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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the availability of fiscal year (FY) 2008 funds for cooperative agreements between the CDC and State Education Agencies (SEA), State Health Agencies (SHA), Territorial Education Agencies (TEA), Federally Recognized American Indian/Alaska Native Tribal Governments (TG), and large urban Local Education Agencies (LEA) to improve health and educational outcomes of young people through establishing and strengthening coordinated school health programs. Tribal governments are defined as an American Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or community that the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges to exist as an Indian tribe pursuant to the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994, 25 USC 479a.
The purpose of this program announcement is to improve the health and well-being of young people and prepare them to be healthy adults. Funding is made available to
This announcement places a strong emphasis on coordinating school health programs and activities. Applicants are encouraged to consider how to coordinate through cross-agency partnerships, such as between education and health agencies; across programmatic areas, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), sexually transmitted disease (STD), and teen pregnancy prevention, or physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco use prevention; by establishing or supporting coalitions; and across components of coordinated school health programs.
For verification and justification for using selected markers to determine eligibility and funding levels in FOA DP08-801, see funding eligibility information.
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