[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 92 (Friday, May 11, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27781-27783]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-11377]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Non-Competitive One-Year Extension With Funds for State Early 
Childhood Comprehensive Systems Grantees

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

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ACTION: Notice of a Non-Competitive One-Year Extension With Funds for 
State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) (H-25) Grantees.

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SUMMARY: The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will 
be issuing a non-competitive one-year extension with funds for the 
current grantees of the State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems 
Program. Up to $150,000 per grantee will be awarded over a one-year 
extended project period. The State Early Childhood Comprehensive 
Systems (ECCS) Grant Program ensures the healthy physical, social, and 
emotional development of children (birth to five years of age) by 
supporting statewide collaborations of early childhood service 
providers to create a seamless system of early childhood services for 
young children and their families. Each ECCS grantee is an active 
member, and in some cases these grantees hold a leadership role in 
their early childhood multi-agency State teams. Together, such teams 
have developed Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Plans that guide 
the development, implementation, governance, and financing of their 
States' early childhood service systems. The State team activities 
associated with these plans, and the comprehensive systems they 
describe, also include the identification and implementation of early 
childhood systems best-practice models, as well as the development of 
human resources and policies to support these practices. This extension 
with funds will allow HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) to 
align its early childhood systems-building activities with HRSA's 
Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program, 
the State Advisory Councils (SACs) and other early childhood 
initiatives under the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), 
the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's 
(SAMHSA) Project LAUNCH, and the Department of Education's Race to the 
Top (RTT).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Grantees of record and intended award 
amounts are:

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                                                                                     FY2011           FY2012
       Grantee organization name             Grant No.            State            authorized       estimated
                                                                                 funding level    funding level
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Alabama department of public health....      H25MC00238C0  AL                       $150,000.00      $150,000.00
Arizona Early Childhood Development and      H25MC17140A0  AZ                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Health Board.
Arkansas Department of Health..........      H25MC00265C0  AR                        150,000.00       150,000.00
California Department of Public Health.      H25MC08762B0  CA                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Colorado State Department/Public Health      H25MC00228C0  CO                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 & Environment.
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana         H25MC06112B0  MP                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Islands.
Delaware Health & Social Services......      H25MC00253C0  DE                        150,000.00       150,000.00
District of Columbia/Department of           H25MC00241C0  DC                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Health.
Florida State Department of Health.....      H25MC01320C0  FL                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Georgia Department of Community Health.      H25MC16260A0  GA                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Idaho State Department of Health and         H25MC00245C0  ID                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Welfare.
Illinois Department of Human Services..      H25MC00247C0  IL                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Indiana State Department of Health.....      H25MC00263C0  IN                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Iowa Department of Public Health.......      H25MC00230C0  IA                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Kansas State Department of Health and        H25MC00234C0  KS                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Environment.
Kentucky Cabinet for Health Services...      H25MC00255C0  KY                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Louisiana State Department of Health &       H25MC00271C0  LA                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Hospitals.
Maine Department of Human Services.....      H25MC00266C0  ME                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Maryland Department of Health & Mental       H25MC00273C0  MD                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Hygiene.
Massachusetts Department of Public           H25MC00262C0  MA                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Health.
Michigan Department of Community Health      H25MC00252C0  MI                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Minnesota Department of Health.........      H25MC00276C0  MN                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Missouri Department of Health..........      H25MC01327C0  MO                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Montana Department of Public Health and      H25MC06098B0  MT                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Human Services.
North Carolina Department of Health and      H25MC00259C0  NC                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Human Services.
Nevada Department of Human Resources...      H25MC00229C0  NV                        150,000.00       150,000.00
New Jersey State Department of Health        H25MC00248C0  NJ                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 and Senior Services.
New Mexico State Department of Health..      H25MC00236C0  NM                        150,000.00       150,000.00
New York State Office of Children and        H25MC12970A0  NY                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Family Services.
North Dakota State Department of Health      H25MC00237D0  ND                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Oklahoma State Department of Health....      H25MC01323C0  OK                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Oregon State Department of Human             H25MC00269C0  OR                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Services.
Puerto Rico Department of Health.......      H25MC00274C0  PR                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Republic of Palau Bureau of Health           H25MC00277C0  PW                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Services.
State of Alaska Department of Health &       H25MC01326C0  AK                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Social Services.
State of Connecticut...................      H25MC01329C0  CT                        150,000.00       150,000.00
State of Hawaii Department of Health...      H25MC00278C0  HI                        150,000.00       150,000.00
State of Nebraska......................      H25MC00240C0  NE                        150,000.00       150,000.00
State of New Hampshire.................      H25MC00249C0  NH                        150,000.00       150,000.00
State of Ohio-Department of Health.....      H25MC01324C0  OH                        150,000.00       150,000.00
State of Rhode Island Department of          H25MC00270C0  RI                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Health.
State of South Carolina................      H25MC06113B0  SC                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Tennessee State Department of Health...      H25MC00260C0  TN                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Texas Health & Human Services                H25MC03383C0  TX                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Commission.
University of Guam.....................      H25MC18121A0  GU                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Utah Department of Health..............      H25MC00268C0  UT                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Vermont State Department of Health.....      H25MC00235C0  VT                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Virginia State Department of Health....      H25MC00231C0  VA                        150,000.00       150,000.00
Washington State Department of Health..      H25MC00254C0  WA                        150,000.00       150,000.00
West Virginia, Department of Health and      H25MC01328C0  WV                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Human Services.

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Wisconsin State Department of Health &       H25MC00232C0  WI                        150,000.00       150,000.00
 Social Services.
Wyoming State Department of Health.....      H25MC00256C0  WY                        150,000.00       150,000.00
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    Amount of the Award(s): Up to $150,000 per grantee over a one-year 
project period.
    CFDA Number: 93.110.
    Current Project Period: 6/1/2011 through 5/31/2012.
    Period of Supplemental Funding: 6/1/2012 through 5/31/2013.

    Authority: Title V, Section 501(a)(3) of the Social Security 
Act.

Justification

    HRSA is extending funding for the ECCS grants by one year for the 
following reasons. MCHB has been working with leaders within HRSA 
involved in early childhood service systems, as well as with other 
early childhood experts and leaders in the field, to align its early 
childhood systems-building activities with early childhood investments 
within HRSA, including the MIECHV program, and with other Federal 
Government early childhood initiatives. HRSA/MCHB is focusing on the 
most efficient and effective use of funds to continue promoting 
coordinated, comprehensive early childhood systems and services for the 
Nation's children and families.
    HRSA's MIECHV program funds evidence-based home visiting programs 
in 54 States and jurisdictions. Research shows that the success of such 
home visiting programs is dependent upon the kind of sound 
infrastructure that ECCS promotes and sustains. To ensure coordinated 
and non-duplicative HRSA program planning, as well as future early 
childhood systems programming, it is crucial to sustain MCHB's current 
systems development efforts under ECCS for one additional year while 
the next early childhood systems program is developed with input from 
stakeholders.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Audrey Yowell, Maternal and Child 
Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, 5600 
Fishers Lane, Room 10-86, Rockville, Maryland 20857 or email 
[email protected].

    Dated: May 2, 2012.
Mary K. Wakefield,
Administrator.
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