 2-B 
or LEA Priority 3 should provide a separate work plan for each content 
area for which they are applying for funding (e.g., separate plan to 
reduce asthma episodes and absences in schools and a separate plan to 
help reduce food borne illness and improve student awareness of food 
safety). All applicants applying for more than one priority should 
describe how the priority area activities will complement one another 
and how planned activities will be coordinated. Each work plan should 
address the following:
    a. Goals and Objectives: List measurable goals that indicate what 
your agency intends to accomplish, and with whom, by the end of the 
five-year project period. Goals should directly relate to the purposes 
of this announcement and the program requirements for the priority area 
for which you are applying. List objectives that are specific, 
measurable, and feasible to be accomplished during the first 12-month 
budget period. The objectives should relate directly to the project 
goals and program requirements and provide anticipated measures for 
successful performance.
    b. Methods: Describe specific activities that are proposed to 
achieve each of the program's objectives during the first 12-month 
budget period. If you are establishing new structures and plans, and 
specific details are incomplete, provide a listing of major steps that 
will be implemented to establish these new structures and plans.
    c. Indicate when each activity will be completed as well as when 
major steps in the activities will occur. For each activity, describe 
the roles of the staff and how they will carry out the activities. 
Summarize activities on a 12-month time line. If other organizations 
will participate in proposed activities, provide the name(s) of the 
organization(s) and identify the SEA or LEA staff person who will 
coordinate or supervise the activity.
    d. Work Plan Evaluation: Describe how progress in meeting 
objectives and completing activities will be evaluated.
    This description should include a process evaluation tracking plan 
to document all programmatic activities and accomplishments throughout 
the first 12 month budget period.
4. Project Management and Staffing Plan (Not More Than Four Pages per 
Priority or Content Area)
    Provide a separate, clearly labeled project management and staffing 
plan for each priority for which you are applying. In addition, 
applicants applying for SEA Priority 2-B or LEA Priority 3 should 
provide a separate project management and staffing plan for each 
content area for which they are applying for funding (e.g., a separate 
plan to reduce asthma episodes and absences in schools and a separate 
plan to reduce food borne illness and improve student awareness of food 
safety). Assurance should be provided to show staff credentials, 
training, and skills to carry out Recipient Activities for the priority 
for which they will be responsible. Each management and staffing plan 
should immediately follow its corresponding work plan described under 
(3) Work Plan, above. Applicants applying for more than one priority 
should describe how the project management and staffing plan will be 
coordinated among priorities. All applicants should describe how they 
will communicate with staff working in related programs in other 
agencies. Each project management and staffing plan should address the 
following:
    a. Provide the following supporting documents related to 
organizational structure:
    1. A description of the proposed program management and control 
systems. Include an organizational chart that indicates placement of 
the proposed program in the agency (including the State health agency 
for SEA Priority 2 applicants) and that show lines of authority, 
communication, accountability and reporting.
    2. A description of proposed SEA or LEA staffing for the project 
and job descriptions for existing and proposed positions that 
illustrate the level of responsibility that staff will have for 
implementing activities. (Also include state health agency staffing for 
SEA Priority 2 applicants).
    3. A description of the business office responsible for monitoring 
Federal funds and how the office will work with proposed program 
management and staff. Identify the business staff person who will carry 
out these responsibilities.
    b. In the appendix, include curriculum vitae (limited to two pages 
per person) for existing staff.
    c. In the appendix, provide letters from all consultants or outside 
agencies named in the work plan that describe their expertise, 
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responsibilities specifically related to the priority area for which 
you are applying.
5. Program Evaluation (Not More Than Five Pages)
    Monitoring and evaluation are considered essential components of 
this program announcement.
    a. Provide plans for evaluating the overall implementation success 
and accomplishments of your program. Plans should include:
    1. A description of monitoring activities that measure the status 
of school health policies and programs.
    2. A specific program evaluation plan for at least one major 
programmatic activity implemented during the first 12-month budget 
period.
    3. A specific program evaluation plan to assess the results of your 
program through the five-year project period.
    b. Describe how these evaluation activities will be incrementally 
implemented to track progress made in developing, implementing the 
program, to measure changes in capacity and short-term outcomes.
    c. Describe how evaluation results will be shared with CDC and 
others.
6. Budget and Budget Justification (Not More Than Eight Pages Per 
Priority or Content Area)
    Provide a separate, clearly labeled budget and budget justification 
for each priority for which you are applying. In addition, applicants 
applying for SEA Priority 2-B or LEA Priority 3 should provide a 
separate budget and budget justification for each content area for 
which they are applying for funding (e.g., separate budget to reduce 
asthma episodes and absences in schools and a separate budget to reduce 
food borne illnesses and improve student awareness of food safety). 
Each budget and justification should immediately follow its 
corresponding staffing plan described under (4) Staffing, above. All 
applicants applying for more than one priority or content area should 
provide a budget summary page which displays each separate priority 
budget and also a total budget by object class category.
    Each budget and budget justification should include the following:
    a. A detailed line item budget for each priority or content area, 
with accompanying narrative justification of all operating expenses, 
that is linked to the stated objectives and work plan of the project. 
The budget justification should describe and justify individual budget 
items that make up the total amount of funds requested in each object 
class category for the first 12 month budget period (March 1, 2003 to 
February 28, 2004).
    b. For all contracts and consultants, provide the following: (1) 
Name of contractor/consultant (2) method of selection (3) period of 
performance (4) scope of work (5) method of accountability and (6) 
itemized budget with justification for each contract/consultant.
    c. Travel: Participation in CDC sponsored training workshops and 
meetings is essential to the effective implementation of funded 
programs. Travel for program implementation should be justified and 
related to implementation of activities. Participation or attendance in 
non-CDC sponsored professional meetings (e.g., American School Health 
Association, (AHA), American Public Health Association, (APHA) and 
others) may be requested but must be directly relevant to work plan 
activities. Participation may include the presentation of papers, 
poster sessions, or exhibits on the project. Specific requests should 
be submitted with appropriate justification. The annual travel budget 
should include:
    [sbull] Travel funds for staff members to participate in national 
meetings in Atlanta, GA, for two to three days.
    [sbull] Funds for HIV-funded staff to make one, two to three day 
trip to Atlanta for the CDC-sponsored National HIV Prevention 
Conference; and
    [sbull] Funds for CSP staff members to make one, two to three day 
trip to Atlanta for CDC-sponsored workshops/ meetings, such as the 
National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control and the 
National Conference on Tobacco or Health.
    d. Indirect Costs: If indirect costs are requested, include a copy 
of your agency's current negotiated Federal Indirect Cost Rate 
Agreement.

