65FR38285 Cooperative Agreements for National Programs That Build the Capacity of Schools To Prevent Foodborne Illness Through Coordinated School Food Safety Programs; Notice of Availability of Funds
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[Program Announcement 00109]
Cooperative Agreements for National Programs That Build the
Capacity of Schools To Prevent Foodborne Illness Through Coordinated
School Food Safety Programs; Notice of Availability of Funds
A. Purpose
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the
availability of fiscal year (FY) 2000 funds for cooperative agreements
that establish a national program to assist the nation's schools and
health departments to prevent foodborne illness through coordinated
school food safety programs.
The purpose of this announcement is to develop a national program
that builds the capacity of national non-governmental, non-profit
organizations' constituents to help schools prevent foodborne illness.
CDC recognizes that many state education agencies (SEAs) and local
education agencies (LEAs) have implemented components of a coordinated
school health program that addresses important health risk behaviors
and health problems. This announcement provides support to national
non-governmental, non-profit organizations to collaborate with state
education agencies, state health agencies and others engaged in
activities related to Coordinated School Health Programs to focus on
foodborne illness prevention and school food safety.
CDC is committed to working collaboratively with the nation's state
education and health agencies and to helping them implement
comprehensive school health education as part of a coordinated school
health program that can prevent the leading causes of death and
disability. CDC is also committed to achieving the health promotion and
disease prevention objectives of ``Healthy People 2010,'' a national
activity to reduce morbidity and mortality and improve the quality of
life. This announcement is related to the focus area(s) of Educational
and Community-Based Programs. For the conference copy of ``Healthy
People 2010'' , visit the internet site: http://www.health.gov/
healthypeople.
B. Eligible Applicants
Assistance will be provided only to national organizations that are
private health, education, or social service agencies (professional, or
voluntary); and must qualify as a non-profit 501 (c)(3) entity.
Priority will be given to organizations whose constituencies have a
direct impact on the school food safety program including school food
service professionals, school nurses, and administrators. Eligible
applicants must have the capacity and experience to assist their local
affiliates. Applicants and their local affiliates must have experience
working with personnel from state and local education agencies, state
or local health agencies, or other relevant agencies within the
previous ten years that could contribute toward foodborne illness
prevention efforts through coordinated school food safety programs.
Eligible organizations must have affiliate offices or local/state/or
regional membership constituencies in a minimum of 10 states and
territories. Affiliate offices and local/state/or regional membership
constituencies may not apply in lieu of, or on behalf of, their parent
national office.
National organizations that are funded currently by CDC/Division of
Adolescent and School Health (DASH) under program announcements 99023,
and 97065, 00026,or 00037 are not eligible for this program
announcement. A listing of CDC/DASH funded national organizations that
are not eligible to apply is provided on the DASH website, http://
www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/.
Note: Public Law 104-65 states that an organization described in
section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that engages
in lobbying activities is not eligible to receive Federal funds
constituting an award, grant, cooperative agreement, contract, loan,
or any other form.
C. Availability of Funds
Approximately $420,000 is available in FY 2000 to fund
approximately three awards. It is expected that the average award will
be $140,000, ranging from $125,000 to $155,000 and that the project
period will be for 3 years. It is expected that the awards will begin
on or about September 30, 2000. Funding estimates may change.
Continuation awards within an approved project period will be made on
the basis of satisfactory progress as evidenced by required reports and
the availability of funds.
D. Program Requirements
In conducting activities to achieve the purpose of this program,
the recipient shall be responsible for conducting activities under
section 1 (Recipient Activities), and CDC will be responsible for
conducting activities under section 2 (CDC Activities) as listed below:
1. Recipient Activities
a. Collaborate with constituents; state and local education,
health, agriculture, and social service agencies; non-governmental
partners; and federal government agencies to develop a national
strategy to prevent foodborne illness within school-based food safety
programs.
b. Establish specific, measurable, and realistic goals and
objectives that reduce and or manage school foodborne illness
outbreaks.
c. Establish an operational plan that includes collaborating with
federal and state agencies and others engaged in coordinated school
food safety program-related activities, in developing target-audience
and discipline-specific training materials needed to effectively build
the capacity of school personnel to implement a model coordinated
school food safety program.
d. Specific activities can also include:
1. Build the capacity of constituents to better prevent school
foodborne illness and implement a model coordinated school food safety
program through participation in 3-4 training workshops facilitated by
a State Education Agency;
2. Develop discipline-specific training materials for accompanying
a model coordinated school food safety program for constituents;
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of the program in achieving goals and
objectives;
4. Disseminate programmatic information through appropriate
methods, such as:
a. Sharing materials that would reduce school foodborne illness
through a variety of mechanisms (e.g. clearinghouses, conferences and/
or workshops, newsletters, annual progress reports, etc.).
