Office on Women’s Health Grant: Empowering HIV Prevention for Women in U.S. Virgin Islands

The Office on Women’s Health is offering a grant to enhance HIV prevention knowledge and reduce the risk of contracting HIV among women in the U.S. Virgin Islands, specifically on St. Thomas and St. Croix islands. The grant aims to increase community awareness, provide gender-specific prevention education, conduct outreach and health promotion, HIV counseling, testing, and medical care linkage. Grantees are required to develop a model plan, implement evidence-based prevention interventions, establish partnerships, evaluate performance, and develop a sustainability plan. Attendance at relevant conferences and submission of abstracts and a White Paper are also encouraged.

Opportunity ID: 169875

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General Information

Document Type::	Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number::	WH-HPP-12-002
Funding Opportunity Title::	FY12 HIV Prevention for Women Living in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Opportunity Category::	Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation::
Funding Instrument Type::
Category of Funding Activity::	Health
Category Explanation::
Expected Number of Awards::	2
Assistance Listings Number(s)::	93.015 — HIV Prevention Programs for Women
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement::	No
Version::	Synopsis 2
Posted Date::	May 09, 2012
Last Updated Date::	May 09, 2012
Original Closing Date for Applications::	Jun 11, 2012
Current Closing Date for Applications::	Jun 11, 2012
Archive Date::	Jul 11, 2012
Estimated Total Program Funding::
Award Ceiling::	$200,000
Award Floor::	$100,000

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants::

Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification)

Additional Information on Eligibility::

Eligible Applicants must meet all of the following criteria:

1. Applicant entity based in priority area: St. Croix and St. Thomas.
2. Organizations with a history of serving Black, Hispanic, and Caribbean women, rural women, poor women, and women living with HIV/AIDS or whose lifestyles place them at high risk for HIV/STD infection.
Eligible entities may include: non-profit community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, national organizations, colleges and universities, clinics and hospitals, research institutions, State and local government agencies, tribal government agencies and tribal/urban Indian organizations.

Additional Information

Agency Name::	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Description::	The purpose of this program is to provide accurate and comprehensive information on HIV/AIDS prevention AND healthy behaviors to maintain both mental and physical health for women living in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The program shall increase HIV prevention knowledge and reduce the risk of contracting HIV among women using gender specific multi-level interventions and approaches. OWH hopes to fulfill this purpose by providing funding to eligible organizations to enhance prevention and support activities to USVI women living on St. Thomas or St. Croix islands. The goals for this program are: ? To increase community wide awareness of HIV/STD prevalence and prevention; and? To provide gender specific prevention education to a minimum of 150 women and/or teenage girls in St. Thomas and 150 women and/or teenage girls in St. Croix.The objectives of the OWH program are:? To increase understanding and knowledge of HIV/AIDS and how to prevent infection;? To increase participant recognition of risk behaviors and increase understanding of self protective behaviors; ? To increase participant understanding of the importance of knowing one?s status; ? To increase voluntary HIV/STD testing among prevention education participants; and? To conduct outreach and health promotion in the USVI.In order to achieve the objectives of the program the grantee shall: (1) Review local/city/county/State data on HIV incidence among women populations, and explore challenges and trends, which enable risks and vulnerabilities of women living in rural and frontier Indian Country. Please reference and use data and other demographics from the U.S. Census, CDC surveillance reports, the National Center for Health Statistics, Quick Health Data on-Line, etc. (2) Develop a model plan to outreach to women living in the U. S. Virgin Islands and to facilitate group interventions to provide accurate HIV/STD prevention education and overall wellness. The model should demonstrate knowledge, understanding, and integration of the culture, language, and gender specific social determinants of health; (3) Identify and implement an evidence-based prevention intervention which addresses vulnerabilities and high risk behaviors in women, e.g., negotiating skills, assertiveness, relationship building, isolation and loneliness, social acceptability of concurrent partners, depression, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, substance use/abuse, childcare, transportation, confidentiality, family, coercion, poverty, illiteracy, financial dependency, and other dynamics that disproportionately impact women and girls; provide complete curricula, i.e. topics, content, facilitator?s guide, participant workbook, participant evaluation forms, and pre/post instruments. Describe the intervention format: number of sessions; session length, period of time over which the intervention will be given, etc. Describe training format, teaching methods and strategies proposed to deliver modules, e.g., interactive exercises, facilitated discussion, lectures, video/films, community peers, etc. De scribe retention strategies for participants enrolled in group intervention including use of incentives;(4) Coordinate HIV counseling and testing for women with unknown HIV status and link women who test HIV positive to medical care and other services; (5) Establish Memoranda of Understanding with local/State departments of health, social services, local small businesses, community and faith based organizations as partners to implement referral coordination for counseling, STD/HIV testing, well woman screenings, other social service needs, and logistical program support; (6) Conduct local evaluation of performance activities with indicators and metrics specified;(7) Submit a minimum of 2 abstracts to local, territorial and national conferences for presentations AND draft 1White Paper for presentation to OWH staff and partners. These should highlight lessons learned, best practices, and next steps directly related to efforts within this program. (8) Develop a sustainability plan to continue the program activities and community linkages beyond OWH funding and shall illustrate how program performance addressed community needs and the needs of women living in the U.S. Virgin Islands. (9) The grantee is encouraged to attend at least one national, regional, or State HIV/AIDS Conference (e.g., U.S. Conference on AIDS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National HIV Prevention Conference, etc.) to seek updates in HIV prevention strategies, therapies, and priority activities as advised by the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, CDC, Health Resources and Services Administration, and other public health experts.
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Version History

Version	Modification Description	Updated Date
Synopsis 2	Added Eligibility	May 09, 2012
Synopsis 1

Package Status

Below are CLOSED Opportunity Package(s) no longer available for this Funding Opportunity:

Package No: 1

Assistance Listings:	93.015
Competition ID:	WH-HPP-12-001-014378
Competition Title:	FY12 HIV Prevention for Women Living in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Opportunity Package ID:	PKG00121071
Opening Date:	May 09, 2012
Closing Date:	Jun 11, 2012
Agency Contact Information::	OASH Office of Women’s Health
Who Can Apply::	Organization Applicants
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