[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 40 (Wednesday, March 2, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10096-10103]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-3981]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Urban Networks To Increase Thriving Youth Through Violence 
Prevention

    Announcement Type: New.
    Funding Opportunity Number: RFA 05042.
    Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.136.
    Key Dates:
    Letter of Intent Deadline: April 1, 2005.
    Application Deadline: May 2, 2005.

I. Funding Opportunity Description

    Authority: This program is authorized under Section 391(a) of 
the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. 280b(a).

    Background: Youth violence is a pervasive and multi-sectoral 
problem. Homicide is one of the top four leading causes of death in 
every age group, from ages 1 to 34; it is the second and third leading 
cause of death among people ages 15-24 and 25-34, respectively.\1\ 
Research indicates a number of factors can predispose children to a 
lifetime of violence and criminal activity, including poverty, 
substance abuse, poor parenting skills, placement outside the home, and 
improper peer interaction.\2\ Exposure to violence is magnified for 
many youth in urban communities who have had encounters with shootings, 
stabbings, and other acts of violence by early adolescence.\3\ The 
disproportionate exposure to violence by urban youth often results in 
increased social problems such as anxiety and depression, pronounced 
grief, aggressive and delinquent behavior, a decrease in grade point 
average and social withdrawal.\4\
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    \1\ National Center for Health Statistics, 2000, as printed in 
chart developed by NCIPC, in CDC Injury Factbook 2001-2002.
    \2\ Friday JC. The psychological impact of violence in 
underserved communities. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 1995; 
6(4):403-9.
    \3\ Newman BM, Lohman BJ, Newman PR, Myers MC, & Smith VL 
(2000). Experiences of urban youth navigating the transition to 
ninth grade. Youth and Society, 31(4), 387-416.
    \4\ Rasmussen A, Aber MS, & Bhana A. (2004) Adolescent Coping 
and Neighborhood Violence: Perceptions, Exposure, and Urban Youths' 
Efforts to Deal With Danger. Am J of Community Psychology, Vol. 33.

