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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Cooperative Agreement Program for the National Academic Centers
of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention
Announcement Type: New.
Funding Opportunity Number: CE05-018.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.136.
Key Dates:
Letter of Intent Deadline: December 22, 2004.
Application Deadline: February 10, 2005.
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Authority: This program is authorized under sections 301(a) [42
U.S.C. 241(a)] and 391(a) [42 U.S.C. 280b(a)] of the Public Service
Health Act, as amended.
Purpose: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
announces the availability of fiscal year (FY) 2005 cooperative
agreement funds to establish up to ten National Academic Centers of
Excellence (ACE) on Youth Violence Prevention, serving as national
models for the prevention of youth violence. The purpose of the Centers
is to help communities prevent youth interpersonal violence. As of
2005, Centers will be supported for up to ten years to promote a
stable, long term focus on the complex problem of youth violence,
fostering multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral interactions that can
stimulate scientific creativity, speed new developments in youth
interpersonal violence research and practice, and hasten translation of
knowledge into health and community practice. Centers are expected to
actively foster an environment conducive to reciprocally beneficial
collaborations among health scientists, social scientists and the
affected communities with the common goal of reducing youth
interpersonal violence.
Youth violence is defined as: The intentional use of physical force
or power, threatened or actual, exerted by or against children,
adolescents or young adults, ages 10-24, which results in or has a high
likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm,
maldevelopment, or deprivation. It includes violence between
individuals or groups who may or may not know each other. It frequently
takes place outside the home, in the streets, or in institutional
settings, such as schools, workplaces, and prisons. Hereafter, youth
violence and youth interpersonal violence will be used synonymously.
This program addresses the ``Healthy People 2010'' focus area of
Injury and Violence Prevention. For a copy of ``Healthy People 2010''
visit the Internet site: http://www.health.gov/healthypeople.
Measurable outcomes of the program will be in alignment with one
(or more) of the following performance goals for the National Center
for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC):
1. Increase the capacity of injury prevention and control programs
to address the prevention of injuries and violence.
2. Monitor and detect fatal and non-fatal injuries.
3. Conduct a targeted program of research to reduce injury-related
death and disability.
Special Guidelines for Technical Assistance:
Conference Call: Technical assistance will be available for
potential applicants during one conference call.
The call for eligible applicants will be held on December 9, 2005
from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. (eastern time). The conference can be accessed
by calling 1-888-528-9061 and entering access code 18046.
The purpose of the conference call is to help potential applicants:
1. Understand the Request for Application Process for the RFA
(CE05-018) for the National Academic Centers of Excellence on Youth
Violence Prevention.
2. Understand the scope and intent of the RFA (CE05-018) for the
National Academic Centers of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention.
3. Become familiar with the Public Health Services funding policies
and application and review procedures. Participation in this conference
call is not mandatory. At the time of the call, if you have problems
accessing the conference call, please call 404-639-7550 for assistance.
Program Objectives: The goal of this program is to reduce the
incidence of youth violence in the defined community by achieving the
following objectives:
Monitoring the magnitude and distribution of youth
interpersonal violence.
Building the scientific infrastructure necessary to
support the development and widespread application of effective youth
violence prevention interventions.
Promoting interdisciplinary research strategies to address
the problem of youth violence.
Fostering collaboration between academic researchers and
communities.
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Mobilizing and empowering communities to address the
problem of youth violence.
Activities: Awardee activities during the course of the five-year
award for this program are listed below. Additional information on the
program activities is provided in the application content of this
announcement.
Apply and refine a logic model for the academic center of
excellence adapted from the national ACE Program conceptual framework
or logic model (See Appendix 1 for a description) to fit the specific
inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes of the proposed center.
Develop and implement a center evaluation plan and
demonstrate how the center's evaluation contributes to CDC's national
program evaluation, including the core performance indicators (see
Appendix 2 for a list of the indicators.)
Develop, implement and evaluate center projects in
conjunction with the center's ``defined community'', (whether
geographic or a non-geographic sub-grouping) which the center's
activities will serve. Community is defined as a group of people who
share some or all of the following: geographic boundaries; a sense of
membership; culture and language; common norms, interests, or values;
and common health risks or conditions (CDC/ATSDR Principles of
Community Engagement, IOM 2002). Community refers to a population that
has a distinct identity. It can mean residents of a geographic area, be
that a catchment's area, neighborhood, school district, city, county or
region within a county. It can be used with a modifier or clause to
describe a non-geographically based sub-grouping such as, but not
exclusively: a community of youth violence prevention workers, a
community of health professionals, or an ethnic or language community.
Establish or maintain a center community advisory
committee to work with the defined community to achieve center goals.
See Appendix 3, the glossary, for a definition and composition of the
community committee.
Establish and maintain partnerships (e.g., state and local
health departments, youth violence prevention and youth serving
organizations, community groups and agencies, faith-based organizations
and local businesses, and academic units), and include these partners,
when applicable, in the center activities. See Appendix 3, the
glossary, for a definition and composition of partnerships.
Establish and/or enhance surveillance systems to better
measure the problem of youth violence and the impact of center
activities and research in the defined community.
Identify youth violence prevention priorities within the
defined community.
Carry out the center's participatory, community-based core
youth interpersonal violence research project(s) and the center's five-
year research agenda. Each center is required to conduct at least one
core research project consistent with both the NCIPC Research Agenda
and NCIPC's mission.
Plan the core research project in collaboration with
community partners.
Refine, carry out and evaluate the center's community
mobilization plan in partnership with a community's individuals,
groups, and organizations on a participatory and sustained basis. (See
Appendix 3, the glossary, for a definition of community mobilization.)
When appropriate, collaborate with CDC, community
partners, and other ACE centers to develop and finalize design for
studies and activities, methodology, data collection measures, methods,
and analyses and disseminate the results through presentations and
publications to broad audiences, including public health.
Collect and report necessary data and information to CDC
to assess progress toward centers' goals and objectives and monitor
overall performance. This should include, but will not be limited to,
information related to the ACE Performance Indicators. (See Appendix 2
for list of indicators).
Develop an infrastructure of personnel and resources to
support center functions and processes. This infrastructure should
ensure that adequate personnel, facilities, technology, and university
support exists to accomplish the goals and objectives of the center.
Provide training, technical assistance, and mentoring to
health professionals, researchers, students, community members, and
other partners, as appropriate, including other funded Academic Centers
of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention.
Obtain approval of the study protocol by the recipient's
local Institutional Review Board (IRB). Collaborate with CDC in the
development of a research protocol for CDC Institutional Review Board
(IRB) review, if appropriate.
In a cooperative agreement, CDC staff is substantially involved in
the program activities, above and beyond routine grant monitoring. CDC
activities for this program are as follows:
Provide scientific input, serve as a scientific and
professional resource, and collaborate with ACE staff on research,
interpretation of findings, and the production of publications and
presentations to disseminate study results.
Facilitate regular communication between CDC and the
grantees to include, but not limited to conference calls and meetings,
including the convening of annual ACE meetings to facilitate research
collaboration and information sharing among centers.
Review, monitor, and evaluate scientific and operational
accomplishments to assure progress toward program goals and objectives.
The review will be based on the center's logic model and the critical
components of the model that are related to the achievement of core
performance indicators. The review process will include but not be
limited to conference calls, site visits, annual meetings, and required
reports.
Collect, organize and disseminate information on ACE
activities, including research. Inform recipients about any CDC
policies, laws, and regulations pertaining to public health research
and programmatic activities, conduct inquiries concerning allegations
of scientific misconduct, and take necessary steps to bring program
into compliance.
When appropriate, assist in the development of a research
protocol(s) for IRB review by all performance sites involved in the
research project. If CDC researchers are significantly involved in the
project, the CDC IRB will review and approve the protocol initially and
on at least an annual basis until the research project is completed.
II. Award Information
Type of Award: Cooperative Agreement. CDC involvement in this
program is listed in the Activities Section above.
Mechanism of Support: U49.
Fiscal Year Funds: 2005.
Approximate Total Funding: $6,800,000 (This amount is an estimate,
and is subject to availability of funds).
Approximate Number of Awards: 7-10.
Approximate Average Award: $830,000.
Floor of Award Range: $680,000.
Ceiling of Award Range: $980,000 (Ceilings are for the first 12-
month budget period and include both indirect and direct costs).
Anticipated Award Date: September 1, 2005.
Budget Period Length: 12 months.
Project Period Length: Five years.
Throughout the project period, CDC's commitment to continuation of
awards
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will be conditioned on the availability of funds, evidence of
satisfactory progress by the recipient (as documented in required
reports and site visits), and the determination that continued funding
is in the best interest of the Federal Government.
III. Eligibility Information
III.1. Eligible Applicants
Eligible applicants are academic institutions/centers with a focus
on health, such as:
Public and private nonprofit universities;
Colleges;
University-associated teaching hospitals.
Eligible applicants may enter into contracts, including consortia
agreements, as necessary to meet the requirements of the program and
strengthen the overall application. A Bona Fide Agent is an agency/
organization identified by the academic institutions/centers as
eligible to submit an application under the academic institutions/
centers eligibility in lieu of an academic institutions/centers
application. If you are applying as a bona fide agent of academic
institutions/centers, you must provide a letter from the academic
institutions/centers as documentation of your status. Place this
documentation behind the first page of your application form.
