National Center for Family/Professional Partnerships | HRSA 16 049

Opportunity Information: Apply for HRSA 16 049

The National Center for Family/Professional Partnerships (NCFPP) funding opportunity is a discretionary Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) cooperative agreement (Funding Opportunity Number HRSA-16-049; CFDA 93.110) intended to strengthen how families and professionals work together to improve systems of care for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and youth with special health care needs (YSHCN), using the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) definitions referenced in the FOA. The central idea is to build national capacity for effective family engagement while also advancing cultural and linguistic competence across programs that serve CYSHCN and YSHCN. Rather than focusing on direct clinical services, the award is structured to support nationwide training, technical assistance, and leadership development that improves how systems include families and youth in decision-making and program improvement.

The opportunity has two main purposes. First, the NCFPP is expected to provide assistance and support to HRSA-funded Family-to-Family Health Information Centers (F2F HICs) and other MCHB investments, particularly around family engagement strategies and culturally and linguistically competent practices. This means the funded center functions like a national hub: developing tools, sharing best practices, offering training and consultation, and helping local and state partners build stronger partnerships with families and youth. Second, the NCFPP is expected to implement family and youth leadership development and training activities with a specific emphasis on racially and ethnically diverse minority families of CYSHCN and YSHCN. In practical terms, the program is designed to expand who gets to lead and influence CYSHCN systems work, with deliberate attention to equity and representation.

The overall program goal is to improve health and quality of life for CYSHCN. To make that goal measurable, the FOA lists several concrete performance objectives tied to leadership participation and the effectiveness of training and technical assistance. The program must set a baseline and then increase each year by 20 the number of family leaders and YSHCN leaders who report meaningful participation on community, state, or national teams focused on CYSHCN systems. It must also set a baseline and then increase each year by 10 the number of racially and ethnically diverse family and YSHCN leaders who are trained and who go on to serve on those systems-focused teams. Another annual target requires setting a baseline and increasing by 20 the number of trained family and YSHCN leaders who report improvements in knowledge, skills, abilities, and self-efficacy to serve in systems-level leadership roles. Beyond leadership counts, the FOA includes outcome expectations for the assistance provided: by 2019, 90% of F2F HIC respondents should report favorable evaluations indicating that NCFPP training and assistance helped them meet their project goals, and by 2019, 75% of maternal and child health (MCH) program respondents receiving assistance should report an increased ability to partner with families and YSHCN and to monitor those partnerships within systems-level initiatives.

Eligibility is broad within the United States. Any public or private entity may apply, including Indian tribes and tribal organizations (as defined in federal statute), as well as faith-based and community-based organizations. Foreign entities are not eligible for HRSA awards unless the underlying authorizing legislation explicitly permits it or the award is for research, which is not the general intent described here. The funding mechanism is a cooperative agreement, which typically means HRSA anticipates substantial involvement in the funded project through collaboration, guidance, and shared responsibilities, compared with a more hands-off grant structure.

Key administrative details included in the source information are that HRSA expected to make one award under this announcement, the original closing date was December 11, 2015, and the opportunity was created on October 13, 2015. The award ceiling is listed as 0 in the provided data extract, which commonly indicates that the ceiling was not specified in that particular listing or was handled elsewhere in the full FOA documentation. Overall, the opportunity is best understood as establishing a single national center responsible for building the field’s capacity to engage families and youth as true partners, with measurable annual growth in leadership participation and specific accountability targets for improving partner organizations’ ability to achieve systems-level, culturally responsive family-professional collaboration.

• The Health Resources and Services Administration in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "National Center for Family/Professional Partnerships" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.110.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2015-10-13.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2015-12-11. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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