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    Research indicates youth violence is not an intractable problem. 
Research and programs using public health methodologies is changing the 
emphasis on and commitment to youth violence. This approach derives 
from a tradition of collaboration among a broad spectrum of scientific 
disciplines to prevent the first occurrence of violence. The public 
health approach also highlights the potential utility of applying a 
variety of scientific tools (e.g., epidemiology, medicine and 
behavioral and social sciences) explicitly toward identifying effective 
prevention strategies.
    The public health approach to youth violence prevention maximizes 
the opportunity to jointly define violence, clarifying barriers to 
cooperation, and outlining key actions to foster a multidisciplinary, 
collaborative approach to violence prevention. With this approach, U.S. 
cities, in which exposure to violence is magnified, can develop tools 
and frameworks that connect diverse groups with a common view of the 
issue and provide concrete methods for prevention.
    Using the public health approach to reframe the issue of youth 
violence prevention is important to identify as needed resources, gain 
awareness from key stakeholders, and develop a common view of the 
issue. With a common vision, cities, their affiliated organizations and 
others can begin to collaborate within their fields (e.g. health, law, 
education) and respective networks. If cities and affiliates work 
together, resources may be directed and redirected toward effective, 
research based prevention strategies and programs. It emphasizes the 
need to disseminate scientifically validated studies and to provide 
resources and incentives for their implementation.
    For the purposes of this program announcement the following 
definitions apply:
    Change Agents: Leaders who mark a path for others to follow. Change 
agents may be inside an organization or come from an outside source. 
They play a key role in sustaining the momentum and direction of a 
youth violence prevention effort.
    City: An incorporated municipality with a population greater than 
400,000 in the United States with definite boundaries and legal powers 
set forth in a charter granted by the state.
    Consortium: An agreement, combination, or group formed to undertake 
an enterprise beyond the resources of any one member.
    Dissemination: The process of communicating information to specific 
audiences for the purpose of extending knowledge and with a view to 
adopting or modifying evidence-based programs, policies and practices. 
This can include providing access to information and telling a wider 
audience about a project and its results. Dissemination can occur 
through but is not limited to seminars, newsletters, press releases and 
similar methods.
    Ecological Approach: The ecological model presented in the World 
Report on Violence and Health \5\ identifies levels (individual, 
relationship, community and societal) of influence where strategies to 
address risk and protective factors can be detected.
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    \5\ Krug EG, Dahlberg LL, Mercy JA, Zwi AB, Lozano R, editors. 
World Report on Violence and Health. Geneva: World Health 
Organization; 2002.
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    Framing: The process by which person(s) or organization(s) 
communicate--using language and visuals--that signals the way receivers 
shape thoughts, create context or interpret and classify new 
information. Framing helps receivers of a message classify and 
attribute meaning to a topic, message or issue. The practice of framing 
is carried out most often in the media dictating the problem, context 
and responsibility for the issue.
    Intervention: Services, policies and actions provided after 
violence perpetrated toward or among youth have occurred and may have 
the advantageous effect of preventing a re-occurrence of violence.
    Prevention Campaign: The total planned, coordinated effort on 
behalf of the awardee to research, assess, develop, coordinate, and 
evaluate frame(s), tools, training, and products that lead to the 
adoption of evidence based youth violence prevention principles, 
practices, and concepts. This includes established goals, time 
parameters and performance measurements.
    Primary Prevention: Population-based and/or environmental/system 
level strategies, policies and action that prevent violence from 
initially occurring. Prevention efforts work to modify and/or entirely 
eliminate the event, conditions, situations, or exposure to influences 
(risk factors) that result in the initiation of violence and associated 
injuries, disabilities and deaths. Additionally, prevention efforts 
seek to identify and enhance protective factors that may prevent 
violence, not only in at-risk populations but also in the community at 
large. Prevention efforts for violence perpetrated toward and among 
youth include activities that are aimed at addressing the individual, 
relationship, community and societal factors of potential perpetrators, 
bystanders and victims.
    Public Health Approach: The public health approach has four basic 
steps:
    1. Defining the problem: Collecting information and data about the 
problem.
    2. Identifying risk and protective factors: Knowing those factors 
which place people at a greater potential risk for violence and 
recognizing which factors seem to protect them from violent behavior.
    3. Developing and testing prevention strategies: Before 
implementing programs, it is important to first carefully design and 
evaluate interventions. While this may take more time and effort than 
other approaches, it is important to ensure that programs are safe, 
practical and ethical.
    4. Ensuring widespread adoption: Strategies and action steps must 
be specifically defined for the needs of stakeholders. Interventions 
should be realistic, measurable and easy to replicate for 
sustainability.
    Stakeholders: Includes everyone with a potential interest in youth 
violence prevention, practices, concepts and research.
    Youth Violence: Youth violence involves persons between the ages of 
10 and 24 who intentionally use physical force or power threatened or 
actual, against another person, or against a group or community, that 
either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, 
death, psychological harm, mal-development or deprivation.\6\
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    \6\ Krug EG, Dahlberg LL, Mercy JA, Zwi AB, Lozano R, editors. 
World Report on Violence and Health. Geneva: World Health 
Organization; 2002.
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    Purpose: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 
announces the availability of fiscal year (FY) 2005 funds for a 
cooperative agreement to build capacity within U.S. cities to 
collaborate, plan, and implement youth violence prevention principles, 
practices, and concepts. This includes building a national consortium 
of key stakeholders representing the viewpoints of United States cities 
that can inform and support reframing the public discourse about youth 
violence prevention. This also includes developing tools, strategies, 
and messages to build infrastructure and a broad base of support for 
youth violence prevention and develop a national strategy to direct 
urban planning and action to prevent youth violence.
    This program addresses the ``Healthy People 2010'' focus area of 
injury and violence prevention, as well as related goals in the CDC 
Futures Initiative:

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     Health promotion and prevention of disease, injury and 
disability: All people, especially those at higher risk due to health 
disparities, will achieve their optimal lifespan with the best possible 
quality of health in every stage of life.
     Leadership for the nation's health system. CDC will assume 
greater leadership to strengthen the health impact of the state and 
local public health systems.
    Measurable outcomes of the program will be in alignment with the 
following performance goal for the National Center for Injury 
Prevention and Control (NCIPC): to increase the capacity of injury 
prevention and control programs to address the prevention of injuries 
and violence.

Activities

    Awardee activities are designed to integrate youth violence 
prevention practices and concepts into a national effort to address 
youth violence within U.S. cities and assist key stakeholders, policy 
leaders, and practitioners in adopting sustainable youth violence 
prevention efforts. It is anticipated that the project will be 
completed in two phases.
    Phase I involves identifying key stakeholders, convening a 
consortium and developing a frame to build support for and address the 
prevention of youth violence within U.S. cities.
    Phase II involves developing and disseminating a National Youth 
Violence Prevention Strategic Plan, utilizing the national frame and 
outlining specific steps for addressing youth violence prevention. 
These projects will use proven and potentially promising coalition 
building, framing, and public health advocacy and information 
dissemination methodologies to promote youth violence prevention. All 
program components shall foster cooperation, collaboration and 
communication between public and private organizations, government 
agencies, state and city health departments, NCIPC partners and 
grantees and others in their efforts to prevent youth violence and 
reduce violence-related injuries.