F. Submission and Deadline

Letter of Intent (LOI)

    On or before October 7, 2002 submit the LOI to the Grants 
Management
    Specialist identified in the ``Where to Obtain Additional 
Information'' section of this announcement.

Application

    Submit the original and two copies of PHS Form 5161-1 (OMB Approval 
No. 0937-0189). Forms are available in the application kit and at the 
following Internet address: http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/forminfo.htm. If 
you do not have access to the internet, or if you have difficulty 
accessing the forms on-line, you may contact the CDC Procurement and 
Grants Office Technical Information Management Section at: (770) 488-
2700, and forms will be mailed to you. Applications may not be 
submitted electronically.
    Application forms must be submitted in the following order:

Cover Letter
Table of Contents
Application
Budget Information Form
Checklist
Assurances
Certifications
Disclosure Form
HIV Assurance Form (if applicable)
Human Subjects Certification (if applicable)
Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (if applicable)
Narrative

    Applications must be received by 5 p.m. Eastern Time November 1, 
2002. Submit the application and two copies to the: Technical 
Information Management Section, 2920 Brandywine Road, Suite 3000, 
Atlanta, GA 30341.
    Deadline: Applications shall be considered as meeting the deadline 
if they are either:
    (a) Received on or before the deadline date; or
    (b) Sent on or before the deadline date and received in time for 
submission to the objective review group. (Applicants must request a 
legibly dated 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 Applications: Applications that do not meet the criteria in 
(a) or (b) above are considered late applications, will not be 
considered in the current competition, and will be returned to the 
applicant.

