[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 85 (Thursday, May 2, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18851-18852]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-08876]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Notice of a HRSA-Initiated Supplemental Award to the University 
of Nebraska Medical Center/Board of Regents of the University of 
Nebraska for the Partnership for Urban Maternal and Child Health (MCH) 
Leadership Community Cooperative Agreement

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department 
of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Notice of a HRSA-Initiated Supplemental Award to the University 
of Nebraska Medical Center/Board of Regents of the University of 
Nebraska for the Partnership for Urban Maternal and Child Health (MCH) 
Leadership Community Cooperative Agreement.

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SUMMARY: HRSA announces the award of a supplement for $700,000 to the 
University of Nebraska Medical Center/Board of Regents of the 
University of Nebraska for the Partnership for Urban MCH Leadership 
Community Cooperative Agreement. The supplement will allow the current 
recipient, during the period of May 1, 2019-April 30, 2020, to assess 
the outcomes and impact of its collective impact learning collaborative 
with urban health departments.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Intended Recipient of Award: University of Nebraska Medical Center/
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska.
    Amount of Non-Competitive Award: $700,000.
    Period of Supplemental Funding: 05/01/2019-04/30/2020.
    CFDA Number: 93.110.
    Authority: Social Security Act, Title V, Sec.  501(a)(2) (42 U.S.C. 
701(a)(2)).
    Justification: The purpose of the Partnership for Urban MCH 
Leadership Community Cooperative Agreement program is to support urban 
MCH leaders as they work to improve public health programs and the 
delivery of MCH services, and to assure optimal alignment with the 
Title V MCH Services Block Grant program. This program focuses on the 
following three goals:
    1. Assisting urban MCH leaders in achieving collective impact to 
respond to the MCH challenges faced by urban communities by performing 
an environmental scan, planning and convening a series of three 
learning collaborative for urban MCH leaders, and developing and 
disseminating a collective impact toolkit and compendium;
    2. Strengthening local and State MCH analytic capacity through 
epidemiology training opportunities; and
    3. Serving as an effective voice in communicating urban MCH issues 
and in developing strong partnerships and collaborations with State 
Title V programs and other national partners to advance urban MCH 
priorities.
    The purpose of the supplement from HRSA is to give the University 
of Nebraska Medical Center/Board of Regents of the University of 
Nebraska for the Partnership for Urban MCH Leadership Community 
Cooperative Agreement, the opportunity to collect impact data for an 
additional year in support of goal one of this project. An additional 
year will allow the recipient to mature the current projects, continue 
collecting data from teams, and begin to assess the impact that this 
collective impact work has had on urban outcomes, as well as any impact 
at the State Title V National Performance Measure level. The recipient 
also will have the opportunity for more extensive data analysis to 
assess effective strategies that impact urban outcomes, and to identify 
lessons learned for potential future collective impact initiatives. 
With an extra year, the recipient will be able to assess penetration of 
collective impact into broader communities, and plan for providing 
technical assistance regarding replication of these learning 
collaborative in new urban areas.
    This cooperative agreement also supports epidemiology training 
(Goal 2) and enables the award recipient to serve as a voice for 
advancing urban MCH priorities (Goal 3), which are ongoing needs. This 
supplement will maintain HRSA's investment in strengthening local and 
State MCH analytic capacity through epidemiology training 
opportunities, as provided by Goal 2, to assure optimal capacity to 
respond to MCH emerging and priority issues at the state and local 
level, such as opioids and neonatal abstinence syndrome. In addition, 
assuring that a national partner is continuing to communicate urban MCH 
issues, as addressed by Goal 3, is a foundational need of the state-
urban MCH partnership, and is essential for optimizing Title V MCH 
Block Grant outcomes.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kate Marcell, Division of State and 
Community Health, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, HRSA, 5600 Fishers 
Lane, Room 18N104D, Rockville, MD 20857, Phone: 301-443-4656, Email: 
[email protected].

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                                                                       FY 2018
     Grantee/organization name         Grant No.        State        Authorized       FY 2019 Proposed funding
                                                                    funding level              level
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University of Nebraska Medical          U01MC17261  NE                   $700,000  Up to $700,000.
 Center/Board of Regents of the
 University of Nebraska.
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    Dated: April 26, 2019.
George Sigounas,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2019-08876 Filed 5-1-19; 8:45 am]
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