Phase I: Assessment and Framing

    Awardee activities for this phase are as follows:
    1. Establish a national youth violence prevention consortium.
    a. Conduct a national assessment of organizations to determine key 
stakeholders for urban youth violence prevention efforts including 
those involved in youth violence prevention, youth development, 
violence prevention, public health, community development and other 
relevant groups. Examples may include but are not limited to the 
National League of Cities, National Association of City and County 
Health Officials, The Association of State and Territorial Health 
Officers, National Civic League, U.S. Conference of Mayors and the 
National Association of Cities.
    2. Convene and coordinate the activities of the consortium.
    At a minimum these activities should include the following:
    a. The establishment of operating and administrative guidelines and 
principles (e.g. defining membership, by-laws, goals and objectives, 
etc)
    b. A review of existing assessments and recommendations to address 
gaps in youth violence prevention within U.S. cities. The areas of 
assessment to be considered should include but are not limited to:
    i. Evidence of level of commitment, interest and readiness at the 
city level to fully engage in efforts to prevent the perpetration of 
violence toward or among youth.
    ii. Existing inventories of city programs that work directly or 
indirectly to prevent the perpetration of violence toward or among 
youth (at minimum, this should include the number of prevention 
programs, intended audience, content and resources devoted to the 
programs).
    iii. Existing assessments of city and relevant national policies 
focused on preventing the perpetration of violence toward or among 
youth.
    iv. Existing assessments of city and relevant national data sources 
that identify violent incidents perpetrated toward and among youth, 
including non-traditional data sources such as linked health-outcomes.
    3. Prepare a report that summarizes the findings. This report 
should identify gaps, needs, and highlight recommendations from the 
consortium based on this review.
    4. Develop a national frame for prevention of youth violence in U.S 
cities:
    a. The frame should address environmental, relational, community 
and societal risk and protective factors for youth violence and assist 
in conveying that violence is a preventable public health issue.
    b. The awardee should consult the youth violence prevention 
consortium and additional key stakeholders in youth violence prevention 
including national, state, and city leaders, professional 
organizations, public health officials and other relevant parties.
    c. The frame should be established using proven framing 
methodologies and practices.
    d. The frame should assure the delivery of credible, science-based 
information in understandable and effective formats consistent with the 
needs of key stakeholders and target audiences.
    5. Develop a national youth violence prevention campaign that is a 
planned, coordinated effort on behalf of the awardee to research, 
assess, develop, coordinate, and evaluate frame(s), tools, training, 
and products that lead to the adoption of youth violence prevention 
principles, practices, and concepts.
    a. The prevention campaign should build a broad base of support for 
youth violence prevention by creating tools, training and products that 
lead to the adoption of evidence based youth violence prevention 
principles, practices and concepts.
    b. The prevention campaign should include a tool kit that 
highlights strategies and tactics for framing youth violence 
prevention. This should include research briefs, an explanation of the 
frame(s) with suggestions specific to each message or topic idea (i.e. 
messengers, metaphors, context, etc.), and applicable examples 
including demo press releases, publications and publicity ideas. The 
toolkit should have an evaluation to determine its usability and 
effectiveness in promoting the adoption of evidence based strategies.
    c. Evaluate the frame and prevention campaign using assessments 
that measure the influence and within U.S. cities. Items should include 
but are not limited to:
    i. Key stakeholders awareness of the youth violence prevention 
frame, messages, tools and strategies.
    ii. City and stakeholder collaboration--Number of cities and 
affiliated groups using the youth violence prevention frame, messages, 
tools and strategies.
    iii. Changes in youth violence programs, policies, and practices of 
cities and their affiliated organizations--How much and what kind of 
stimulus does the youth violence prevention frame, messages, tools and 
strategies have in influencing cities to plan and implement youth 
violence prevention programs, policies?
    iv. Frequency and number of alternative activities generated by 
cities and their affiliated organizations to decrease risk factors and 
increase protective factors for youth violence prevention.

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Phase II: Development and dissemination of a National Youth Violence 
Prevention Strategic Plan