III.2. Cost Sharing or Matching
Matching funds are not required for this program announcement.
III.3. Other
CDC will not accept and review applications with budgets greater
than the ceiling of the award range. Applications with budgets that
exceed the ceiling of the award, which includes both direct and
indirect costs, will be considered non-responsive, and will not be
entered into the review process. You will be notified that your
application did not meet the submission requirements.
Special requirements: If your application is incomplete or non-
responsive to the requirements listed in this section, it will not be
entered into the review process. You will be notified that your
application did not meet submission requirements.
Late applications will be considered non-responsive. See
section ``IV.3 Submission Dates and Times'' for more information on
deadlines.
A National Academic Center of Excellence on Youth Violence
Prevention is expected to have the following core components which
together address the objectives of a center: (1) Administrative and
Infrastructure Core, (2) Surveillance and Research Core and (3)
Outreach and Education Core. The essential characteristics of a
National Academic Center of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention are
as follows:
A core faculty in fields such as public health,
epidemiology, biostatistics, social sciences, behavioral and
environmental sciences, health and youth policy, economics, evaluation,
and health administration.
Established working relationships with multidisciplinary
faculty in the fields listed above and in other disciplines, such as,
but not limited to, medicine, psychology, nursing, social work,
education, urban planning, youth development and business.
Graduate training programs relevant to youth violence
prevention.
Demonstrated relationships with a broad range of community
partners and expertise in developing, implementing and evaluating
community-based youth participatory research and mobilization
activities.
Demonstrated experience on the applicant's project team in
conducting, evaluating, and publishing community-based participatory
research (CPBR) in peer-reviewed journals. (See Appendix 3, the
glossary, for a definition of Community-based participatory research).
Effective and well-defined working relationships within
the performing organization and with outside entities (as evidenced by
letters of support and in memoranda of understanding).
An overall match between the applicant's proposed research
objectives and the program objectives as described under the heading,
``Program Objectives''.
Only one application per institution will be accepted.
Note: Title 2 of the United States Code section 1611 states that
an organization described in section 501(c)(4) of the Internal
Revenue Code that engages in lobbying activities is not eligible to
receive Federal funds constituting an award, grant, or loan.
Individuals Eligible To Become Principal Investigators
Principal Investigator qualifications are as follows:
A principal investigator who has conducted community-based
youth violence prevention research, published the findings in peer-
reviewed journals, and has specific authority and responsibility to
carry out the proposed project.
Applications that do not meet the above requirements will be
considered non-responsive.
Individuals with the above-listed skills, knowledge, and resources
necessary to carry out the proposed research are invited to work with
their institution to develop an application for support. Individuals
from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals
with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for CDC programs. Each
institution may submit only one application per round of competition.
IV. Application and Submission Information
IV. 1. Address To Request Application Package
To apply for this funding opportunity, use application form PHS 398
(OMB number 0925-0001 rev. 5/2001). Forms, attachments and instructions
are available in an interactive format on the CDC Web site, at the
following Internet address: http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/forminfo.htm.
Forms and instructions are also available in an interactive format
on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Web site at the following
Internet address: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html
.
If you do not have access to the Internet, or if you have
difficulty accessing the forms on-line, you may contact the CDC
Procurement and Grants Office Technical Information Management Section
(PGO-TIM) staff at: 770-488-2700. Application forms can be mailed to
you.
IV. 2. Content and Form of Application Submission
Letter of Intent (LOI): Prospective applicants are asked to submit
a Letter of Intent (LOI) that includes the following information and
written in the following format:
Maximum Number of Pages: Three.
Font Size: 12-point unreduced.
Paper Size: 8.5 by 11 inches.
Page Margin Size: One inch.
Printed only on one side of page.
Single spaced.
Written in plain language, avoid jargon.
Your LOI must contain the following information:
Descriptive title of the proposed Center.
Name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and
facsimile number of the Principal Investigator.
Names of other key personnel.
Participating institutions.
Number and title of this RFA.
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Brief description of the proposed center's research focus
(a three to four line description).
Brief description of the scope and intent of the proposed
center work (maximum one paragraph).
Note: Attachments, booklets, or other documents will not be
accepted with the LOI.
Application: Follow the PHS 398 application instructions for
content and formatting of your application. If the instructions in this
announcement differ in any way from the PHS 398 instructions, follow
the instructions in this announcement. For further assistance with the
PHS 398 application form, contact PGO-TIM staff at 770-488-2700, or
contact GrantsInfo, Telephone (301) 435-0714, e-mail:
GrantsInfo@nih.gov.
Your application should address activities to be conducted over the
entire five-year project period.
For more information, see the CDC Web site at: http://www.cdc.gov/funding.htm
.
This announcement uses just-in-time concepts. This announcement
uses the non-modular budgeting format. The application narrative should
consist of the following information:
(1) Administrative and Infrastructure Core: To ensure that
applicants have the administrative and infrastructure capacity to
achieve the program objectives, applicants should describe the
following:
(a) Defined Community: Applicants need to define and describe the
center's mission and the primary community (whether geographic or a
non-geographic sub-grouping) that the center's activities will serve.
(See Appendix 3, Glossary of Terms, for a definition of community).
Applicants should, at a minimum, address the following characteristics
of the defined community, as they pertain to the type of community
chosen: the size of the community; the demographic make up,
socioeconomic and cultural characteristics; levels of youth violence
and the prevalent risk and protective factors of, or encountered by,
the defined community; the youth violence prevention infrastructure,
levels of organization and support for interpersonal youth violence
prevention interventions in the defined community; and the existence of
health, education, justice, and other policies related to youth
violence prevention in the defined community. Applicants should
describe the linkages between the center and the defined community and
document appropriate levels of engagement and collaboration that
reflects the ability to carry out proposed center activities.
(b) Evaluation: Applicants need to describe how they will develop a
plan for evaluating the progress of the center in achieving its goals
and the national performance indicators. Applicants should describe
their capacity to: establish a five-year evaluation plan; conduct
center-level evaluation; and collect data to determine the performance
of the center using the national performance indicators. (See Appendix
2 for a description of Developing an Evaluation Framework: National
Academic Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention.) To assure
that applicants have this capacity, applicants should, at a minimum:
(i) Describe their center-level logic model specifying the center's
youth violence prevention priorities and expected outcomes. Within the
logic model, applicants should define the inputs, activities, outputs,
outcomes, evaluation, and contextual conditions for the center. The
logic model should be adapted from the national ACE Program conceptual
framework (See Appendix 2.) In addition to the logic model, a narrative
description of each component must be included. Please include the
center's mission within the narrative, limiting the mission statement
to one to two sentences. Further, within this narrative briefly
describe how the center's model is related to the national ACE Program
conceptual framework.
(ii) Document experiences of center faculty in conducting process,
outcomes, and impact evaluations in the past five years and address how
the center will continue or enhance its evaluation expertise as it
relates to the center-level evaluation.
(iii) Describe how they will create a five-year plan for evaluating
the critical components of the center's logic model. The plan should be
developed in collaboration with the center's community committee and
center partners and include: a description of how the plan will be
developed; identification of resources and staff responsible for
evaluation; specific evaluation questions, goals and objectives;
quantitative and qualitative assessment of the centers activities to
demonstrate program accomplishments and challenges; and a plan for
identifying emerging challenges.
(c) Infrastructure: Applicants should describe an infrastructure of
personnel and resources required to develop center functions and
processes. Applicants should have the capacity to recruit, hire, and
retain faculty and staff with the expertise to implement center
projects and activities; acquire, manage, and maintain the
communications and information systems necessary to operate an ACE; and
acquire and maintain university support for the center. To assure that
applicants have this capacity, applicants should, at a minimum:
(i) Provide an organizational chart for the center showing all
organizational units and functions. The chart should also reflect the
activities articulated in the center's logic model.
(ii) Describe the center's staffing and management plan. Describe
each proposed position and discuss how the position provides the
scientific and technical expertise needed to carry out both research
and non-research activities. Describe the minimum criteria and the
required expertise for each position. Describe the qualifications of
the proposed staff, how the proposed staff will interact with each
other, with other faculty outside the center, and with the university's
leaders to accomplish the center's goals and objectives. This
discussion should highlight the following center staff: leadership;
research; evaluation; communication and dissemination; training;
information management; and fiscal and administration staff.
(iii) Describe how your center will be integrated within the
university structure. Describe the facilities in which staff will work
and how these facilities enhance the center's ability to complete the
proposed activities. Describe the center's plan to enhance its core
capacity over the five-year period, including the commitment and
capability to obtain the communication, information systems, and other
tools necessary to accomplish goals and objectives (i.e., computer
equipment, telephones, facsimile machines, scanners, scientific
software, etc.).
(iv) Describe plans for cross-disciplinary training of new and
established investigators, including: adequacy of facilities for
workshops, seminars and other educational activities; capacity to train
predoctoral and/or postdoctoral students in multi-disciplinary
interpersonal youth violence prevention research; and experience in
effectively conducting mentoring and career development activities.
