(CLOSED) HRSA-18-105 Rural Health Integration Models for Parents and Children to Thrive (IMPACT)

Sponsor Name: 
HRSA
Amount: 
$600,000.00
Description of the Award: 

This notice solicits applications for Rural Health Integration Models for Parents and Children to Thrive (IMPACT).

A two-generational approach focuses on creating opportunities for and addressing needs of both vulnerable children and their parents together. It prioritizes and facilitates coordination of programs and services needed to address the additive effects of poverty and geographic isolation on early childhood health and development. A holistic-family-based approach acknowledges the importance of the family in shaping health and developmental outcomes for children.2 Research has shown that the well-being of parents greatly impacts the health and developmental trajectories of their children and is a crucial factor in children’s social-emotional, physical, and economic well-being. At the same time, the emotional and behavioral needs of at-risk infants, toddlers, and preschoolers are best met through coordinated services that focus on relationships, especially with parents and other caregivers. Parents’ ability to succeed in school and/or at work is affected by how well their children are doing.
The overarching goal of the Rural Health IMPACT program is to implement evidence-based two-generational strategies that promote health and well-being of children (prenatally to age 3) and create economic opportunities for their families. This includes:
1) ensuring rural children and their families have access to critical health, development, education, and family support services that are aligned and coordinated;
2) improving early identification of and intervention for high-risk families who have experienced or are at-risk for adverse childhood experiences, maternal depression and other mental health issues, substance use disorders including opioid use and related neonatal abstinence syndrome, as well as other factors that lead to poor health and social outcomes for rural families; and
3) developing, implementing, and expanding two-generational strategies that effectively link children and their families to services to encourage: a) children’s healthy development; and b) help families overcome barriers to achieving economic security and self-sufficiency.
Performance Metrics:
Data will be collected from the three demonstration sites3 and may be related to the following content areas:
1) Access to primary care and mental health services
2) Developmental screening
3) Maternal depression
4) Substance use
5) Access to comprehensive services such as transportation, early learning and development and family support programs
6) Education and/or job opportunities
The recipient will specify process and outcome measures as well as family and systems measures within each of these areas. Measures will be aligned, as feasible and appropriate, with established performance measures for the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program and informed by the early childhood development evidence base. These data will be collected and reported to HRSA every six (6) months; measures to be reported on a different schedule should be clearly identified and a rationale provided.
Process measures from the universal TA to the MIECHV4 and Early Childhood Comprehensive System Impact (ECCS-I)5 sites that participate will also be collected.

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Limit (Number of applicants permitted per institution): 
1
Sponsor Final Deadline: 
Jul 02, 2018
OSVPR Application or NOI Instructions: 

If you are interested in submitting a proposal, click on the InfoReady link and submit application on the right side of page and follow the required prompts to give us your contact information. If interest exceeds the sponsor's institutional limit, the Office of the Vice President for Research will hold an internal Limited Submissions competition after the Call of Intent deadline.

To be considered as a Penn State institutional nominee, please submit a notice of intent by the date provided directly below.
Penn State OSVPR NOI Deadline: 
Monday, June 4, 2018 - 4:00pm
This limited submission is in downselect: 
Penn State may only submit a specific number of proposals to this funding opportunity. The number of NOIs received require that an internal competition take place, thus, a downselect process has commenced. No Penn State researchers may apply to this opportunity outside of this downselect process. To apply for this limited submission, please use this link:
Notes: 
No applicants