b. Sharing project-related news and information with State and
Local Education Agencies, State Health Agencies, national
organizations, and others through the Internet, other computer
networks, the mail and at workshops and conferences;
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5. Help schools, or other agencies that serve young people, conduct
coordinated programs that prevent behaviors that place elementary
through college-aged young people at risk for foodborne illness;
6. Collaborate with other national organizations to establish and
maintain initiatives to prevent behaviors that place elementary through
college-aged young people at risk for foodborne illness;
7. Educate and enable managers, leaders, teachers, school food
service managers, school nurses, and decision makers who are members of
the national organizations to act individually and collectively to
support locally determined programs to reduce/manage school foodborne
illness outbreaks;
8. Educate and enable families, media, businesses, and others in
the community to act individually and collectively to support
coordinated school health programs to reduce/manage school foodborne
illness outbreaks;
9. Build the capacity of community agencies and parents to
establish and/or maintain programs that reduce/manage school foodborne
illness outbreaks;
10. Provide technical assistance and training to professionals and
parents to use proven, effective strategies and programs to prevent
behaviors that place elementary through college-aged young people at
risk for foodborne illness.
11. Participate in national conferences to promote model
coordinated school food safety programs.
12. Participate in CDC-planned meetings of national, state, and
local education agencies and other appropriate agencies to address
issues and program activities related to improving coordinated school
health programs; and strengthen the capacity of post-secondary
institutions and youth-serving agencies to prevent foodborne illness
through coordinated school food safety programs.
2. CDC Activities
a. Provide and periodically update information related to the
purposes or activities of this program announcement.
b. Coordinate with national, state, and local education, health and
social service agencies as well as other relevant organizations in
planning and conducting national strategies designed to prevent
foodborne illness through coordinated school food safety programs.
c. Provide programmatic consultation and guidance related to
program planning, implementation, and evaluation; assessment of program
objectives; and dissemination of successful strategies, experiences,
and evaluation reports.
d. Plan meetings of national, state, and local education agencies
and other appropriate agencies to address issues and program activities
related to improving coordinated school health programs; and strengthen
the capacity of postsecondary institutions and youth-serving agencies
to prevent foodborne illness through coordinated school food safety
programs.
e. Assist in the evaluation of program activities.
E. Application Content
Use the information in the Purpose, Program Requirements, Other
Requirements, and Evaluation Criteria sections to develop the
application content. Your application will be evaluated on the criteria
listed, so it is important to follow the criteria as you construct your
program plan. The narrative should be no more than twenty (20) double-
spaced pages, printed on one side, with one inch margins, and unreduced
font.
1. Background (No More Than 4 Pages)
a. Describe your organization's current structure (mission, goals
and its primary constituency). Describe how that structure can support
school-based food safety programs that are part of a coordinated school
health program, including the potential role of your organization's
primary constituency in a school food safety initiative. Identify
current gaps in the existing structure and implementation of school-
based food safety programs and discuss how your constituency can
enhance the state and local education agencies' ability to deliver an
optimal food safety program.
b. Describe your organization's constituency experience in
assisting the state education, state health and state agriculture
departments' current school food safety program. Include in your
description constituency experience assisting these agencies' use of
existing protocols, training, and educational materials available from
the USDA and FDA related to food safety and foodborne illness
outbreaks. Describe barriers within state and local education agencies
to effectively reporting foodborne illnesses and outbreaks and indicate
how your organization and constituency can build that capacity.
c. Describe your organization's experience in developing and
implementing policy related to food safety programs and reporting
school-based foodborne outbreaks. Discuss potential limitations to
existing policies and describe, if any, the need for new policies that
address school food safety and the prevention of foodborne illness.
d. Describe your organization's experience in developing and
implementing model policy, curricula, training programs, surveillance
activities, and evaluation protocols. Describe your organization's
experience providing technical assistance and training.
2. Operational Plan (No More Than 8 Pages)
a. Provide short-term (1-year) and long-term (3-year) objectives
for the proposed project that build the capacity of coordinated school
food safety programs nationwide. The objectives must be specific, time-
phased, measurable, and realistic. The proposed objectives should
compliment ongoing activities related to ``From Farm to Table: A
National Food Safety Initiative'' (see the U.S. government food safety
information gateway website http://www.foodsafety.gov for more
information on activities related to the National Food Safety
Initiative).
b. Submit a plan that proposes first year activities to build the
capacity of your organization and others to implement a model food
safety program designed to prevent foodborne illness in schools.
Include a time-line for the completion of each component or major
activity that describes who will do what by when. Examples of
acceptable activities can include, but are not limited to the Recipient
Activities Described in Section D Program Requirements.
