Cooperative Agreement 90FPSG0056

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living awarded a $549,327 cooperative agreement to Petersburg Medical Center under the Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Programs Financed Solely by Prevention and Public Health Funds (PPHF) program. The four-year award will support the Petersburg Empowering Falls Prevention initiative from May 2023 through April 2027. The Petersburg Empowering Falls Prevention program will deliver a new evidence-based community fall...

The Young Men's Christian Association of the Suncoast, Inc. was awarded a $517,597 cooperative agreement from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living under the Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Programs Financed Solely by Prevention and Public Health Funds (PPHF) program. The award period is from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2025. Under this cooperative agreement, the YMCA of the Suncoast will deliver evidence-based falls prevention programs to older adults in...

The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) has been awarded a $600,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living under the Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Programs Financed Solely by Prevention and Public Health Funds (CFDA 93.761) program. This four-year award, effective June 1, 2024 through May 31, 2028, will support the implementation and sustainability of evidence-based falls prevention programs for older adults and...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control awarded a $1,911,528 Cooperative Agreement under the Older Adults Home Modification Grant Program (CFDA 14.921) to the Land-0F-Sky Regional Council in Asheville, North Carolina. This grant will enable the awardee to deliver home modification services to over 1,900 low-income senior households in both urban and rural communities across the region. The program focuses on providing low-cost,...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control, awarded a $1,247,225 Cooperative Agreement under the Older Adults Home Modification Grant Program (CFDA 14.921) to the Western Piedmont Council of Governments (WPCOG), a non-profit organization based in Hickory, North Carolina. This 3-year grant, awarded on May 15, 2025, will enable WPCOG to deliver home modification services to over 1,900 low-income elderly homeowners in both urban and...

The Henderson County Department of Public Health (HCDPH), in partnership with Hope Coalition, has been awarded a $1,299,000 project grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and other Substances Use Program (CFDA 16.838). The grant, effective from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, will fund a comprehensive initiative to address the overdose crisis and impacts of illicit opioids, stimulants, and other...

This Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the federal Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program aims to improve long-term care (LTC) quality and safety for individuals living with dementia. With $449,999 in funding, the 3-year project starting September 2024 will implement and evaluate two decision support technology (DS tech) prototypes focused on fall prevention and staff burnout detection in LTC facilities. The...

The federal Project Grant award R43CE003634 for $794,410.00, awarded on September 30, 2024 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s Injury Prevention and Control Research and State and Community Based Programs (CFDA 93.136), supports the development of an augmented reality-based mobile phone technology platform for fall prevention among seniors living in subsidized housing. The awardee, Kinima, Inc., a woman-owned small business, is creating innovative computer vision and...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,003,667 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Older Adults Home Modification Grant Program (CFDA 14.921) will enable the Lucky Shoals Community Association, Inc., a non-profit organization in Tucker, Georgia, to deliver home modification services to over 1,900 low-income elderly homeowners. The goal of the program is to enable seniors to "age in place" by reducing fall risks, improving safety, and enhancing functional...

This Project Grant award of $192,041 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to develop a personalized, wearable-based fall risk analysis and detection system for the elderly. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Creating a personalized fall risk detection model using machine learning algorithms that incorporate an individual's real-world limb-core dynamics...