Funding

State-based Perinatal Quality Collaborative
Deadlines: April 24, 2017
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accepting applications for a funding opportunity. These networks of perinatal care providers and public health professionals are working to improve pregnancy outcomes for women and newborns by advancing evidence-based clinical practices and processes through continuous quality improvement. The purpose of this program is to enhance the capabilities of state perinatal quality collaboratives to collect timely data to provide feedback to members to improve the quality of perinatal care in their respective states. For more information, click here.

National Telehealth Resource Center Program
Deadline: May 2, 2017
The Health Resources and Services Administration is accepting applications for the National Telehealth Resource Center Program (NTRC). The purpose of NTRC is to support the delivery of telehealth technical assistance through regional telehealth resource centers. Two NTRCs may be funded. For more information, click here.

Changing Minds: Professional Developmental and Public Education to Address Children Exposed to Violence and Childhood Trauma
Deadline: May 2, 2017
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is accepting applications for a funding opportunity to provide training, technical assistance and resources to state, local and tribal professionals who work with at-risk children and justice-involved youth. For more information, click here.

Forward Promise: Empowerment Projects
Deadline: May 2, 2017
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is accepting applications for a funding opportunity to promote opportunities for boys and young men of color (BYMOC) to heal, grow and thrive in the face of chronic stress and trauma. Empowerment Projects seek to strengthen organizations that provide culturally relevant healing responses to trauma and can partner with the youth-serving systems that touch BYMOC to advance new practices to prevent further traumatization. For more information, click here.

Regional Telehealth Resource Center Program
Deadline: May 7, 2017
The Health Resources and Services Administration is accepting application for the Regional Telehealth Resource Center Program (RTRC). The RTRC assists health care organization, health care networks and providers in the implementation of cost-effective telehealth programs to serve rural and medically underserved areas and populations. This funding opportunity announcement will support 12 RTRCs that focus on state-wide and regional telehealth activities. For more information, click here.

Healthy Habits: Timing for Developing Sustainable Healthy Behaviors in Children and Adolescents (R21)
Deadline: May 8, 2017
The National Institutes of Health is accepting applications for a funding opportunity that seeks to encourage innovative research to identify mechanisms of influence and/or promote positive sustainable health behavior(s) in children and youth (birth to age 21). For more information, click here.

YouthBuild
Deadline: May 9, 2017
The U.S. Department of Labor is accepting applications for a funding opportunity for YouthBuild, a community-based alternative education program for disconnected youth, ages of 16 and 24, including high school dropouts, adjudicated youth, youth aging out of foster care, youth with disabilities and homeless youth. For more information, click here.

Youth Farm Safety
Deadline: May 10, 2017
The Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for a funding opportunity for non-formal education programs and services in farm safety to promote rural health and seek to strengthen economic vitality. Non-formal education programs in the area of youth farm safety provide timely safety information to rural youth, their families and their on-farm employers, as well as increased access to opportunities for protection of youth health and promotion of safe agriculture practices. For more information, click here.
 
FY 2017 Vision 21: Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth State Demonstration Project
Deadline: May 11, 2017
The Office for Victims of Crime is accepting applications for a funding opportunity to address the enduring issue of child and youth victimization through state-level demonstration projects. The competitively awarded state-level demonstration sites will bring all the relevant systems and professionals together to establish a coordinated approach. For more information, click here.

OJJDP FY 2017 VOCA TTA for Child Abuse Professionals
Deadline: May 11, 2017
The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention's Victims of Child Abuse (VOCA) Training and Technical Assistance for Child Abuse Professionals Program provides funding to enhance the coordinated multidisciplinary investigation and prosecution of child abuse through training, technical assistance and information resources that emphasize the implementation of developmentally-appropriate, trauma-informed, and evidence-based programs, policies and practices. The National Children's Advocacy Center will provide training, technical assistance and online resources to child abuse professionals, as well as coordination activities among VOCA programs. The grantee will provide conference presentations for law enforcement, judicial personnel and crime victim advocates. For more information, click here.

Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program States/Territories Part B Supplemental Grant Program
Deadline: May 15, 2017
The Health Resources and Services Administration is accepting applications for a funding opportunity. The purpose of this program is to supplement the HIV care and treatment services provided by the states/territories through the HIV Care Grant Program — Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part B States/Territories Formula and AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) Formula and ADAP Supplemental Awards. The awards support access to a comprehensive continuum of high quality HIV care and treatment for low-income individuals and families living with HIV.  For more information, click here.

Healthy Lifestyles in Youth Project
Deadline: May 15, 2017
The Indian Health Service (IHS) is accepting applications for a funding opportunity to improve the health of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth through health promotion and health education programs. The purpose of the IHS cooperative agreement is to focus on addressing healthy lifestyle development, emphasizing nutrition and physical activity for AI/AN children and youth (7 through 11 years old). For more information, click here.

New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWFJ Programming
Deadline: May 16, 2017
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWFJ) is accepting applications for a funding opportunity, New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWFJ Programming. Through grantmaking, mentorship, career development and networking, New Connections enhances the research capacity of its grantees and network members. The researchers in this program come from multiple disciplines, work to build a culture of health with strong qualitative and quantitative skills, and produce and translate timely research results. For more information, click here.

Resource-Related Research Projects in the Epidemiology and Prevention of Pediatric Injury
Deadline: May 19, 2017 (Letter of intent)
The National Institutes of Health is accepting applications for a funding opportunity to develop research resources for use by the scientific community for furthering research in epidemiology and/or prevention of childhood injuries. The research resource should focus on things most likely to cause death or disability such as motor vehicle crashes, firearms, poisoning, drowning, self-injurious behavior, fires, burns or suffocation. For more information, click here.

Environmental Influences on Placental Origins of Development
Deadline: May 30, 2017 (Letter of intent)
The National Institutes of Health is accepting applications for the Environmental Influences on Placental Origins of Development. This funding opportunity will stimulate multidisciplinary research projects that use a combination of animal/cell models and non-invasive human placenta tissues or biomarkers to investigate how early life exposures affect placental growth, development, function and the subsequent health of the offspring. For more information, click here.

Summer Food Service Program
Deadline: Ongoing
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is accepting applications from schools, local governments, and public or nonprofit camps to sponsor a site in the USDA Summer Food Service Program. Applicants will provide meals to low-income children and youth under 18 when school is not in session. Sponsors must be fully capable of managing a food service program, which includes locating sites, hiring and supervising staff/volunteers and arranging for meals to be prepared or delivered. For more information, click here. ​