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Award announcement for the FY 2012 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Grant Program

October 3, 2012

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Child Care (OCC), in partnership with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), is pleased to announce awards for the FY 2012 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Grant Program. These funds support grants (cooperative agreements) to Tribes (or consortia of Indian Tribes), Tribal Organizations, or Urban Indian Organizations to conduct needs and readiness assessments; develop infrastructure needed for the  widespread planning, adopting, implementing, and sustaining of evidence-based maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting programs; implement with fidelity to evidence-based models high-quality home visiting programs for pregnant women and families with young children aged birth to kindergarten entry; measure program participants' progress toward meeting legislatively mandated benchmarks; and conduct a rigorous evaluation of the implemented home visiting program. The project period for these grants is 5 years, contingent on availability of funds.

Funds support:

  • Conducting a needs and readiness assessment of the tribal community that considers community characteristics and the quality and capacity of existing home visiting programs and other supportive services, examines community readiness to implement a quality home visiting program, is coordinated with other relevant needs assessments, and involves community stakeholders as appropriate;
     
  • Collaborative planning efforts to address identified needs by developing capacity and infrastructure to fully plan for, adopt, implement, and sustain high-quality home visiting programs that have strong fidelity to evidence-based models;
     
  • Providing high-quality, evidence-based home visiting services to pregnant women, expectant fathers, and parents and primary caregivers of young children aged birth to kindergarten entry;
     
  • Developing a data system and mechanism to measure, track, and report on progress toward meeting legislatively mandated benchmarks for participating children and families; and
     
  • Conducting rigorous local program evaluations that may include examining the effectiveness of home visiting models or components of models in affecting outcomes of value, adaptations of home visiting models for tribal communities, or questions regarding implementation or infrastructure necessary to support implementation of home visiting programs in tribal communities.

Six new awards, totaling $1.5 million, were made under the Tribal MIECHV program in FY 2012. In addition, 19 continuation awards to existing Tribal MIECHV grantees totaling $9 million were awarded in FY 2012. Total awards (new and continuation) under the Tribal MIECHV program were $10.5 million in FY 2012.

The new Tribal MIECHV awards are as follows:

Organization Name

City

State

  Project Title

Amount Of Award

Cherokee Nation

Tahlequah

OK

Cherokee Nation Home Visiting Program

$  275,000

Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

Bayfield

WI

Zaagichigaazowin (They are loved and treasured) Red Cliff Home Visiting Program

$  250,000

Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center

Pendleton

OR

Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Project

$ 200,000

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Durant

OK

Choctaw Better Beginnings

$ 200,000

Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

Siletz

OR

Siletz Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program

$ 200,000

Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, Inc.

Sault Sainte Marie

MI

Partnership for Anishinaabe Binoojiiyensag Tribal Home Visiting Initiative

$ 375,000

 

 

 

TOTAL

$ 1,500,000

 

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