(d) Collaborations/Partnerships: Applicants need to develop and
describe the nature and range of partnerships needed to carry out
center activities. An infrastructure of resources and personnel is
required to support collaboration with partners and joint community
mobilization efforts. (See Appendix 3, Glossary of Terms, for an
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operational definition). Applicants should have the capacity to:
Establish and maintain relationships with partners; facilitate the
establishment and maintenance of the center's community committee(s);
and collaborate with partners on the planning and implementation of
core research, dissemination, training, and mobilization efforts. To
assure that applicants have this capacity, applicants should:
(i) Describe the plan for establishing or maintaining the center's
community committee(s). (See Appendix 3, Glossary of Terms for
additional information regarding the center community committee.) This
plan should include, at a minimum, the following: The intended
composition and membership of the committee and how the constituents
reflect the defined community; the proposed mission and role for the
committee in the center's planning and activities, consistent with the
logic model; a process for developing or refining guidelines for the
community committee over the first year of the funding period; a plan
for communication between the community committee and the center staff.
Applicants must provide evidence of commitment and cooperation of
current and potential members of the center's community committee
(e.g., letters of support, memorandums of understanding, or examples of
prior collaboration.)
(ii) Identify and describe other partners such as local and state
health departments, youth violence prevention organizations, community
groups and agencies, youth organizations, and academic units. At a
minimum, applicants need to briefly describe: Past partners, new
partners, and proposed partners; the proposed methods for establishing
and maintaining these partnerships, including how the lessons learned
from previous partnerships will be applied to the proposed methods; and
the partners' involvement in the center's proposed activities. In this
section, applicants should specifically address the partners' role in
developing this proposal and partners' expectations about their roles
in the planning and implementation of the center's activities.
(iii) Provide evidence of commitment and cooperation of current and
potential partners (e.g., letters of support, memorandums of
understanding, and examples of prior collaborations).
2. Surveillance and Research Core: Applicants need to describe and
develop the infrastructure of resources and personnel required to
support surveillance and research in the center.
Applicants need to enhance surveillance efforts and conduct
research, as described below:
(a) Surveillance: Applicants should document experience in
successfully developing, implementing and evaluating community level
surveillance efforts in the last five years and describe plans to
develop and/or enhance surveillance systems to be able to measure the
problem of youth violence as well as determine impact of Center
activities and research in the defined community. Applicants should
address how your system will: Measure youth violence patterns in the
defined community; be used to guide planning and evaluation of youth
violence programs (e.g., determine in what components and areas where
prevention efforts are making a difference); and advance the public
health research related to youth violence. All proposed surveillance
activities should include an appropriate translation and dissemination
plan. To assure that applicants have this capacity, applicants should,
at a minimum: Document experience in successfully developing,
implementing and evaluating community level surveillance efforts in the
last five years.
(b) Research: Applicants should describe center capacity to:
Establish a five-year research agenda; conduct core research and other
prevention research as described in the research agenda; and
effectively collaborate with partners in the identification, planning,
implementation, and dissemination of core research. To assure that
applicants have this capacity, applicants should, at a minimum:
Document experience in successfully conducting, evaluating, and
publishing youth interpersonal violence prevention research in the past
five years; and describe community-based youth interpersonal violence
prevention research activities and provide evidence of community
involvement in those activities; and describe experience in conducting
community-based participatory research in the past five years.
Applicants should describe (the core elements of) a five year
research agenda, including a description of the core youth
interpersonal violence prevention research project(s), and smaller
studies and seed projects, as described below. The research projects
and the agenda should reflect the potential for a center with a clear
mission that promotes multidisciplinary collaboration and career
development. The research agenda must represent more than an
interesting collection of projects. Research projects must be
interdependent (materials, results, data, or methodologies are shared
among the projects), interrelated (each project must have goals and
objectives that focus on the common theme), and multidisciplinary
(representing different scientific backgrounds, training and
expertise). Centers must develop research projects on youth
interpersonal violence prevention with a conceptual focus on the
defined community and that provide evidence of the potential for
meaningful inter-disciplinary collaboration, and that respond to the
NCIPC Research Agenda. Clear definitions of procedures used to select
proposed and future projects are required.
The core research project should address the following types of
applied interpersonal youth violence prevention research articulated in
the NCIPC Research Agenda and that furthers the center's work in the
defined community: intervention research, which examines the efficacy,
effectiveness, economic efficiency of strategies, programs and policies
in reducing or preventing youth interpersonal violence; and
dissemination and dissemination implementation research (which includes
research on the targeted distribution of information to a specific
audience; and research on the use of strategies to introduce or change
evidence-based youth interpersonal violence prevention interventions in
specific settings).
Applicants should also demonstrate the links to the community
within which the research is framed, documenting appropriate levels of
support and collaboration. If the research agenda is also supported by
non-ACE Program funding sources, identify the other funders.
The types of research projects centers are expected to carry out
are listed below:
(i) Core research projects are the larger scale projects with
annual budgets exceeding 150,000 a year, including direct and indirect
costs, and lasting up to five years. These projects typically will test
hypotheses and employ more sophisticated methodologies and/or larger
sample sizes than small studies. Core research projects require an RO1
level summary as described in PHS 398 (Revised 5/01 and updated 6/28/
02) guidelines.
(ii) Small studies of 25,000-150,000 a year, including direct and
indirect costs, for one to three years duration, might be extensions of
seed projects, either further developing methods or hypotheses in
preparation for a larger investigation, or might be stand alone
investigations sufficient to yield results
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worthy of publication in a peer-reviewed journal and/or a technical
report for a legislative body, governmental agency or youth violence
prevention organizations.
(iii) Seed projects, under 25,000 require a short write-up
describing the youth interpersonal violence prevention context of the
study, the objective, the design, the setting and participants, the
intervention being addressed, main outcome measurements, expected
results, timelines, costs.
The applicant should use the following template to describe each
proposed research project:
Title of the project.
Project Director/Lead Investigator for the project.
Institution(s)/partners involved in the project.
Categorization of the type of research (such as, but not
exclusively, intervention, dissemination, and dissemination-
implementation research).
Relationship of the project to the center's mission and
health priorities.
Relationship of the project to local youth interpersonal
violence prevention priorities, HHS objectives (e.g., Healthy People
2010), and NCIPC Research Agenda.
Indication of whether the project is new or ongoing. (If
ongoing, describe the prior work on this project.)
Evidence of community participation in the planning,
implementation, and evaluation of the project. Describe how the center
will collaborate with partners on refining and developing the research
methodology, recruiting of research participants, and reporting and
disseminating research findings.
Summary of the research project:
(i) Background
(ii) Importance
(iii) Relevance to the defined community.
(iv) Integration into 5 year research agenda
(v) Goals and objectives
(vi) Proposed timeframe for the project
(vii) Setting and context
(viii) Methods and measures
(ix) Study participants and recruitment strategy. Provide evidence that
the recipient (or a collaborating partner) has access to the study
population and that the participation by the study population will be
adequate to test hypotheses.
(x) Expected outcomes
(xi) Communication and dissemination
Data Sharing and Release: Describe plans for the sharing and
release of data, if applicable (See AR-25 for additional information).
3. Outreach and Education Core: To ensure that applicants have the
capacity to achieve the outreach and education program objectives,
applicants should describe the following:
(a) Community Mobilization: Applicants need to describe a draft
plan for community mobilization. Applicants should describe the
infrastructure of resources and personnel to support community
mobilization activities in the center and to develop and implement a
community mobilization plan involving the primary community the
center's activities will serve. For a definition of Community
Mobilization and Community Mobilization Plan (CMP), see Appendix 3,
Glossary of Terms. The two overriding goals of a community mobilization
plan should be to: enhance the community's capacity to address the
problem of youth violence and prevent or reduce youth violence. (For
additional Guidance on how to develop a CMP, see: http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/dphsdr/documents/MAPPone_pager.doc and http://mapp.naccho.org/mapp_introduction.asp
).
Applicants should have the capacity to: establish a five-year
community mobilization plan (CMP); conduct community mobilization
activities as required in the CMP; and effectively collaborate with
partners in the identification, planning, implementation, and
evaluation of the CMP. In addition, the CMP should provide evidence
that applicant or their collaborating partners have access to the
defined community population, and that the participation by the defined
community population will be adequate to develop, implement and
evaluate the plan.
To assure that applicants have this capacity, applicants should at
a minimum:
(i) Provide evidence of having identified youth interpersonal
violence prevention priorities, including disparities, within the
defined community and of having identified them in collaboration with
community partners.
(ii) Document experience in successfully developing, conducting,
and evaluating community mobilization activities in the past five
years.
(iii) Describe how the CMP helps fulfill the center's mission. If
the community mobilization efforts are also supported by non-ACE
Program collaborations, identify the other funders.
(iv) Describe the center's draft five-year CMP, including the goals
and objectives. The applicant should use the following template and
provide information to describe the community mobilization plan:
Title of the plan;
Core staff and community partners;
Institution(s)/partners involved in the project;
Indication of whether the community mobilization plan is
new or ongoing. (If ongoing, describe the prior work on this plan.)
Describe how the center will collaborate with partners: In
the refinement of the CMP, in the development of the community
mobilization methodology, for community recruitment, to report and
disseminating information and activities, and to evaluate CMP outcomes.
Summary of the Community Mobilization Plan.
This should include:
(i) Background;
(ii) How the plan furthers the defined community youth violence
prevention needs, and priorities;
(iii) Describe how the CMP is integrated into the center's five-
year research agenda and the centers mission;
(iv) Goals and objectives;
(v) Proposed timeframe for the plan;
(vi) Setting and context;
(vii) Methods and measures;
(viii) Community definition, participation and recruitment
strategy;
(ix) Expected outcomes;
(x) Communication, dissemination, and evaluation.