3. Administration and Management (No More Than 2 Pages)
a. Describe how the proposed professional staff will contribute to
the overall school food safety program. Describe how the current or
proposed placement of each staff will assure that program
implementation among state education, health, and agriculture agencies,
their affiliates, and partners is coordinated with your organization's
constituents.
b. Demonstrate that existing or proposed professional staff have or
will have the necessary background and qualifications for the proposed
responsibilities. Indicate how your organization can ensure that for
each professional working on the project, their position description
requires the appropriate level of education and experience related to
the level of responsibility and expected duties. A curriculum vitae (no
more than two pages for each professional staff) should be included in
an appendix to the
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application for existing staff who are assigned to this project.
c. In an appendix to the application, provide an organizational
chart that identifies lines of communication, accountability,
reporting, authority, and describes management and control systems
within your organization.
4. Collaboration (No More Than 2 Pages)
a. Describe the organization's current collaboration with states'
health, education, and agricultural departments. Describe your
organization's collaboration with other federal agencies, national non-
profit organizations, foundations, community-based groups, and others
who have an interest in or whose mission includes food safety programs,
whether their efforts are school-based or not. Discuss how your
collaborative relationship can strengthen this project. Indicate who
you propose to collaborate with to implement the proposed Operational
Plan. Include letters of participation and support documenting these
anticipated collaborations. In particular, describe how the proposed
activities compliment or build on existing food safety programs.
b. Describe collaborative activities or anticipated relationships
with other national organizations who support school-based health
education programs. Include letters of participation and support
documenting these anticipated collaborations. In particular, describe
how your organization can compliment the activities of existing
national organizations and how their expertise can support this
proposed project.
5. Evaluation Plan (No More Than 2 Pages)
Describe plans to evaluate progress in meeting objectives and
conducting activities during the budget period. Specify what data will
be obtained and present a plan that includes how the data will be
obtained, disseminated, and used to improve the program. Indicate in
the plan who will do what and when.
6. Budget and Justification (No More Than 2 Pages)
Provide a detailed budget and line-item justification for all
operating expenses that are consistent with proposed objectives and
planned activities. The budget should include funds for travel to two
CDC meetings during the budget year.
F. Submission and Deadline
Application Content
Submit the original and two copies of PHS 5161-1 (OMB Number 0937-
0189). Forms are in the application kit. Submit the application kit on
or before August 1, 2000, to the Grants Management Specialist (GMS)
identified in the ``Where to Obtain Additional Information'' section of
this announcement.
Deadline: Applications will be considered as meeting the deadline
if they are either:
(a) Received on or before the deadline date; or
(b) Sent on or before the deadline date. (Applicants must request a
legibly dated U.S. Postal Service postmark or obtain a legibly dated
receipt from a commercial carrier or U.S. Postal Service. Private
metered postmarks are not acceptable as proof of timely mailing).
Late Applications: Applications which do not meet the criteria in
(a) or (b) above are considered late applications, will not be
considered, and will be returned to the applicant.
G. Evaluation Criteria
Each application will be evaluated individually against the
following evaluation criteria by an independent review group appointed
by CDC.
1. Background and Need (30 Points)
a. (10 points) The extent to which the applicant describes the
current organizational structure, how that structure can support
school-based food safety programs, and identifies current gaps in the
existing structure of state agencies that decreases the states' ability
to deliver an optimal food safety program.
b. (10 points) The extent to which the applicant discusses barriers
within states to using existing resources that contribute to the
prevention of foodborne illnesses, describes experience in assisting
state education, state health and state agriculture departments'
current school food safety programs and describes experience assisting
state agencies' use of existing protocols, training, and educational
materials.
c. (5 points) The extent to which the applicant describes
experience in developing policy related to food safety programs and
reporting school-based foodborne outbreaks, discusses gaps in the
existing policy at the state level and discusses a proposal for new
policy.
d. (5 points) The extent to which the applicant describes
experience in developing and implementing model policy, curricula,
training programs, surveillance activities, and evaluation protocol and
describes your organization's experience providing technical assistance
and training.
2. Operational Plan (30 Points)
a. (15 Points) The extent to which the applicant provides short-
term (1-year) and long-term (3-year) objectives for the proposed
project that build the capacity of coordinated school food safety
programs nationwide. The objectives must be specific, time-phased,
measurable, and realistic. The proposed objectives should compliment
ongoing activities related to ``From Farm to Table: A National Food
Safety Initiative'' (see the U.S. government food safety information
gateway website, http://www.foodsafety.gov, for more information on
activities related to the National Food Safety Initiative).
b. (15 points) The extent to which the applicant submits a plan
that builds the capacity of its constituents and others to assist state
and local education agencies in establishing a model school food safety
program designed to prevent foodborne illness and includes a time-line
for the completion of each component or major activity that describes
who will do what by when. The extent to which the proposed activities
are comparable to the identified Recipient Activities Described in
Section D Program Requirements.