    Awardee activities for this phase are as follows:
    1. Develop a National Youth Violence Prevention Strategic Plan. At 
a minimum this program should:
    a. Specify steps and directions for cities to address youth 
violence prevention.
    b. Include a logic model and time-line outlining implementation
    c. Delineate priorities for addressing youth violence prevention 
with practical implications and immediate relevance for those working 
to advance evidence based youth violence prevention principles, 
practices, concepts and research.
    d. Utilize the youth violence prevention campaign by providing 
effective frames for addressing youth violence prevention including 
methods and messages that engage cities throughout the nation.
    e. Include communication processes to ensure effective dialog and 
consensus across and among the youth violence prevention stakeholders.
    f. Adopt and outline sustainable strategies for cities to address 
youth violence prevention in alignment with ecological approach.
    g. Include short-term, intermediate and long-term SMART (specific, 
measurable, attainable, realistic and time-phased) goals and 
objectives.
    h. Reinforce and support previously established youth violence 
prevention infrastructures, such as the National Youth Violence 
Prevention Resource Center, including outlining partnerships that will 
enhance youth violence prevention efforts within U.S. cities.
    i. Include an evaluation component that has outcome and impact 
measures assessing how much and what kind of stimulus the National 
Youth Violence Prevention Strategic Plan creates. Items should include 
but are not limited to:
    i. Process evaluation for planning and implementation--Assessment 
of the planning process used to prepare the National Youth Violence 
Prevention Strategic Plan goals and the action plan and follow-through 
on National Youth Violence Prevention Strategic Plan activities.
    ii. Leadership--Participation by key sectors representing U.S. 
cities and ascertaining the diversity of committee membership as well 
as assessment of cities' perceptions of the strength and competence of 
the National Youth Violence Prevention Strategic Plan's leadership.
    iii. Progress and Outcome--Success in generating resources for 
youth violence prevention and progress in meeting the strategic plan's 
specific objectives.
    2. Disseminate the National Youth Violence Prevention Strategic 
Plan
    a. Dissemination should include strategies to implement evidence 
based youth violence prevention principles, practices and concepts, and 
build a broad base of support to effectively address youth violence 
prevention.
    b. Work with key stakeholders and the National Youth Violence 
Prevention Resource Center to provide training and technical assistance 
in the areas of communication, advocacy and health education strategies 
(e.g., social marketing, health and risk communications and media 
relations) in the support of the strategic plan.
    c. Network with private foundations, media, policy makers, public 
health entities and other organizations to identify, promote and 
distribute the national strategic plan for youth violence prevention.
    d. Include promotional and educational materials, media strategies, 
outreach efforts and public relations strategies to disseminate the 
plan.
    e. Include evaluation measures or tools to assess the extent to 
which the strategic plan has been implemented. The measures/tools 
should be of value to cities in collecting baseline and follow-up data 
on youth violence prevention programs, the dissemination of evidence 
based principles, practices, and concepts and youth violence related 
health impacts; and should include process and impact measures and 
quantitative and qualitative measures that monitor the implementation 
of proposed activities.
    3. Collaborate with CDC and other partners on an ongoing basis.
    4. Submit required reports to CDC as scheduled.
    In a cooperative agreement, CDC staff is substantially involved in 
the program activities, above and beyond routine grant monitoring.
    CDC Activities for this program are as follows:
     As appropriate, coordinate opportunities for funded 
applicants and partners to network with other NCIPC funded national 
organizations.
     Provide consultation and technical assistance in planning, 
implementing and evaluating activities. CDC may provide consultation 
both directly and indirectly through other partners.
     Provide up-to-date scientific information on youth 
violence surveillance, risk and protective factors and effective 
programs, as well as findings from formative research.
     Assist in the design and implementation of program 
evaluation activities.
     Facilitate the transfer of successful program models and 
``lessons learned'' through convening meetings of grantees and 
communication between project officers.
     Monitor the recipient's performance of program activities 
and compliance with requirements.
     Involve the recipient in other NCIPC related youth 
violence prevention activities and efforts.

II. Award Information

    Type of Award: Cooperative Agreement. CDC involvement in this 
program is listed in the Activities Section above.
    Fiscal Year Funds: 2005.
    Approximate Total Funding: $300,000 (** Awards in Yrs. 3-5 funding 
levels may increase to up to $500,000 for related activities).
    Approximate Number of Awards: One.
    Approximate Average Award: $300,000 (This amount is for the first 
12-month budget period, and includes both direct and indirect costs.)
    Floor of Award Range: $250,000.
    Ceiling of Award Range: $300,000 (This ceiling is for the first 12-
month budget period.)
    Anticipated Award Date: September 1, 2005.
    Budget Period Length: 12 months.
    Project Period Length: Two years with a possibility for five years 
total. (An initial two-year project period is specified with the 
anticipation of an additional three years with years 3, 4, and 5 
contingent on the accomplishment of very specific outcomes in years 1 
and 2)
    Milestones and success necessary to continue into Years 3, 4, and 5
     The awardee has identified key stakeholders and has 
established a national youth violence prevention consortium.
     The awardee is supporting the activities of a consortium 
including establishment of operating and administrative guidelines and 
principles (e. g. by-laws, goals and objectives, etc).
     The awardee has completed, in conjunction with the 
consortium, a review of existing city assessments and has facilitated 
making recommendations for steps to address gaps in youth violence 
prevention,
     The awardee has prepared a report summarizing the 
findings, identifying gaps and needs and highlighting recommendations 
from the consortium.
     The awardee has developed a frame, using methodologically 
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approaches approved by CDC, to build support for and to address youth 
violence prevention within U.S. cities.
     The awardee has developed an evaluation plan that collects 
the baseline and follow-up data necessary to assess the impact of the 
frame.
    Throughout the project period, CDC's commitment to continuation of 
awards will also be conditioned on the availability of funds, and the 
determination that continued funding is in the best interest of the 
Federal Government.