(b) Communication and Dissemination Activities: Applicants should
outline how they will develop a communication plan and describe the
communication and dissemination infrastructure and activities to be
carried out to further the program goals. Applicants should have the
capacity to: disseminate research by making its findings, methods, and
tools available; keep stakeholders (i.e., researchers, practitioners,
community members, and policymakers) abreast of the center's
accomplishments; produce products that reflect research progress and
results, and participate in coordinated activities with other ACEs and
their collaborating partners (e.g., state/local health departments,
community groups, and youth violence prevention research and practice
organizations) to facilitate linkages among ACEs and national/state/
local partners to ensure National Program objectives are being
achieved. To assure that applicants have this capacity, applicants
should, at a minimum:
(i) Outline how a communication plan will be developed that defines
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describes how the center's communication and dissemination activities
will be integrated into the center's activities, including the research
agenda.
(ii) Address how the center will work with collaborators and other
partners to extend the center's reach; how the center's activities and
research will affect youth violence prevention policies impacting their
community; and how other potential outcomes through communication and
dissemination efforts will be identified.
(iii) Describe the methods the center will use to translate,
communicate, and disseminate its products and other information.
Address how the center will produce, translate and distribute
publications and materials such as scientific papers, conference
reports, newsletters, and educational and training materials; plan
proposed meetings, personal interactions, and sharing of information
with collaborators for the development of long-term partnerships;
provide electronic dissemination of products and other information
through websites and any other means; and develop media releases and
statements, or pursue opportunities for media coverage.
(iv) Describe the center's infrastructure of resources and
personnel that will support the identified communication and
dissemination activities. At a minimum, describe the center's ability
to: disseminate community-based youth violence prevention research in
public health, allied disciplines and the constituent communities/
stakeholders; translate the content of the center's activities for
different audiences; develop a plan that reflects the community's youth
demographic and cultural profile; and access personnel and resources,
as applicable for layout and design, web site construction,
photography, proofreading, and other development and production
activities.
(c) Training, Technical Assistance and Mentoring: Applicants should
describe the center's draft plan for providing training, technical
assistance, and mentoring, and the infrastructure of resources and
personnel required to support training, technical assistance, and
mentoring of practitioners, researchers, students, community members,
and other partners, as applicable. Applicants should have the capacity
to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate training, technical
assistance, or mentoring activities. Applicants, at a minimum, should
address the following:
(i) Describe the center's assets or needs assessment (past,
current, or proposed) for training, technical assistance, and
mentoring. Explain collaboration with partners in the assets and needs
assessment.
(ii) Describe the center's draft plan for providing training,
technical assistance, and mentoring. This plan should include: goals
and objectives; partner collaboration; and how the plan reflects the
mission of the center and the assets and needs assessment described
above. Describe how any lessons learned from prior training; technical
assistance and mentoring activities during the past five years will be
applied to the proposed plan. Additionally, describe training
facilities and resources (e.g., ability to print materials, use video
and computer equipment, and develop Web sites).
(iii) Describe the opportunities and quality of the career
development and mentoring plan for the junior investigators in the
center. Applicants should describe the feasibility and potential for
junior investigators to gain research experience in youth violence
affecting at-risk populations.
The narrative should be no more than 100 pages (8.5'' x 11''),
double-spaced, and printed on one side only, with one-inch margins on
all sides and unreduced 12-point font. Appendices must be hard copy
documents (i.e., no audiovisual materials or posters).
In order to facilitate the preparation and review of the
application, the application components should be organized according
to the Table of Contents listed below. The table of contents below
supersedes the instructions contained in the PHS 398.
Detailed Budget for the Initial Budget for the Entire
Proposed Period for Each Project.
Budget for the Entire Proposed Period of Support for the
Entire Proposed Center.
Detailed Budget Justification for Each Proposed Project/
Activity for the Initial Budget Period.
Biographical Sketch-Principal Investigator/Program
Director.
Other Biographical Sketches.
Other Research Support.
Executive Summary with Overall Goals and Objectives of the
Center.
Center Logic Model.
Application Narrative:
Overall Description of the Proposed Center.
Statement on the Institutional Commitment to the Proposed Center.
Performance/Accomplishments in Last Project Period (Current
Centers).
Past Performance/Accomplishments Relevant to Proposed Center.
Administrative and Infrastructure Core: Defined Community;
Evaluation; Infrastructure; Collaborations/Partnerships.
Surveillance and Research Core: Surveillance Projects; Core
Research Projects; Seed Projects.
Outreach and Education Core: Community Mobilization; Communication
and Dissemination Activities: Training, Technical Assistance, and
Mentoring.
The RFA label available in the PHS 398 (rev. 5/2001) application
form must be affixed to the bottom of the face page of the application.
IV.3. Submission Dates and Times
LOI Deadline Date: December 22, 2004.
CDC requests that you send a LOI if you intend to apply for this
program. Although the LOI is not required, not binding, and does not
enter into the review of your subsequent application, the LOI will be
used to gauge the level of interest in this program, and to allow CDC
to plan the application review.
Application Deadline Date: February 10, 2005.
Explanation of Deadlines: Applications must be received in the CDC
Procurement and Grants Office by 4 p.m. eastern time on the deadline
date. If you send your application by the United States Postal Service
or commercial delivery service, you must ensure that the carrier will
be able to guarantee delivery of the application by the closing date
and time. If CDC receives your application after closing due to: (1)
carrier error, when the carrier accepted the package with a guarantee
for delivery by the closing date and time, or (2) significant weather
delays or natural disasters, you will be given the opportunity to
submit documentation of the carriers guarantee. If the documentation
verifies a carrier problem, CDC will consider the application as having
been received by the deadline.
This announcement is the definitive guide on application submission
address and deadline. It supersedes information provided in the PHS 398
application instructions. If your application is not received in the
CDC Procurement and Grants office by the deadline above, it will not be
eligible for review, and will be discarded. You will be notified that
you did not meet the submission requirements.
CDC will not notify you upon receipt of your application. If you
have a question about the receipt of your application, first contact
your courier. CDC will not notify you by mail upon receipt of your
application, but if you still have any questions, contact the PGO-TIM
staff at: 770-488-2700. Before
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calling, please wait two to three days after the application deadline.
This will allow time for applications to be processed and logged.
IV.4. Intergovernmental Review of Applications
Executive Order 12372 does not apply to this program.
IV.5. Funding Restrictions
Restrictions, which must be taken into account while writing your
budget, are as follows:
Funds relating to the conduct of research will not be
released until the appropriate assurances and Institutional Review
Board approvals are in place.
If you are requesting indirect costs in your budget, you must
include a copy of your indirect cost rate agreement. If your indirect
cost rate is a provisional rate, the agreement must be less than 12
months of age.
IV.6. Other Submission Requirements
LOI Submission Address: Submit your LOI by express mail, delivery
service, fax or e-mail to:
Address for Express Mail or Delivery Service: NCIPC Extramural
Resources Team, CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control,
2945 Flowers Road, Yale Building, Room 2054, Atlanta, Georgia 30341.
Address for U.S. Postal Service Mail: NCIPC Extramural Resources
Team, CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 4770
Buford Hwy, NE., Mailstop K-62, Atlanta, GA 30341, telephone: 770-488-
4037, fax: 770-488-1662, e-mail: cipert@cdc.gov.
Application Submission Address: Submit the original and one copy of
your application by mail or express delivery service to: Technical
Information Management CE05-018, CDC Procurement and Grants Office,
2920 Brandywine Road, Atlanta, GA 30341.
At the time of submission, four additional copies of the
application, and four copies of all appendices must be sent to:
Address for Express Mail or Delivery Service: NCIPC Extramural
Resources Team, CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control,
2945 Flowers Road, Yale Building, Room 2054, Atlanta, Georgia 30341.
Address for U.S. Postal Service Mail: NCIPC Extramural Resources
Team, CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 4770
Buford Hwy, NE., Mailstop K-62, Atlanta, GA 30341.
Applications may not be submitted electronically at this time.
V. Application Review Information
V.1. Criteria
Applicants are required to provide measures of effectiveness that
will demonstrate the accomplishment of the objectives identified in the
cooperative agreement. Measures of effectiveness must relate to the
performance goals stated in the ``Purpose'' section of this
announcement. Measures must be objective and quantitative, and must
measure the intended outcome. These measures of effectiveness shall be
submitted with the application and shall be an element of evaluation.
The goals of CDC-supported research are to advance the
understanding of biological systems, improve the control and prevention
of disease and injury, and enhance health. In the written comments,
reviewers will be asked to evaluate the application in order to judge
the likelihood that the proposed research will have a substantial
impact on the pursuit of these goals.
The scientific review group will address and consider the following
items in the determination of scientific merit.
1. Administrative and Infrastructure Core (Total: 150 points)
(a) Defined Community (25 points). To what extent does the
applicant adequately define and describe the primary community that the
center's activities serve, such as: (i) The size of the defined
geographic or non-geographic community, (ii) characteristics such as
demographic make up, socioeconomic, and cultural characteristics, (iii)
levels of youth violence and a description of the prevalent risk and
protective factors, (iv) the youth violence prevention and public
health infrastructure, including levels of organization and support for
interpersonal youth violence prevention and community health
interventions, (v) community assets and history of ``community
participation, (vi) existing health, education, community, justice and
other local policies related to youth violence prevention. How well
does the applicant describe the center links to the defined community
and document appropriate levels of engagement and collaboration?
