The purpose of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood
Home Visiting (MIECHV) Competitive Grant program is to award Development Grants
to States that currently have modest home visiting programs and want to build
on existing efforts.
Successful applicants will sufficiently demonstrate the
capacity to expand or enhance their evidence-based home visiting programs. The
funding provided will build on the formula funding already provided to States
and territories to support the quality implementation of home visiting
programs.
Additionally, this funding opportunity will continue the
program's emphasis on rigorous research by grounding the proposed work in
relevant empirical literature, and by including requirements to evaluate work
proposed under this grant.
In Fiscal Year (FY) 2012, approximately $12,000,000 will
be available to support competitive Development Grants to eligible States and
jurisdictions under the MIECHV program. $125,000,000 will be awarded on a
formula basis to grantees funded under HRSA-11-187 for the MIECHV program.
Successful applicants will be awarded FY 2012 competitive Development Grant
funds, in addition to the FY2012 MIECHV formula based funds.
Priority for Serving High-Risk Populations and
Programmatic Areas of Emphasis As directed in the legislation , successful
applicants will give priority to providing services to the following
populations:
a) Eligible families who reside in communities in need of
such services, as identified in the statewide needs assessment required under
subsection (b)(1)(A).
b) Low-income eligible families.
c) Eligible families who are pregnant women who have not
attained age 21.
d) Eligible families that have a history of child abuse
or neglect or have had interactions with child welfare services.
e) Eligible families that have a history of substance
abuse or need substance abuse treatment.
f) Eligible families that have users of tobacco products
in the home.
g) Eligible families that are or have children with low
student achievement.
h) Eligible families with children with developmental
delays or disabilities.
i) Eligible families who, or that include individuals
who, are serving or formerly served in the Armed Forces, including such
families that have members of the Armed Forces who have had multiple
deployments outside of the United States."
In addition, the Health Resources and Service
Administration (HRSA) and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
have identified the following programmatic areas of emphasis.
Applicants may propose to address one or more of these
areas in response to this funding opportunity announcement:
o Emphasis 1: Improvements in maternal, child, and family
health
o Emphasis 2: Effective implementation and expansion of
evidence-based home visiting programs or systems with fidelity to the
evidence-based model selected
o Emphasis 3: Development of statewide or multi-State
home visiting programs
o Emphasis 4: Development of comprehensive early
childhood systems that span the prenatal-through-age-eight continuum
o Emphasis 5: Outreach to high-risk and hard-to-engage
populations
o Emphasis 6: Development of a family-centered approach
to home visiting
o Emphasis 7: Outreach to families in rural or frontier
areas
o Emphasis 8: The development of fiscal leveraging
strategies to enhance program sustainability For a more detailed description of
each area of emphasis, please see Appendix A: MIECHV Programmatic Emphasis
Areas.
Comments:
The Nanny state has turned into the Nazi state. Defund this beast now at the federal level
and refuse to implement it at the state level. Primary any candidate who supports
this nonsense in November. The federal
government is broke and we can’t afford to spend tax dollars to destroy our individual
sovereignty, liberty, property and privacy.
Norb Leahy,
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