III. Eligibility Information

III.1. Eligible Applicants

    Applications may be submitted by public and private organizations 
that have the expertise, experience and capacity to develop and 
implement programs to prevent youth violence at the national level. 
Organizations, such as:
     Public nonprofit organizations.
     Private nonprofit organizations.
     For profit organizations.
     Small, minority, women-owned businesses.
     Universities.
     Colleges.
     Research institutions.
     Hospitals.
     Community-based organizations.
     Faith-based organizations.
     Federally recognized Indian tribal governments.
     Indian tribes.
     Indian tribal organizations.
     State and local governments or their Bona Fide Agents 
(this includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico, The Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the 
Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau).
     Political subdivisions of States (in consultation with 
states).
    A Bona Fide Agent is an agency/organization identified by the state 
as eligible to submit an application under the state eligibility in 
lieu of a state application. If you are applying as a bona fide agent 
of a state or local government, you must provide a letter from the 
state or local government as documentation of your status. Place this 
documentation behind the first page of your application form.

III.2. Cost Sharing or Matching

    Matching funds are not required for this program.

III.3. Other

    If you request a funding amount greater than the ceiling of the 
award range, your application will be considered non-responsive, and 
will not be entered into the review process. You will be notified that 
your application did not meet the submission requirements.

Special Requirements

    If your application is incomplete or non-responsive to the special 
requirements listed in this section, it will not be entered into the 
review process. You will be notified that your application did not meet 
submission requirements.
     Late applications will be considered non-responsive. See 
section ``IV.3. Submission Dates and Times'' for more information on 
deadlines.

     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.

IV. Application and Submission Information

IV. 1. Address to Request Application Package

    To apply for this funding opportunity use application form PHS 
5161-1.

Electronic Submission

    CDC strongly encourages you to submit your application 
electronically by utilizing the forms and instructions posted for this 
announcement on www.Grants.gov, the official Federal agency wide E-
grant Web site. Only applicants who apply online are permitted to 
forego paper copy submission of all application forms.

Paper Submission

    Application forms and instructions are available on the CDC web 
site, 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 
(PGO-TIM) staff at: 770-488-2700. Application forms can be mailed to 
you.

IV.2. Content and Form of Submission

Letter of Intent (LOI)

    Your LOI must be written in the following format:
     Maximum number of pages: Two.
     Font size: 12-point unreduced.
     Paper size: 8.5 by 11 inches.
     Single spaced.
     Page margin size: One inch.
     Printed only on one side of page.
     Written in plain language, avoid jargon.
    Your LOI must contain the following information:
     Number and title of this Program Announcement.
     Brief description of your organization including the 
component(s) of youth violence prevention that your organization 
addresses.
     Organizational structure and reach.

Application

Electronic Submission

    You may submit your application electronically at: www.grants.gov. 
Applications completed online through Grants.gov are considered 
formally submitted when the applicant organization's Authorizing 
Official electronically submits the application to www.grants.gov. 
Electronic applications will be considered as having met the deadline 
if the application has been submitted electronically by the applicant 
organization's Authorizing Official to Grants.gov on or before the 
deadline date and time.
    It is strongly recommended that you submit your grant application 
using Microsoft Office products (e.g., Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, 
etc.). If you do not have access to Microsoft Office products, you may 
submit a PDF file. Directions for creating PDF files can be found on 
the Grants.gov Web site. Use of file formats other than Microsoft 
Office or PDF may result in your file being unreadable by our staff.
    CDC recommends that you submit your application to Grants.gov early 
enough to resolve any unanticipated difficulties prior to the deadline. 
You may also submit a back-up paper submission of your application. Any 
such paper submission must be received in accordance with the 
requirements for timely submission detailed in Section IV.3. of the 
grant announcement. The paper submission must be clearly marked: 
``BACK-UP FOR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION.'' The paper submission must 
conform with all requirements for non-electronic submissions. If both 
electronic and back-up paper submissions are received by the deadline, 
the electronic version will be considered the official submission.