(b) Program Evaluation (50 points). To what extent does the
applicant: (i) Appropriately describe the center-level logic model and
provide a narrative description of components of the logic model, (ii)
sufficiently describe and justify how each component of the center's
logic model relates to or differentiates from the national ACE Program
conceptual framework, (iii) describe relevant evaluation experiences
and expertise as it relates to conducting an evaluation of the
applicant's center, (iv) articulate a five-year evaluation plan for
evaluating the critical components of the center's logic model,
including the goals and objectives, and (v) illustrate how the center's
evaluation plan is related to the national ACE Program evaluation
activities, which includes annual reporting on national performance
indicators.
(c) Infrastructure (25 points). To what extent does the applicant:
(i) Provide a detailed organizational chart that represents the
center's activities, (ii) describe how the organizational structure
facilitate the center's activities, (iii) describe the positions needed
to accomplish the center's goals and objectives, (iv) propose a
staffing plan with the required experience, expertise, and percentage
of effort among the center's leadership, research, evaluation,
communications, training, information management, and fiscal
administration staff to accomplish its proposed goals and objectives,
(v) explain how it will increase its capacity over time, (vi)
demonstrated the applicant's commitment to the center (e.g.,
facilities, technological resources, etc.)and adequate university
commitment to establish and maintain an identity for the proposed
center.
Is sufficient documentation of institutional endorsement of the
proposed five-year research and community mobilization plans offered,
including: (i) Letters of commitment from senior institutional
officials from both collaborating institutions, (ii) letters of support
that fully address and support the priorities and objectives of the
center.
(d) Collaborations/Partnerships (50 points). To what extent does
the applicant: (i) Describe the center's community advisory committee,
particularly its initial mission, roles, composition, and plans for
developing or refining guidelines, (ii) provide letters of support or
other evidence from these partners of active participation in this
collaboration that fully address and support the priorities and
objectives of the center, (iii) outline the past and newly established
partnerships, the roles of these partners, and the methods for
establishing and maintaining the partnerships, and (iv) articulate the
proposed activities with the identified partners?
2. Surveillance and Research Core (Total: 200 Points)
(a) Surveillance (50 points). To what extent does the applicant:
(i) Describe the establishment and/or enhancement of surveillance
system(s) to be able to measure the problem of youth violence
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in the chosen community, (ii) address how these efforts will lead to a
better understanding of factors influencing youth violence prevention,
and (iii) include an appropriate translation and dissemination plan for
the proposed surveillance activities?
(b) Research (150 points). To what extent does the applicant:
(i) Describe the research project(s) linkage to the center's
mission and priorities identified in the logic model and the NCIPC
Research Agenda? Outline a conceptual research framework, design,
methods, and analyses that are well integrated, and appropriate to the
aims of the center? Propose research project(s) that address an
important research objective related to youth interpersonal violence
prevention and disparities in the defined community? Explain how this
research will lead to a better understanding of factors influencing
youth violence prevention in the defined community?
(ii) Articulate the significance of the proposed research, and
describe the effect of these studies on the concepts or methods that
drive the youth violence prevention field? Employ novel concepts,
approaches or methods in youth violence prevention research? Explain
how the research challenges existing paradigms or develops new
methodologies or technologies? Propose research of sufficient
originality, novelty, and innovation to make it highly relevant to the
overall goals and objectives of the national ACE Program? Acknowledge
potential problem areas and consider alternative interdisciplinary
approaches? Offer clear evidence of significant interdisciplinary
interactions in the conception, design, and proposed implementation of
the research?
(iii) Document collaboration with the community, providing clear
evidence of community participation in developing and conducting the
project? Demonstrate community support and liaison, and evidence of
interaction with, and participation of community members and community
leaders in the development and conduct of the research? Propose a
design that demonstrates sensitivity to cultural and socioeconomic
factors in the community?
(iv) Demonstrate success in conducting, evaluating, and publishing
previous community-based youth violence prevention research in the past
five years? Demonstrate a reasonable degree of community-based
participatory research, and being trained and well-suited to carry out
this work? Propose work appropriate to the experience level of center
researchers?
(v) Describe a scientific environment conducive to the probability
of success of the research to be conducted? Propose studies that take
advantage of unique features of the scientific environment or employ
useful collaborative arrangements? Provide evidence of adequate
institutional and community support?
(vi) Provide sufficient evidence regarding the development and
implementation of effective communication channels between researchers
and community members? Address plans for useful and successful
practical dissemination of project activities and findings within the
defined community?
3. Outreach and Education Core (Total: 150 Points)
(a) Community Mobilization Plan (50 points). To what extent does
the applicant's draft plan:
(i) Enhance the community's capacity to address the problem of
youth violence and improve the health of the community, by preventing
or reducing youth violence, particularly among those most affected?
(ii) Present clear goals, objectives and activities that address
the youth violence problem in the defined community? Address and take
into account community contextual factors (i.e. socioeconomic and
cultural context, level of youth violence, public health and youth
violence prevention infrastructure, history of community participation
and existing support for the issue)?
(iii) Offer adequate evidence of center experience in successfully
developing, conducting, evaluating, and publishing on community
mobilization activities in the past five years? Delineate community
involvement in the development of the CMP?
(iv) Address the development and review of the plan (i.e. describe
external review and critique mechanisms)?
(b) Communications and Dissemination (50 points). To what extent
does the applicant: (i) Address the diversity or special needs of the
community or subgroups, (ii) describe communications and dissemination
activities that are integrated into the center's goals and objectives,
(iii) anticipate how these activities will have an effect on local
policies, and other potential outcomes, (iv) describe how the proposed
methods for the center's communication and dissemination activities to
help accomplish the center's goals and objectives, and (v) describe an
adequate infrastructure of resources and personnel to support the
center's communication and dissemination activities?
(c) Training, Technical Assistance and Mentoring (50 points). To
what extent does the applicant: (i) Describe and justify the center's
assets or needs assessments for training, technical assistance, or
mentoring activities, (ii) outline a suitable training, technical
assistance, and mentoring plan that reflects the mission of the center
and the assets or needs assessment described above, (iii) describe the
opportunities and quality of the career development and mentoring plan
for the junior investigators in the center.
Protection of Human Subjects from Research Risks: Does the
applicant adequately address the requirements of Title 45 CFR part 46
for the protection of human subjects? This will not be scored; however,
an application can be disapproved if the research risks are
sufficiently serious and protection against risks is so inadequate as
to make the entire application unacceptable.
Inclusion of Women, Minorities in Research: Does the applicant
adequately address the CDC Policy requirements regarding the inclusion
of women, ethnic, and racial groups in the proposed research? (See
Attachment 1, AR-2 for more information). This includes: (1) The
proposed plan for the inclusion of both sexes and racial and ethnic
minority populations for appropriate representation; (2) the proposed
justification when representation is limited or absent; (3) a statement
as to whether the design of the study is adequate to measure
differences when warranted; and (4) a statement as to whether the plans
for recruitment and outreach for study participants include the process
of establishing partnerships with community(ies) and recognition of
mutual benefits.
Inclusion of Children as Participants in Research Involving Human
Subjects. The NIH maintains a policy that children (i.e., individuals
under the age of 21) must be included in all human subjects research,
conducted or supported by the NIH, unless there are scientific and
ethical reasons not to include them. This policy applies to all initial
(Type 1) applications submitted for receipt dates after October 1,
1998. NCIPC has adopted this policy for this announcement.
All investigators proposing research involving human subjects
should read the ``NIH Policy and Guidelines'' on the inclusion of
children as participants in research involving human subjects that is
available at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/children/children.htm
.
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Budget: The reasonableness of the proposed budget and the requested
period of support in relation to the proposed research.
V.2. Review and Selection Process
Applications will be reviewed by the Procurement and Grants Office
(PGO) staff for completeness, and for responsiveness by the National
Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Incomplete applications and
applications that are non-responsive will not advance through the
review process. Applicants will be notified that their application did
not meet submission requirements.
Applications that are complete and responsive to the announcement
will be evaluated for scientific and technical merit by an appropriate
peer review group or charter study section convened by the National
Center for Injury Prevention and Control in accordance with the review
criteria listed above. As part of the initial merit review, all
applications may:
Undergo a process in which only those applications deemed
to have the highest scientific merit by the review group, generally the
top half of the applications under review, will be discussed and
assigned a priority score.
Receive a written critique.
Receive, if deemed to have the highest scientific merit, a
second programmatic level review by the Science and Program Review
Subcommittee (SPRS) of the Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and
Control (ACIPC).
Applications which are complete and responsive may be subjected to
a preliminary evaluation (streamline review) by an external peer review
committee, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Initial Review Group (IRG), to determine if the application is of
sufficient technical and scientific merit to warrant further review by
the IRG. CDC will withdraw from further consideration applications
judged to be noncompetitive and promptly notify the principal
investigator/program director and the official signing for the
applicant organization. Those applications judged to be competitive
shall be further evaluated by a dual review process.