G. Evaluation Criteria (100 Points Total)

    Applications for each priority and/or content area will be 
individually reviewed and scored. Each application will be allocated a 
total of 100 points, according to the following criteria:
1. Work Plan (35 Points)
    The comprehensiveness and quality of the work plan as represented 
in the goals, objectives, and methods. Plans should be consistent with 
Recipient Activities for the priority for which you are applying. Plans 
will be evaluated based on the extent to which the applicant:
    a. Proposes project goals that are results oriented.
    b. Proposes first year objectives that will contribute to the 
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of the goals and provide reasonable measures for assessing performance.
    c. Proposes methods that are likely to achieve each of the 
objectives for the 12-month budget period.
    d. Identifies activities and performance measures that are 
consistent with the Recipient Activities.
    e. Provides a reasonable schedule for implementing those 
activities.
    f. Provides a reasonable plan for evaluating completion of 
objectives and methods.
2. Capacity (25 Points)
    The extent to which the applicant appears likely to be successful 
in implementing the proposed activities as measured by:
    a. The agency's structure and support for related programs.
    b. The agency's prior performance reflected in descriptions of 
related policies and program efforts.
3. Project Management and Staffing Plan (20 Points)
    The extent to which:
    a. The applicant will establish and maintain staff positions at 
appropriate levels to carry out responsibilities described in the 
proposed work plan.
    b. Organizational charts demonstrate clear lines of authority for 
project activities and coordination of related programs.
    c. Job descriptions and curricula vitae indicate that staff will 
have the credentials, knowledge, training, and experience in working 
with schools and performing assigned responsibilities.
    d. The fiscal management of proposed programs is clear, adequate, 
and business staff are identified.
    e. Letters from consultants and organizations demonstrating their 
understanding, willingness, expertise, and capacity to carry out 
assigned responsibilities.
4. Program Evaluation (10 Points)
    The extent to which the applicant describes plans for monitoring 
activities that measure the status of school health policies, programs, 
and evaluate at least one major program activity during the first 12 
months. Describe plans for measuring and reporting overall program 
accomplishments over the five-year project period.
5. Background and Need (10 Points)
    The extent and clarity with which the applicant:
    a. Presents credible evidence describing relevant health risks and 
problems and the current status of efforts that target youth in schools 
and school health priorities.
    b. Draws plausible conclusions about the need for proposed project 
activities and potential for achieving successful results.
    c. (For SEA and LEA Priority 4 applicants) Has a clear 
understanding of the professional development content and delivery 
strategies that will help SEAS and other LEAVES improve HIV education, 
school health programs, and reach young persons in high-risk 
situations, especially among communities of color.
    6. Budget and Accompanying Justification (Not scored) The extent to 
which the applicant provides a detailed budget and justification 
consistent with the stated objectives, planned activities, and expected 
performance of the project.

H. Technical Reporting Requirements

    1. By October 15th of each of the first four years of the project 
(2003 thru 2006), submit a semi-annual progress report and continuation 
plan for the following year. The progress report will be used as 
evidence of achievement in meeting approved goals and objectives and 
progress made toward the attainment of the proposed performance 
measures. Continuation funding decisions will be made on the basis of 
satisfactory progress on performance measures and the availability of 
funds. The continuation plan should include:
    a. HIV Assurance of Compliance Forms: One certifying compliance 
with Web Site Notice and one signed by the chairperson (CDC Form 
0.1113), listing names of panel members, documentation of materials 
reviewed, stating the panel's decision (approval or disapproval) 
regarding materials reviewed. (Only grantees funded under SEA Priority 
3 and LEA Priority 2 (HIV Prevention)--See Attachment IV).
    b. A succinct description of progress made in meeting each program 
objective during the first six months of the budget period (March 1st 
thru September 30th). It should consist of no more than 50 pages.
    c. Reasons for not meeting any program objectives.
    d. A description of any new objectives including strategies to 
accomplish them and evaluate their effectiveness.
    e. A line item budget and budget justification for the upcoming 
budget period.
    f. For all proposed contracts and consultants: (1) The name of 
contractor or consultant (2) the method of selection (3) the period of 
performance (4) the scope of work (5) the method of accountability and 
(6) an itemized budget with justification for each contract or 
consultant.
    2. By June 1st, 90 days after the end of each budget period, submit 
an annual progress report. The report should include information 
described in items 1.a., 1.b., and 1.c., except that the period covered 
should be the entire project year, March 1st thru February 28th, 2008.
    3. By June 1st, 90 days after the end of each budget period, submit 
a financial status report.
    4. No more than 90 days after the end of the five-year project 
period (June 1, 2008) submit final financial and performance reports.
    Send an original and two copies of all reports to the Grants 
Management Specialist identified in the ``Where to Obtain Additional 
Information'' section of this announcement.