Paper Submission

    If you plan to submit your application by hard copy, submit the 
original and two hard copies of your application by mail or express 
delivery service. Refer to section IV.6. Other Submission Requirements 
for submission address.
    You must submit a project narrative with your application forms. 
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narrative must be submitted in the following format:
     Maximum number of pages: 30 If your narrative exceeds the 
page limit, only the first pages which are within the page limit will 
be reviewed.
     Font size: 12 point unreduced.
     Spacing: Double spaced.
     Paper size: 8.5 by 11 inches.
     Page margin size: One inch.
     Printed only on one side of page.
     Held together only by rubber bands or metal clips; not 
bound in any other way.
    Your narrative should address activities to be conducted over the 
entire project period and must include the following items in the order 
listed here:
     Abstract (one-page summary of the application that 
includes a description of applicant's plan for participating in this 
cooperative agreement).
     Relevant Experience (framing violence as a public health 
issue, strategic planning, national level awareness campaigns and 
coalition building, dissemination that has resulted in widespread 
adoption of youth violence prevention principles, practices, concepts 
and research).
     Work plan (including time phased, measurable objectives; 
methods or strategies; timelines; logic models and staffing plan).
     Capacity and Staffing (a minimum of one, 100 percent, 
fulltime, program director position is required).
     Collaboration.
     Measures of Effectiveness.
     Budget justification (does not count towards page limit).
    Additional information may be included in the application 
appendices. The appendices will not be counted toward the narrative 
page limit. This additional information includes:
     Proof of eligibility.
     Curriculum Vitas or Resumes.
     Organizational Charts.
     Letters of Support.
    You are required to have a Dun and Bradstreet Data Universal 
Numbering System (DUNS) number to apply for a grant or cooperative 
agreement from the Federal government. The DUNS number is a nine-digit 
identification number, which uniquely identifies business entities. 
Obtaining a DUNS number is easy and there is no charge. To obtain a 
DUNS number, access www.dunandbradstreet.com or call 1-866-705-5711.
    For more information, see the CDC Web site at: http://www.cdc. gov/
od/pgo/funding/pubcommt.htm.
    If your application form does not have a DUNS number field, please 
write your DUNS number at the top of the first page of your application 
and/or include your DUNS number in your application cover letter.
    Additional requirements that may require you to submit additional 
documentation with your application are listed in section ``VI.2. 
Administrative and National Policy Requirements.''

IV.3. Submission Dates and Times

    LOI Deadline Date: April 1, 2005.
    CDC requests that you send a LOI if you intend to apply for this 
program. Although the LOI is not required, not binding and does not 
enter into the review of your subsequent application, the LOI will be 
used to gauge the level of interest in this program and to allow CDC to 
plan the application review.
    Application Deadline Date: May 2, 2005.
    Explanation of Deadlines: LOIs and Applications must be received in 
the CDC Procurement and Grants Office by 4 p.m. Eastern Time on the 
deadline date. If you submit your LOI or application by the United 
States Postal Service or commercial delivery service, you must ensure 
that the carrier will be able to guarantee delivery by the closing date 
and time. If CDC receives your submission after closing due to: (1) 
carrier error, when the carrier accepted the package with a guarantee 
for delivery by the closing date and time, or (2) significant weather 
delays or natural disasters, you will be given the opportunity to 
submit documentation of the carriers guarantee.
    If the documentation verifies a carrier problem, CDC will consider 
the submission as having been received by the deadline.
    This announcement is the definitive guide on LOI and application 
content, submission address and deadline. It supersedes information 
provided in the application instructions. If your submission does not 
meet the deadline above, it will not be eligible for review and will be 
discarded. You will be notified that you did not meet the submission 
requirements.

Electronic Submission

    If you submit your application electronically with Grants.gov, your 
application will be electronically time/date stamped which will serve 
as receipt of submission. In turn, you will receive an e-mail notice of 
receipt when CDC receives the application. All electronic applications 
must be submitted by 4 p.m. Eastern Time on the application due date.

Paper Submission

    CDC will not notify you upon receipt of your paper submission. If 
you have a question about the receipt of your LOI or application, first 
contact your courier. If you still have a question, contact the PGO-TIM 
staff at: 770-488-2700. Before calling, please wait two to three days 
after the submission deadline. This will allow time for submissions to 
be processed and logged.

IV.4. Intergovernmental Review of Applications

    Executive Order 12372 does not apply to this program.

IV.5. Funding Restrictions

    Restrictions, which must be taken into account while writing your 
budget, are as follows:
     Funds for this project cannot be used for construction, 
renovation, the lease of passenger vehicles, the development of major 
software applications, or supplanting current applicant expenditures.
     Funds may not be used for reimbursement of pre-award 
costs.
     The applicant must perform a substantial portion of the 
program activities and cannot serve merely as a fiduciary agent. 
Applications requesting funds to support only managerial and 
administrative functions will not be accepted.
     Budgets for the first year should include travel costs for 
two cooperative agreement staff to attend two 2-day planning meetings 
in Atlanta with CDC staff and/or other cooperative agreement 
recipients.
     The use of program funds for the development and 
production of curriculum is prohibited without explicit approval.
    If you are requesting indirect costs in your budget, you must 
include a copy of your indirect cost rate agreement. If your indirect 
cost rate is a provisional rate, the agreement should be less than 12 
months of age.
    Guidance for completing your budget can be found on the CDC web 
site, at the following Internet address: http://www.cdc. gov/od/pgo/
funding/budgetguide. htm.

IV.6. Other Submission Requirements

    LOI Submission Address: Submit your LOI by express mail, delivery 
service, fax, or E-mail to: Neil Rainford, Project Officer, CDC, 
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2939 Flowers Road 
South, Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone Number: 770-488-1122, Fax Number: 
770-488-1360, E-mail: NRainford@cdc. gov.