All awards will be determined by the Director of the NCIPC based on
priority scores assigned to applications by the primary review
committee IRG, recommendations by the secondary review committee of the
Science and Program Review Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee for
Injury Prevention and Control (ACIPC), consultation with NCIPC senior
staff, and the availability of funds.
The primary review will be a peer review conducted by the IRG. All
applications will be reviewed for scientific merit in accordance with
the review criteria listed above. Applications will be assigned a score
based on a scoring system of 100-500 points, in which the strongest
applications will receive a higher point score, and the weakest
applications a lower point score.
The Science and Program Review Subcommittee (SPRS) of NCIPC's
Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control (ACIPC) will
conduct the secondary review. The ACIPC Federal agency experts will be
invited to attend the secondary review, and will receive modified
briefing books (i.e., abstracts, strengths and weaknesses from summary
statements, and project officer's briefing materials). ACIPC Federal
agency experts will be encouraged to participate in deliberations when
applications address overlapping areas of research interest, so that
unwarranted duplication in federally funded research can be avoided and
special subject area expertise can be shared. The NCIPC Division
Associate Director for Science (ADS) or their designees will attend the
secondary review in a similar capacity as the ACIPC Federal agency
experts to assure that research priorities of the announcement are
understood and to provide background regarding current research
activities. Only SPRS members will vote on funding recommendations, and
their recommendations will be carried to the entire ACIPC for voting by
the ACIPC members in closed session. If any further review is needed by
the ACIPC, regarding the recommendations of the SPRS, the factors
considered would be the same as those considered by the SPRS.
The secondary review committee's responsibility is to develop
funding recommendations for the NCIPC Director based on the results of
the primary review, the relevance and balance of proposed research
relative to the NCIPC programs and priorities, and to assure that
unwarranted duplication of federally-funded research does not occur.
The secondary review committee has the latitude to recommend to the
NCIPC Director, to reach over better-ranked proposals in order to
assure maximal impact and balance of proposed research. The factors to
be considered will include:
a. The results of the primary review including the application's
priority score as the primary factor in the selection process.
b. The relevance and balance of proposed research relative to the
NCIPC programs and priorities.
c. The significance of the proposed activities in relation to the
priorities and objectives stated in ``Healthy People 2010,'' the
Institute of Medicine report, ``Reducing the Burden of Injury,'' and
the ``CDC Injury Research Agenda.''
d. Budgetary considerations.
Award Criteria: Criteria that will be used to make award decisions
during the programmatic review include:
Merit (as determined by peer review)
Availability of funds
Geographic diversity
Consistency with research priorities in CDC's Injury Research
Agenda
V.3. Anticipated Announcement and Award Dates
September 1, 2005.
VI. Award Administration Information
VI.1. Award Notices
Successful applicants will receive a Notice of Grant Award (NGA)
from the CDC Procurement and Grants Office. The NGA shall be the only
binding, authorizing document between the recipient and CDC. The NGA
will be signed by an authorized Grants Management Officer, and mailed
to the recipient fiscal officer identified in the application.
Unsuccessful applicants will receive notification of the results of
the application review by mail.
VI.2. Administrative and National Policy Requirements 45 CFR Part 74
and Part 92
For more information on the Code of Federal Regulations, see the
National Archives and Records Administration at the following Internet
address: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html.
The following additional requirements apply to this project:
AR-1 Human Subjects Requirements.
AR-2 Requirements for Inclusion of Women and Racial and Ethnic
Minorities in Research.
AR-9 Paperwork Reduction Act Requirements. Projects that
involve the collection of information from ten or more persons and that
are funded by cooperative agreements will be subject to review and
approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
AR-10 Smoke-Free Workplace Requirements.
AR-11 Healthy People 2010.
AR-12 Lobbying Restrictions.
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AR-13 Prohibition on Use of CDC Funds for Certain Gun Control
Activities.
AR-21 Small, Minority, Women-Owned Businesses.
AR-22 Research Integrity.
AR-23 States and Faith-Based Organizations.
AR-24 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Requirements.
Additional information on AR-1 through AR-24 can be found on the
CDC Web site at the following Internet address: http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/ARs.htm
.
AR-25 Release and Sharing of Data.
Starting with the December 1, 2004 receipt date, all ``Requests for
Applications (RFA)/Program Announcements (PA)'' soliciting proposals
for individual research projects of $500,000 or more in total (direct
and indirect) costs per year require the applicant to include a plan
describing how the final research data will be shared/released or
explain why data sharing is not possible. Details on data sharing and
release, including information on the timeliness of the data and the
name of the project data steward, should be included in a brief
paragraph immediately following the Research Plan Section of the PHS
398 form. References to data sharing and release may also be
appropriate in other sections of the application (e.g. background and
significance, or human subjects requirements). The content of the data
sharing and release plan will vary, depending on the data being
collected and how the investigator is planning to share the data. The
data sharing and release plan will not count towards the application
page limit and will not factor into the determining scientific merit or
the priority scoring. Investigators should seek guidance from their
institutions on issues related to institutional policies, and local IRB
rules, as well as local, state and federal laws and regulations,
including the Privacy Rule.
Further detail on the requirements for addressing data sharing in
applications for NCIPC funding may be obtained by contacting NCIPC
program staff or by visiting the NCIPC Internet Web site at: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/osp/sharing_policy.htm
.
VI.3. Reporting
You must provide the CDC with original, plus two hard copies of the
following reports:
1. Interim progress report (PHS 2590, OMB Number 0925-0001, rev. 5/
2001) no less than 90 days before the end of the budget period. The
progress report will serve as your non-competing continuation
application, and must contain the following elements:
a. Current Budget Period Activities Objectives.
b. Current Budget Period Financial Progress.
c. New Budget Period Program Proposed Activity Objectives.
d. Detailed Line-Item Budget and Justification.
e. Measures of Effectiveness.
f. Additional Requested Information.
2. Financial status report, no more than 90 days after the end of
the budget period.
3. Final financial status and final performance reports, no more
than 90 days after the end of the project period.
4. Additional requested information: The applicant will be
responsible for submitting information on program performance. This
will include, but is not limited to the following: providing
information on all projects (i.e., core projects, special interest
projects, and other funded projects) and products (i.e., publications,
presentations, surveys, etc.); providing semi-annual updates on
information requested by the program and provided in the application;
and collaborating with the national ACE Program on the continued
development and improvement of a reporting system.
These reports must be mailed to the Grants Management Specialist
listed in the ``Agency Contract'' section of this announcement.
VII. Agency Contacts
We encourage inquiries concerning this announcement. For general
questions about this announcement, contact: Technical Information
Management Section, CDC Procurement and Grants Office, 2920 Brandywine
Road, Atlanta, GA 30341-4146, telephone: (770) 488-2700.
For questions about scientific/research program technical issues
contact: Thomas Vogelsonger, National Center for Injury Prevention and
Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford
Highway, NE. MS K-02, Atlanta, GA 30341, telephone: (770) 488-4823,
FAX: (770) 488-1662, e-mail: TVoglesonger@cdc.gov.
For questions about peer review issues, contact: Gwen Cattledge,
Ph.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for
Injury Prevention and Control, 4770 Buford Hwy, NE., Mailstop K-02,
Atlanta, GA 30341, telephone: 770-488-1430, e-mail: GXC8@cdc.gov.
For financial, grants management, or budget assistance, contact:
James Masone, Contracts Specialist, CDC Procurement and Grants Office,
2920 Brandywine Road, Atlanta, GA 30341-4146, telephone: 770-488-2736,
FAX: 770-488-2671, e-mail: ZFT2@cdc.gov.
VIII. Other Information
This and other CDC funding opportunity announcements can be found
on the CDC Web site, Internet address: http://www.cdc.gov. Click on
``Funding'' then ``Grants and Cooperative Agreements.''
To locate the following attachments/appendices for this program
announcement go to CDC Web site.
Dated: November 10, 2004.
William P. Nichols,
Acting Director, Procurement and Grants Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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Narrative Description of the Conceptual Framework for the National
Academic Centers of Excellence for Youth Violence Prevention (ACE)
Program
The conceptual framework for the National Academic Centers of
Excellence for Youth Violence Prevention (ACE) Program was developed to
describe the future orientation of the program, its activities and the
outcomes it expects to achieve. The national framework or logic model
was created through a participatory process involving a diverse set of
national, state, and local stakeholders and ACE grantees, and draws
heavily from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Prevention Research
Centers (PRC) model. The elements of the framework and its linkages are
consistent with the Congressional language authorizing the
establishment of the program, and CDC research policies.
This model serves as a planning mechanism for center in guiding
their activities during the 5-year grant period. The framework
identifies the inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes common to all
ACE's and shows the expected relationships among these components. The
diagram of the framework summarizes how the program is presumed to
work. Although the boxes of the framework are shown in a linear
fashion, the relationships among them are expected to be complex,
interactive, and recursive over time.
The national framework does not imply that one size fits all. To
reflect uniqueness, each ACE should create their own logic model by
tailoring the national framework or logic model to the center's
specific activities and goals. The national framework cannot show the
emphasis an individual ACE may place on one type of activity over
another. The time required to achieve different outputs may vary among
ACEs and depends on many factors, such as the type of research
conducted and other activities undertaken, the amount of resources
devoted to activities such as dissemination, and contextual factors.