3. Administration and Management (15 Points)
a. (5 points) The extent to which the applicant provides job
descriptions for existing and proposed professional positions and
describes how the proposed professional staff will contribute to the
overall school food safety program. To the extent to which the
applicant describes how the current or proposed placement of each staff
will assure that program implementation among state education, health,
and agriculture agencies, their affiliates, and partners is coordinated
with the organization's constituents.
b. (5 points) The extent to which the applicant demonstrates that
existing or proposed staff have or will have the necessary background
and qualifications for the proposed responsibilities and indicates how
the organization can ensure that for each professional working on the
project, their position description requires the appropriate level of
education and experience related to the level of responsibility and
expected duties. The extent to which the applicant provides a
curriculum
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vitae for existing staff who are assigned to this project.
c. (5 points) The extent to which the applicant provides an
organizational chart that identifies lines of communication,
accountability, reporting, authority, and describes management and
control systems within the organization and discusses how the proposed
placement of the project in the organization will increase its
likelihood of success.
4. Collaboration (20 Points)
a. (15 points) The extent to which the applicant describes current
collaboration with states' health, education, and agricultural
departments, the organization's collaboration with other federal
agencies, national non-profit organizations, foundations, community-
based groups, and others who have an interest in or whose mission
includes food safety programs, and discusses how the current
collaborative relationships can compliment the proposed project. The
extent to which the applicant indicates proposed collaborative
relationships that will support the proposed operational plan and
includes letters of participation and support documenting these
anticipated collaborations especially with proposed activities.
b. (5 points) The extent to which the applicant describes
collaborative activities or anticipated relationships with other
national organizations who support school-based health education
programs, and includes letters of participation and support documenting
these anticipated collaborations. The extent to which the applicant
describes how the organization can compliment the activities of
existing organizations and how their expertise can support this
proposed project.
5. Evaluation Plan (5 Points)
The extent to which the applicant describes their plan to evaluate
progress in meeting objectives and conducting activities during the
budget period including their ability to describe: (1) What data will
be obtained; (2) how the data will be obtained; (3) how evaluation
information will be disseminated; (4) how the evaluation data will be
used to improve the program; and (5) who will implement the evaluation
plan and when.
6. Budget and Justification (Not Scored)
The extent to which the budget is reasonable and consistent with
the purposes and activities of the program.
H. Other Requirements
Technical Reporting Requirements
1. Provide CDC with original plus two copies of the progress
report, submitted on an annual basis and due 90 days after the end of
the budget period. The progress reports must include the following for
each program, function, or activity involved:
<bullet> A comparison of actual accomplishments to the objectives
established for the period;
<bullet> Documentation on why established objectives were not met;
and
<bullet> A summary of the project's annual progress in achieving
performance measures, which will be developed and established in
collaboration with CDC during the first budget period.
2. Provide CDC with original plus two copies of the financial
status report, no more than 90 days after the end of the budget period.
3. Final financial and progress reports, no more than 90 days after
the end of the project period, should be sent to the business
management contact listed in Section J, ``Where to Obtain Additional
Information.''
The following additional requirements are applicable to this
program. For a complete description of each, see Attachment I in the
application kit.
AR-7 Executive Order 12372 Review
AR-8 Public Health System Reporting Requirement
AR-9 Paperwork Reduction Act Requirements
AR-10 Smoke-Free Workplace Requirements
AR-11 Healthy People 2010
AR-12 Lobbying Restrictions
AR-14 Accounting System Requirements
AR-15 Proof of Non-Profit Status
AR-20 Conference Support
I. Authority and Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number
This program is authorized under sections 301(a), 311(b) and (c),
and 317 (k)(2) [42 U.S.C. 241(a), 243(b) and (c), and 247b(K)(2)] of
the Public Health Service Act, as amended. The Catalog of Federal
Domestic Assistance number is 93.938.
J. Where To Obtain Additional Information
If you have questions after reviewing the contents of all
documents, business management technical assistance may be obtained
from: Jesse Robertson, Grants Management Specialist, Grants Management
PA00109, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2920
Brandywine Rd, M/S E18, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-4146, telephone (770)
488-2747, jt...@cdc.gov.
This and other CDC announcements can be found on the CDC Homepage
Internet address: http://www.cdc.gov Also, CDC Guidelines to Promote
Healthy Eating: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/nutguide.htm and CDC
Guidelines to Promote Physical Activity: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/
dash/physact.htm
For program technical assistance, contact: Pete Hunt, Chief, School
Program Section, Program Development and Services Branch, Division of
Adolescent and School Health, National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion, Announcement 00109, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, NE MS K31,
Atlanta, GA 30341, telephone: 770-488-3253, pc...@cdc.gov.
Dated: June 13, 2000.
John L. Williams,
Director, Procurement and Grants Office, Center for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
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