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Application Submission Address

Electronic Submission

    CDC strongly encourages applicants to submit electronically at: 
www.Grants.gov. You will be able to download a copy of the application 
package from www.Grants.gov, complete it offline, and then upload and 
submit the application via the Grants.gov site. E-mail submissions will 
not be accepted. If you are having technical difficulties in Grants.gov 
they can be reached by E-mail at [email protected] or by phone at 
1-800-518-4726 (1-800-518-GRANTS). The Customer Support Center is open 
from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.

Paper Submission

    If you chose to submit a paper application, submit the original and 
two hard copies of your application by mail or express delivery service 
to: Technical Information Management-RFA 05042, CDC Procurement and 
Grants Office, 2920 Brandywine Road, Atlanta, GA 30341.

V. Application Review Information

V.1. Criteria

    Applicants are required to provide measures of effectiveness that 
will demonstrate the accomplishment of the various identified 
objectives of the cooperative agreement. Measures of effectiveness must 
relate to the performance goals stated in the ``Purpose'' section of 
this announcement. Measures must be objective and quantitative and must 
measure the intended outcome. These measures of effectiveness must be 
submitted with the application and will be an element of evaluation.
    Your application will be evaluated against the following criteria:
Work Plan (30 points)
    1. Does the applicant include a detailed work plan, including a 
time-line, logic model(s) and staffing plan?
    2. Does the work plan include goals and objectives that are SMART 
(specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-phased)?
    3. Does the applicant's work plan consider and highlight a 
ecological approach?
    4. Does the applicant's work plan outline successful ways to 
involve the youth violence prevention consortium, key stakeholders in 
youth violence prevention and the National Youth Violence Prevention 
Resource Center?
    5. Does the applicant's work plan outline outstanding processes for 
establishing an evidence based frame that assures the delivery of 
credible, evidence based information in understandable and effective 
formats consistent with the needs of the target audiences?
    6. Does the work plan include superior methods and evidence based 
strategies that meet goals and objectives as well as address how it 
will engage and mobilize key stakeholders including policy makers, 
public health officials and/or city affiliated organizations?
    7. Does the applicant's work plan include a superior evaluation to 
monitor outcomes and impact?
Relevant Experience (25 Points)
    1. Does the applicant demonstrate successful experiences in 
collecting and using evidence based youth violence prevention 
assessment data?
    2. Does the applicant have appropriate experience using relevant 
data and research to determine priorities and a frame for youth 
violence prevention?
    3. Does the applicant demonstrate a minimum of three years 
experience coordinating, collaborating, and mobilizing national and 
affiliated city partners with regard to violence prevention or a 
component of violence prevention?
    4. Does the applicant demonstrate effective experience interacting 
with key stakeholders to provide leadership, support and facilitate the 
sharing of information across a network of youth violence prevention 
coalitions?
    5. Does the applicant demonstrate outstanding experience developing 
strategic plans?
    6. Does he applicant demonstrate exceptional experience in 
establishing and managing advisory boards or consortiums with 
participants from a variety of sectors?
    7. Does the applicant demonstrate outstanding experience in 
compiling, synthesizing and disseminating youth violence prevention 
information and evaluation findings through a variety of mediums to key 
stakeholders, including policy makers, the non-profit sector, public 
health officials and/or local/city organizations?
    8. Does the applicant demonstrate outstanding ability to coordinate 
and disseminate youth violence prevention principles, practices, 
concepts and research?
    9. Has the applicant demonstrated that these dissemination efforts 
resulted in the successful and widespread adoption of youth violence 
prevention, practices, concepts and research?
    10. Does the applicant demonstrate outstanding ability to frame 
violence as a public health issue and use that frame to engage key 
stakeholders including policy makers, the non-profit sector, public 
health officials and/or local/city organizations?
    11. Does the applicant include the establishment of a youth 
violence prevention consortium?
Collaboration (25 points)
    1. Does the applicant describe lucrative strategies to develop and 
maintain a national youth violence prevention consortium?
    2. Does the applicant successfully describe how it will avoid 
duplication of other youth violence prevention efforts?
    3. Does the applicant demonstrate a willingness to collaborate with 
CDC, the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center and other 
CDC funded organizations?
    4. Does the applicant include letters of support and/or memoranda 
of agreement from organizations, research and/or academic experts/
institutions and other agencies and organizations, including public 
health agencies and organizations that work with youth and/or violence 
prevention?
    5. Does the applicant provide high-quality descriptions of the 
composition, role and involvement of consortium members that represent 
a broad range of disciplines and levels of influence that work in the 
area of violence prevention including public health?
Capacity and Staffing (20 points)
    1. Does the applicant demonstrate relevant, existing capacity and 
infrastructure to carry out the required activities in the cooperative 
agreement?
    2. Does the applicant include and outline the role of one, 
100percent, fulltime, program director with relevant experience?
    3. Does the applicant clearly describe all project staff and their 
relevant skills/expertise for their assigned position? Does the 
applicant include an organizational chart?
    4. Are the applicant's past and current training and assistance 
experiences, knowledge and expertise documented, lucrative, and 
relevant?
    5. Does the applicant successfully demonstrate a capacity to 
develop a consortium by providing training and technical assistance for 
the purpose of promoting public health initiatives?
    6. Does the applicant successfully demonstrate the ability and 
highlight relevant connections to successfully identify, modify, 
promote and distribute the youth violence prevention campaign and 
strategic plan to private foundations, media, policy makers and public 
health entities/organizations?