Thus, the framework does not specify the time it may take to achieve
outputs or outcomes.
Diagram Note: The size of the boxes in the diagram depends on
the amount of text in each box and does not denote the relative
importance of a specific element.
Inputs. The first column of the conceptual framework, inputs,
refers to the assumptions underlying a program and the infrastructure
that must be in place before a program can be implemented. The four
inputs the framework captures are described below.
Youth Prevention Priorities. Each ACE is established to address
youth interpersonal violence prevention priorities and enhance
knowledge of effective youth violence prevention in a defined
community. Community is defined as a group of people who share some or
all of the following: geographic boundaries; a sense of membership;
culture and language; common norms, interests, or values; and common
health risks or conditions. [IOM 2002] [CDC/ATSDR Principles of
Community Engagement] It refers to a population
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that has a distinct identity. It can mean residents of a geographic
area, be that a catchement area, neighborhood, school district, city,
county or region within a county. It can be used with a modifier or
clause to describe a non-geographically based subgrouping such as, but
not exclusively: a community of youth violence prevention workers, a
community of health professionals, or an ethnic or language community.
The ACE program focuses its research activities on the violence
prevention issues of high priority to the defined community and that
address state or national youth violence prevention priorities, and
such gaps identified in the Research Agenda of CDC's National Center
for Injury Prevention and Control and those stated in Healthy People
2010.
Diagram Note: Two-way arrows connect the youth violence
prevention priorities and box and the next three combined input
boxes.
ACE Community Committee. CDC will require each ACE to form or work
with an existing ACE Community Committee. This group comprises members
of the ACE's defined community and adult and youth representatives of
agencies and organizations that serve the Center's designated
community. The Community Committee participates in the Center's
organization, research, or other activities. Committee members
typically represent an identified group or population and participate
in the committee in order to provide the perspective and knowledge of a
designated population or group to the activities of the Center.
The inputs provided by an ACE Community Committee to the ACE
include guidance, advice on ACE agendas and plans, expertise, contacts,
essential information about the designated community as well as
intangible benefits. Some ACE's may wish to form additional advisory
groups, as needed, such as a policy board, a youth advisory board, or
advisory committees for individual research projects. The decision to
form these additional groups depends on the needs of the ACE and the
community.
ACE Infrastructure. Before conducting specific youth violence
prevention research, projects, and health promotion activities, an ACE
must have the necessary internal infrastructure. This infrastructure
includes the necessary human resources capacity to recruit faculty with
the necessary core expertise, diversity and sensitivity. It also
includes the necessary evaluation expertise as well as faculty and
staff who have the requisite multidisciplinary expertise to implement
ACE projects and activities and experience working with the community,
and expertise for evaluating the implementation of the ACE's activities
and to assess the ACE's outcomes and accomplishments. The Centers are
mandated to create an infrastructure that facilitates initiatives that
involve researchers and practitioners from varied disciplines, and
collaboration across university centers. Finally, ACE capacity requires
communication and data systems that enable and facilitate work, and
administrative capacity (e.g., financial resources).
Relationships with Center Partners. Each ACE is also expected to
establish and maintain center partnerships with institutions such as
state and local health, education, justice departments, other
university partners, other ACEs, Injury Control Research Centers
(ICRCs), Prevention Research Centers, national youth violence
prevention organizations, and CDC. Partnerships are intended to
strengthen the ACE's surveillance, research, training, mentoring,
community mobilizing and dissemination activities in its identified
community. Partners can collaborate with the ACE in designing and
conducting research and other ACE projects and in disseminating
research findings, which are expected to help facilitate the
translation of public health research and related activities to
practice and policy.
Diagram Note: A dotted box around these three inputs indicates
that the ACE, its community, and its external partners are the major
stakeholders; they collaborate with each other to implement the ACE
Program. The inputs for Community Committee, Infrastructure, and
Relationships with Partners also have two-way arrows touching each
other. A two-way arrow connects the combined boxes for these inputs
with that for the next input. One-way arrows also connect the three
boxes to the first two program activities.
Motivating Conditions for Developing and Maintaining Relationships.
The conceptual framework also recognizes the conditions motivating the
development and maintenance of relationships with community partners
and others. These conditions may include trust and tangible or
intangible benefits (such as access to expertise or acceptance by a
community) and sharing of resources gained from the partnership. These
conditions may influence a partner's willingness to form a relationship
with the ACE, the nature and strength of the relationship, and an ACE's
ability to sustain the relationship over time.
Activities. The second and third columns of the conceptual
framework capture the activities that include: developing a research
agenda; developing a community mobilization plan; conducting
surveillance, research, building capacity and implementing the
community mobilization plan. (Multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary
collaboration and dissemination are inputs and outputs, respectively.)
Research Agenda. An ACE is encouraged to engage stakeholders within
its defined community in developing an overall research plan,
identifying research priorities, selecting research projects,
recruiting research participants, refining research methods, developing
interventions, conducting research, and reporting and disseminating
research findings. ACE Centers are charged with establishing a five-
year research agenda with tied to one or more HHS objectives, Healthy
People 2010, NCIPC Research Agenda, Guide to Community Prevention
Services and local youth violence prevention research priorities.
Community Mobilization Plan. ACEs are charged with the development
and implementation of a five-year community mobilization or action plan
(in collaboration with the Community Committee). Further, the
development of a Community Mobilization Plan should be tied to the
Research Agenda with an identified relationship to one or more youth
violence prevention priorities.
Diagram Note: A two-way arrow connects the boxes for the
development of the research agenda and the development of the
community mobilization plan. One-way arrows connect the boxes for
the mobilization plan and the research agenda to the next set of
activities. A two-way arrow connects the research agenda and the
mobilization plan as these processes should inform one another.
Conduct Core Activities:
Surveillance. This core area includes the gathering,
analysis and interpretation of surveillance data to enable the defined
community with whom the ACE is working to better measure the problem of
youth violence, and accurately reflect trends in the target community
and the greater community. All Surveillance activities proposed should
include an appropriate translation and dissemination plan.
Research. The research conducted should be informed by
local priorities, the NCIPC Research Agenda, and contribute to new
methods of study, understandings of, or ways to prevent youth
interpersonal violence. In addition, ACEs may conduct research funded
by other federal agencies and by state agencies, community-based
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organizations, and foundations. All research is expected to be
conducted using sound research methods that further the field of youth
interpersonal prevention research. All research proposed under the ACE
program should include an appropriate dissemination plan.
Build Capacity. ACEs are also charged with developing a
five-year plan to train, provide technical assistance to, or mentor
health professionals, researchers, practitioners, students, community
members, and others. These activities, which are expected to be
developed in collaboration with the recipients, may cover a range of
topics, including youth violence prevention best practices, community
building, research, and evaluation as well as other needs identified by
ACE partners. ACEs may also train and provide technical assistance to
community partners on implementing specific prevention and health
promotion interventions, including effective practices.
Implement the Community Mobilization Plan. ACE's are
expected to form, nurture and advance partnerships with the community
designed to implement evidence-based strategies or promising programs.
Community implementation efforts can include convening stakeholders--
including the most affected--helping to organize across different
sectors, fostering strategic alliances, and strengthening community
bonds; assessing community resources; mapping community assets; and
enabling a fuller understanding of and response to the nature and
dynamics of local violence.
Diagram Note: Two-way arrows connect these four core activities
to one another. One-way arrows connect surveillance, research,
capacity building, and community implementation to the three outputs
(intervention implementation, communication and dissemination, and
training and technical assistance).
Outputs. The fourth column captures outputs generated or produced
as a result of program activities. Through the process of planning,
carrying out public health-related youth violence prevention
activities, and the promotion of collective action, it is expected that
the professionals and community residents will gain increased skills
and confidence (or a greater sense of ``efficacy'') enhancing its
capacity for prevention. Enhanced capacity includes an improved ability
on the part of agencies and organizations to implement and make well-
reasoned decisions about effective violence prevention programs and
services. It also includes enhanced academic infrastructure in service-
learning, student practicum opportunities. This capacity combines a
community's and a university's commitment, resources, and skills to
respond to public health needs and priorities. Another aspect of
enhanced capacity is the development of skilled ``violence
preventers.'' This term includes not only professionals--both
developing new skills for those entering the field as young
researchers/practitioners and improving existing skills of current
violence prevention workers--but also providing skills to youth,
parents, and volunteers. Community stakeholders who collaborate with
the ACE's in implementing research projects and who participate in ACE-
sponsored training and technical assistance improve their skills as a
result. The selected measurable products, or outputs, of these
activities and processes are described below.
Communication and Dissemination. The communication and
dissemination of research and evaluation findings are another type of
output. These findings are typically published in peer-reviewed
journals, books, and technical reports. They also may be presented to
various audiences at professional conferences, community meetings, or
other settings, and reported to the media. Findings from research
conducted with a community should be shared with community partners and
with other ACE's.
Intervention Implementation. Many ACEs develop, implement and test
violence prevention strategies, programs and interventions in a
community, encouraging the implementation of evidence-based strategies
or promising programs. A program may rely on a curriculum, a manual, or
a particular prevention strategy or health promotion tool, which is
packaged and made available to interested organizations or individuals.
Training, Technical Assistance. ACE's training or technical
assistance activities can include an assessment of the skills acquired,
number of trainees and recipients of technical assistance, the number
and duration of training or technical assistance events, and the
satisfaction of participants with the training or technical assistance
they received.