I. Additional Requirements

    Projects that involve the collection of information from ten or 
more individuals and funded by cooperative agreement will be subject to 
review and approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under 
the Paperwork Reduction Act. Data collection initiated under this 
cooperative agreement program has been approved by the Office of 
Management and Budget under OMB Number (0920-0493), ``2001-2003 Youth 
Risk Behavior Surveys,'' Expiration Date--November 30, 2003.
    The following additional requirements are applicable to this 
program. For a complete description of each, see Attachment II of the 
announcement.

AR-1 Human Subjects Requirement
AR-5 HIV Program Review Panel Requirements
AR-7 Executive Order 12372 Review
AR-9 Paperwork Reduction Act Requirements
AR-10 Smoke-Free Workplace Requirements
AR-11 Healthy People 2010
AR-12 Lobbying Restrictions
AR-13 Prohibition on Use of CDC Funds for Certain Gun Control 
Activities
AR-20 Conference Support

    This program is not subject to the Public Health System Reporting 
Requirements.

J. Where To Obtain Additional Information

    Other CDC announcements can be found on the CDC home page Internet 
address--http://www.cdc.gov. Click on ``Funding'' then ``Grants and 
Cooperative Agreements.''
    For general questions about this announcement, contact: Technical 
Information Section, CDC Procurement

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and Grants Office, 2920 Brandywine Road, Room 3000, Atlanta, GA 30341-
4146, Telephone number: (770) 488-2700.
    For business management and budget assistance, contact: Dave 
Wilson, Grants Management Specialist, Acquisitions and Assistance 
Branch, Procurement and Grants Office, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, 2920 Brandywine Road, Room 3000, Atlanta, GA 30341-4146, 
Telephone number: (770) 488-2692, Email address: [email protected].
    For program technical assistance, contact: Pete Hunt, Chief, School 
Health Program Section, Program Development and Services Branch, 
Division of Adolescent and School Health, National Center for Chronic 
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention (CDC), 4770 Burford Highway, NE., Mailstop K-31, 
Atlanta, GA 30341-3724, Telephone number: (770) 488-6208, e-mail 
address: [email protected].
    Potential applicants may obtain copies of Attachments I, II, III, 
IV, and other documents referenced in the Purpose and Recipient 
Activities online at the following addresses:
    [sbull] CDC's HIV Prevention Strategic Plan Through 2005: http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/news/prevention.pdf.
    [sbull] Healthy People 2010: http://www.health.gov/healthypeople.
    [sbull] Guidelines for Effective School Health Education to Prevent 
the Spread of AIDS; Guidelines for School and Community Programs to 
Promote Lifelong Physical Activity Among Young People; Guidelines for 
School Health Programs to Promote Lifelong Healthy Eating; Guidelines 
for School Health Programs to Prevent Tobacco Use and Addiction; Ten 
Strategies for Establishing a School Health Program Framework To 
Support Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Tobacco Use Prevention; 
Strategies for Coordinated School Asthma Programs; Four Strategies for 
Establishing a State School Food Safety Program; and Six Strategies for 
Professional Development in Cooperative Agreements with State Education 
Agencies, Local Education Agencies, and National Non-governmental 
Organizations; http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash.

    Dated: September 11, 2002.
Sandra R. Manning,
Director, Procurement and Grants Office, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention.
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