[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 120 (Monday, June 22, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37459-37460]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-13338]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Notice of a Supplemental Award to Education Development Center 
for the Home Visiting Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network 
2.0 Cooperative Agreement

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

ACTION: Notice of a Supplemental Award to Education Development Center 
for Home Visiting Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network 2.0 
Cooperative Agreement.

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SUMMARY: HRSA announces the award of a supplemental award of 
approximately $330,000 per year to the Education Development Center 
(EDC) for the Home Visiting Collaborative Improvement and Innovation 
Network 2.0 (HV CoIIN 2.0) for fiscal years (FY) 2020, 2021 and 2022. 
The supplement will allow the recipient to build a continuous quality 
improvement (CQI) health equity framework for the Maternal, Infant and 
Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Monique Fountain Hanna, Chief Medical 
Officer, Division Home Visiting and Early Childhood Systems, HRSA, 5600 
Fishers Lane, Room 18N180,

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Rockville, MD 20857, Phone: (215) 861-4385, or Email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Intended Recipient of Award: Education Development Center, Inc.
    Amount of Non-Competitive Award: Approximately $330,000/year for FY 
2020, FY 2021, and FY 2022.
    Budget Period: 09/01/2019-08/31/2020; 09/01/2020-08/31/2021; 09/01/
2021-08/31/2022.
    CFDA Number: 93.110.

    Authority: Social Security Act, Title V, Sec.  511 (42 U.S.C. 
711).

    Justification: The MIECHV Program, an evidence-based home visiting 
program, seeks to improve maternal and child health outcomes and 
address various social determinants that impact health equity such as 
reducing child abuse and neglect, addressing family violence, promoting 
child development and school readiness, and improving family economic 
self-sufficiency for families considered most at-risk. In support of 
HRSA's FY 2019-FY 2022 Strategic Goals focused on health equity, the 
MIECHV Program proposes to develop a home visiting specific health 
equity framework utilizing quality improvement as a methodology.
    The HVCoIIN 2.0 is designed to facilitate the delivery and 
accelerate the improvement of home visiting services provided by MIECHV 
Program recipients, including subrecipient local implementing agencies 
(LIAs) utilizing continuous quality improvement methodologies. The 
CoIIN provides a platform and strategy for collaborative learning and 
quality improvement toward common measurable aims--rapid-cycle tests of 
change ideas.
    The HVCoIIN has three main priority areas. Priority Area #2 is 
focused on ``testing of new change ideas.'' This priority area is 
designed to develop and subsequently refine discrete sets of change 
ideas based on evidence in the field and relevance to home visiting 
implementation. The grantee will carry out all the activities 
pertaining to the development of the health equity framework. Proposed 
activities will include:
     Identify a health equity framework and adapt for MIECHV;
     Develop theory of change, (how and why the desired change 
is expected to happen); key driver diagrams, (the relationship between 
the overall aim of the project, the drivers that contribute directly to 
the aim) change ideas, measures and proposed tests of change;
     Implement a quality improvement strategy such as: 
Breakthrough Series, Plan-Do-Study-Act Cycles, to test and eventually 
demonstrate improvements in program outcomes through a health equity 
collaborative; and pilot test with MIECHV awardees over 12-18 months;
     Apply the health equity framework that demonstrated 
improvements to twelve current HV CoIIN 2.0 scale topics (developmental 
screening, breastfeeding, and maternal depression) and new topic CoIINs 
(intimate partner violence and well child care); and
     Create a final health equity CoIIN playbook with measures, 
refined tests of change that can be used to spread lessons learned 
across home visiting programs. EDC was awarded a 5-year HV CoIIN 
cooperative agreement on September 1, 2017. They have successfully led 
the first national effort utilizing CQI methods to assist awardees in 
improving MIECHV Program implementation, performance measures and 
evidence based maternal and child health outcomes.

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   Grantee/organization name       Grant No.       State     FY 2020 funding   FY 2021 funding   FY 2022 funding
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Education Development Center,       UF4MC26525  MA                  $328,797          $329,980          $324,637
 Inc.
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Thomas J. Engels,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2020-13338 Filed 6-19-20; 8:45 am]
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