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Measures of Effectiveness (not scored)
    1. Does the applicant provide lucrative objective/quantifiable 
measures regarding the intended outcomes that will demonstrate the 
accomplishment of the various identified objectives of the cooperative 
agreement?
    2. Does the evaluation demonstrate how the goals and objectives 
will successfully increase the capacity of injury prevention and 
control programs to address the prevention of injuries and violence?
Budget Justification (not scored)
    1. Does the applicant provide a detailed budget with complete line-
item justification of all proposed costs consistent with the stated 
activities in the program announcement? Details must include a 
breakdown in the categories of personnel (with time allocations for 
each), staff travel, communications and postage, equipment, supplies 
and any other costs? Does the budget projection include a narrative 
justification for all requested costs? Any sources of additional 
funding beyond the amount stipulated in this cooperative agreement 
should be indicated, including donated time or services. For each 
expense category, the budget should indicate CDC share, the applicant 
share and any other support. These funds should not be used to supplant 
existing efforts.

V.2. Review and Selection Process

    Applications will be reviewed for completeness by the Procurement 
and Grants Office (PGO) staff and for responsiveness by NCIPC. 
Incomplete applications and applications that are non-responsive to the 
eligibility criteria will not advance through the review process. 
Applicants will be notified that their application did not meet 
submission requirements.
    An objective review panel will evaluate complete and responsive 
applications according to the criteria listed in the ``V.1. Criteria'' 
section above.
    CDC will provide justification for any decision to fund out of rank 
order.

VI. Award Administration Information

VI.1. Award Notices

    Successful applicants will receive a Notice of Award (NOA) from the 
CDC Procurement and Grants Office. The NOA shall be the only binding, 
authorizing document between the recipient and CDC. The NOA will be 
signed by an authorized Grants Management Officer and mailed to the 
recipient fiscal officer identified in the application.
    Unsuccessful applicants will receive notification of the results of 
the application review by mail.

VI.2. Administrative and National Policy Requirements

45 CFR Part 74 and Part 92
    For more information on the Code of Federal Regulations, see the 
National Archives and Records Administration at the following Internet 
address: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search. html.
    An additional Certifications form from the PHS5161-1 application 
needs to be included in your Grants.gov electronic submission only. 
Refer to http://www.cdc. gov/od/pgo/funding/PHS5161-1-Certificates.pdf. 
Once the form is filled out attach it to your Grants.gov submission as 
Other Attachments Form.
    The following additional requirements apply to this project:

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-15 Proof of Non-Profit Status

    Additional information on these requirements can be found on the 
CDC web site at the following Internet address: http://www.cdc. gov/od/
pgo/funding/ARs.htm.

VI.3. Reporting Requirements

    You must provide CDC with an original, plus two hard copies of the 
following reports:
    1. Interim progress report, due no less than 90 days before the end 
of the budget period. The progress report will serve as your non-
competing continuation application and must contain the following 
elements:
    a. Current Budget Period Activities Objectives.
    b. Current Budget Period Financial Progress.
    c. New Budget Period Program Proposed Activity Objectives.
    d. Budget.
    e. Measures of Effectiveness.
    f. Additional Requested Information.
    2. Financial status report is due no more than 90 days after the 
end of the budget period.
    3. Final financial and performance reports are due no more than 90 
days after the end of the project period.
    These reports must be mailed to the Grants Management Specialist 
listed in the ``Agency Contacts'' section of this announcement.

VII. Agency Contacts

    We encourage inquiries concerning this announcement.
    For general questions, contact: Technical Information Management 
Section, CDC Procurement and Grants Office, 2920 Brandywine Road, 
Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone: 770-488-2700.
    For program technical assistance, contact: Neil Rainford, Project 
Officer, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2939 
Flowers Road South, Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone Number: 770-488-1122, 
Fax Number: 770-488-1360, E-mail: NRainford@cdc. gov.
    For financial, grants management, or budget assistance, contact: 
James Masone, Grants Management Specialist, CDC Procurement and Grants 
Office, 2920 Brandywine Road, Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone: 770-488-
2736, E-mail: Zft2@cdc. gov.

VIII. Other Information

    This and other CDC funding opportunity announcements can be found 
on the CDC Web site, Internet address: http://www.cdc. gov. Click on 
``Funding'' then ``Grants and Cooperative Agreements.''

    Dated: February 23, 2005.
William P. Nichols,
Director, Procurement and Grants Office, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 05-3981 Filed 3-1-05; 8:45 am]
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