Diagram Note: Together, all the output boxes connect to a
combined set of two outcome boxes through a one-way arrow. These two
outcomes connect to each other by two-way arrows.
Outcomes. The last column of the conceptual framework shows the
outcomes, or the intended effects of cumulative program activities over
time.
Improved Practice and Policy. One expected outcome of the ACE
Centers' activities is the uptake of interventions and improved youth
interpersonal violence prevention practice and policies. Surveillance,
research, capacity building, and community implementation activities
conducted by the ACEs are expected to be translated into community
practice or policies adopted by local and state health departments,
schools, other public agencies (e.g., recreation departments, housing
authorities), and community-based organizations. Over time, these
interventions and policies may be disseminated beyond an ACE's defined
community and receive widespread use.
Reduction of Risk Factors/Increase in Protective Factors. Another
expected outcome of the ACE Centers' activities is the reduction of
risk factors/increase of protective factors in the community, a result
of the uptake of improved violence prevention practice and policies.
Expanded Resources and Recognition. An ACE may be able to expand
its resources beyond the core funding, research faculty, and initial
organizational and agency partnerships that were formed when it first
received CDC funding. An ACE may also gain recognition within a
community and the nation for expertise in a particular field or area of
youth interpersonal violence prevention, and for its partnerships.
Diagram Note: One set of dotted lines surrounds the boxes for
the two outcomes. A second set surrounds the two additional boxes
below it (expanded resources and recognition). These groupings show
the potential relationships with other components of the framework
with which they are logically connected or which they are likely to
influence or be influenced by. The outcomes flow back through
motivating conditions and up the input column. They also connect to
youth violence prevention agendas and down the input column. A one-
way feedback arrow also extends from the outcomes back to the inputs
of youth violence prevention priorities and motivating conditions
for developing and maintaining relationships.
Contextual Conditions. The box across the bottom of the conceptual
framework is for contextual conditions, which are socioeconomic,
political, and cultural factors external to the ACE Program that may
not be within its control but which may influence the implementation of
activities and achievement of outcomes. Note that these conditions may
relate to all components of the framework.
Evaluation. Evaluation is a part of the ACE Program (noted at the
top of the
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framework) that extends across all the inputs, activities, outputs, and
outcomes, except for the ultimate outcome. The arrow to each column
signifies that the ACE Program will evaluate aspects of each component,
guided by performance monitoring and evaluation questions. Many factors
can contribute to the final outcome, and empirical data demonstrating a
causal link between proposed program activities and improvements in
community health are lacking. Therefore, the ACE Program will not
evaluate the ACEs' effect on violence-induced death, disability and
injury among adolescents, but will evaluate program effect on improved
practice and policy, and reduction of risk factors/increase in
protective factors.
The ACE Program evaluation will collect data that may include
information about how inputs are being used to shape the ACE Program,
which activities are undertaken by the collective program, the quality
of the activities, and the specific outcomes the program is
accomplishing. CDC, ACEs, and other stakeholders can use evaluation
findings for many purposes, including modifying program activities or
enhancing and strengthening relationships with community partners.
Evaluation findings also provide information that can be shared with
external stakeholders, can help document the program's value, and may
provide justification for continuing or increasing program funding.
Appendix 2.--List of Indicators for the National Academic Center of
Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention Program
1. Evidence of ACE Community Committee participation in the
determination of ACE violence prevention priorities.
2. Level of ACE Community Committee members satisfaction with
participation.
3. Evidence of establishment of partnerships and maintenance of
partnerships.
4. Establishment of a Community Mobilization Plan.
5. Establishment of a Research Agenda.
6. Evidence of community improvements in the ability to monitor and
describe youth violence.
7. Extent to which the research portfolio is contributing to new
methods of study, understandings of, or ways to prevent youth violence.
8. Evidence that the ACE Center is mobilizing the community to
implement evidence-based strategies or promising programs.
9. Evidence of a communication and dissemination plan, developed
with input from key partners.
10. Evidence of producing and disseminating research findings
through peer-reviewed publications, and educational or technical
materials.
11. Evidence of a plan for training researchers, practitioners and
community members.
12. Extent to which center activities and evidence-based strategies
have been translated into the outcomes listed.
13. Extent to which researchers, practitioners, and community
members have been trained, mentored, or provided technical assistance
in youth violence prevention.
14. Evidence of new grants, contracts or other resources awarded to
the ACE Center or its partners.
Appendix 3.--Glossary of Terms
Youth Interpersonal Violence
Youth interpersonal violence is defined as: The intentional use of
physical force or power, threatened or actual, exerted by or against
children, adolescents or young adults, ages 10-24, which results in or
has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological
harm, maldevelopment or deprivation. Youth interpersonal violence
encompasses peer and community violence between individuals or groups
who may or may not know each other. This form of violence frequently
takes place outside the home, in the streets, or in institutional
settings, such as schools, workplaces, and prisons. Youth violence also
encompasses violence that occurs between youth and family members and
other intimate relations. The nature of violence can be physical,
sexual, and psychological. (Adapted from WHO Report on Violence and
Health, 2002). [Adapted from WHO Report on Violence and Health. To
access the Report go to: http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/world_report/en/
].
Community
Community is defined as a group of people who share some or all of
the following: geographic boundaries; a sense of membership; culture
and language; common norms, interests, or values; and common health
risks or conditions. [IOM 2002] [CDC/ATSDR Principles of Community
Engagement].--It refers to a population that has a distinct identity.
It can mean residents of a geographic area, such as a catchment area,
neighborhood, school district, city, county or region within a county.
It can be used with a modifier or clause to describe a non-
geographically based sub-grouping such as, but not exclusively: A
community of youth violence prevention workers, a community of health
professionals, or an ethnic or language community.
Community Mobilization
Community mobilization is a process through which action is
stimulated by a community itself or by others, that is planned, carried
out, and evaluated by a community's individuals, groups, and
organizations on a participatory and sustained basis to reduce or
prevent youth violence, and improves health. [Save the Children/Health
Communication Partnership]
Community Mobilization Plan (CMP)
The plan is a general description of how you and your partners
intend work with a particular community to mobilize around youth
violence prevention. A mobilization plan defines the overall goals and
objectives and identifies a process that will help interested
communities achieve them, not to determine specific community actions
or activities. The two overriding goals of community mobilization are
to: 1. Enhance the community's capacity to address the problem of youth
violence; 2. Prevent or reduce youth violence, thereby improving the
health of the community.
The goal of a community mobilization plan must be related to local
youth violence prevention priorities. Where communities perceive a
pressing youth violence prevention need, communities themselves may
define the goal. Alternatively, ACEs and their stakeholders may
identify a goal based on an analysis of community health indicators
(e.g., frequency and severity of specific health problems and
feasibility to address them). [Health Communication Partnership]
Community Participation
The active involvement of the members of a community in the
planning, creation, operation, evaluation, dissemination and oversight
of an initiative or project.
Community Committee
A group of individuals that represent groups and organizations
within the Center's designated community. The Community Committee
participates in the Center's organization, research, or other
activities. Committee members typically represent an identified group
or population and participate in the committee in order to provide the
perspective and knowledge of a
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designated population or group to the activities of the Center.
CDC will require each ACE to form an ACE Community Committee. This
group should comprise members of the ACE's defined community and adult
and youth representatives of agencies and organizations serving that
community. The inputs provided by an ACE Community Committee to the ACE
include guidance, advice on ACE agendas and plans, expertise, contacts,
essential information about the designated community as well as
intangible benefits. Some ACE's may wish to form additional advisory
groups, as needed, such as a policy board, a youth advisory board, or
advisory committees for individual research projects. The decision to
form these additional groups depends on the needs of the ACE and the
community.
Center Partnerships
Each ACE is also expected to establish and maintain center
partnerships with institutions such as state and local health,
education justice departments, other university partners, other ACEs,
Injury Control Research Centers (ICRCs), Prevention Research Centers,
national youth violence prevention organizations, and CDC. Partnerships
are intended to make the ACE's surveillance, research, training and
mentoring, community mobilizing and dissemination activities relevant
to its identified community. Partners can collaborate with the ACE in
designing and conducting research and other ACE projects and in
disseminating research findings, which are expected to help facilitate
the translation of public health research and related activities to
practice and policy.
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
Scientific inquiry conducted in communities in which community
members, persons affected by condition or issue under study and other
key stakeholders in the community's health have the opportunity to be
full participants in each phase of the work (from conception--design--
conduct--analysis--interpretation--conclusions--communication of
results).
Definition Developed by Inter Agency Working Group for CBPR, Convened
by NIEHS, NIH, August 2, 2002
According to the CARE-CDC Health Initiative, A Model for Global
Participatory Research, in community-based participatory research, the
definition of scientific rigor is broadened to encompass community
participation in decisionmaking at every phase of the research process:
defining the problem, setting goals, selecting methods, interpreting
data, and recommending policy. Essential to this philosophical
construct is the assurance of quality decision making throughout the
research process. In the document Building Community Partnerships in
Research, participatory research is described as the gold standard
toward which all federally funded research should aspire. (5)(p7).
[Building Community Partnerships in Research: Recommendations and
Strategies. Executive Summary. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept of Health and
Human Services; April 7, 1998.]
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