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| FUNDING UPDATE -- JUNE 2004 | HHS Offers Funding For Family Planning Confabs
Youth services providers may obtain funding to publicize and promote conferences on improving family planning public education and information programs through the Health and Human Services Department.
Under the Conference Support Grant Program for Family Planning Public Education and Information Activities, the department is offering funding to provide partial support for such conferences through its Office of Family Planning of the Office of Population Affairs.
The office of family planning recognizes the following topics for a conference:
- Coordinating a program with teen abstinence education
- Implementing approaches to HIV/AIDS prevention, education and counseling in family planning settings
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Couples-based service delivery and counseling
- Links with other public health delivery systems such as ones offering primary care in community health centers, alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treatment programs, family and intimate family violence prevention, community-based abstinence education services, HIV and STD prevention and treatment services, or training on infant adoption counseling
- Parental involvement in the delivery of services to teens, including approaches to counseling that involve families in assisting teen decision-making and in avoiding coercive sexual relationships
- Use of electronic technologies to improve or support family planning program activities and management
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Use of evidence-based information, including findings from recent research, to improve or support the delivery of family planning services
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Best practice approaches to specific issues relevant to the delivery of family planning clinical services and related preventive health care
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The development and implementation of quality assurance and performance measurement systems in family planning programs
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Training, counseling or other program approaches to ensure compliance with state reporting laws regarding child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape or incest; and
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Population specific issues in the delivery of family planning services--women's reproductive health, men's reproductive health, contraceptive updates, hard-to-serve populations, sexually active teens, or populations with literacy limitations.
The deadline is July 6, 2004. Both nonprofit and private entities may apply.
Applicants may obtain forms from:
OPHS Office of Grants Management
1101 Wootton Parkway
Suite 550
Rockville, Maryland 20852
Phone: 301.594.0758
Fax: 301.594.9399
Application kits are also available
online at the OPA website.
For questions about grant information, applicants may contact:
Karen Campbell
Office of Grants Management
Office of Public Health and Science
Department of Health and Human Services
1101 Wootton Parkway
Suite 550
Rockville, Maryland 20852
Email: Kcampbell@osophs.dhhs.gov
Phone: 301.594.0758
For questions about the program itself, contact:
Susan Moskosky
Director, Office of Family Planning
Office of Population Affairs
Office of Public Health and Science
Department of Health and Human Services
1101 Wootton Parkway
Suite 750
Rockville, Maryland 20852
Email: SMoskosky@osophs.dhhs.gov
Phone: 301.594.4008
This grant announcement may be viewed on the May 7, 2004 edition of the Federal Register on pages 25585-25589.
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