Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA PS17 1707
The Community Approaches to Reducing Sexually Transmitted Diseases (CARS) opportunity (CDC RFA PS17-1707) is a CDC cooperative agreement funded in FY 2017 through the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NCHHSTP. It is intended for organizations that can show real experience and capacity to work directly with communities using strong engagement approaches (including community-based participatory research) and to build multi-sector partnerships that can promote sexual health, strengthen overall community wellness, influence sexual health behaviors and practices, and reduce persistent disparities in sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The funding is framed around Healthy People 2020 priorities and is explicitly aimed at measurable reductions in key STI burdens that disproportionately affect certain communities, especially adolescents and young adults.
Programmatically, CARS focuses on reducing several specific infections and related outcomes. These include lowering the proportion of adolescents and young adults with Chlamydia trachomatis infection, reducing chlamydia rates among females ages 15 to 44, reducing gonorrhea rates, preventing sustained domestic transmission of primary and secondary syphilis, reducing congenital syphilis, and reducing gonorrhea (GC) incidence. It also targets a reduction in the proportion of young adults with genital herpes infection associated with herpes simplex virus type 2. The emphasis is not only on clinical outcomes, but also on changing the local conditions and systems that contribute to risk and unequal disease burden.
The funding announcement lays out five core focus areas that applicants are expected to implement in an integrated way. First is the use of community engagement methods to advance health equity, meaning communities are not treated as passive recipients but as partners who identify priorities and shape solutions. Second is identifying and implementing systems and environmental change strategies that both promote sexual health and support healthier behaviors, while also strengthening community-clinical linkages so that community-based efforts connect smoothly to testing, treatment, prevention services, and ongoing care. Third is the enhancement and long-term sustainability of partnerships across sectors, recognizing that STI disparities are influenced by factors that extend beyond health departments and clinics alone. Fourth is support for communication strategies that publicize STD program successes, increase awareness of disparities and sexual health issues, and help leverage additional resources for STI prevention and control. Fifth is evaluation, with an expectation that recipients will assess both how well the overall approach works and how effectively interventions are implemented in real-world settings.
The opportunity also specifies the kinds of measurable outcomes CDC expects to see. In the community engagement area, outcomes include active community participation through a Community Advisory Board (CAB), satisfaction with CAB processes, and a sense of shared or perceived power among CAB members rather than a top-down structure. Communities should identify priority social determinants of health affecting STI disparities, participate in designing interventions, and improve linkages and access to the populations most affected. In the systems and environmental strategies area, recipients are expected to identify existing clinical resources, implement and evaluate community-prioritized and community-designed interventions, and demonstrate sustainability over time. Programs are also expected to document positivity and treatment rates tied to community events and STD screening activities, reduce exposure to social disorder (with examples such as trash or lack of community cooperation), reduce risky sexual behavior, and ultimately reduce STI disparities. For multi-sector partnerships, success is defined by forming new partnerships and stabilizing existing ones, then using partner resources and influence to carry out, evaluate, and sustain community-designed interventions. For communication, expected outcomes include increased awareness of STI disparities and sexual health topics through mixed communication channels, including social media, along with increased access to and use of community health resources, support services, and educational opportunities among the groups most impacted by disparities, using communication approaches that are effective for health equity and sexual health promotion.
Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity using a cooperative agreement structure, which typically implies substantial federal involvement and collaboration during the project period rather than a hands-off grant. Eligibility is listed as unrestricted (open to any type of entity), subject to any clarifications in the official eligibility text. The award ceiling is $312,500, and CDC anticipated making about four awards. The funding opportunity was created March 30, 2017, with an original application deadline of May 2, 2017, and electronic submissions due by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. The planned start date for the project was September 30, 2017, and this FOA replaced the earlier FOA PS14-1406, signaling CDCs intention to continue and refine a community-driven, partnership-based model for reducing STIs and related inequities.Apply for CDC RFA PS17 1707
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - NCHHSTP in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Community Approaches to Reducing Sexually Transmitted Diseases (CARS)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.978.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 30, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 02, 2017 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 500 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $312,500.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 4 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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