The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living awarded the New Jersey Department of Human Services $1.646 million on October 1, 2025, under the Older Americans Act Title III, Part D, Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Services program (CFDA 93.043) to fund evidence-based programs that empower older adults to take control of their health by maintaining a healthy lifestyle through increased self-efficacy and self-management. The period of performance runs through September 30, 2027, with work performed in New Jersey.
The New Jersey Department of Human Services is distributing sub-awards to 21 New Jersey county governments to deliver preventive health and health promotion services to older adults. Sub-recipients include the counties of Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Salem, Somerset, Sussex, Union, and Warren. Sub-award dates range from March 9, 2026, through June 12, 2026. Each county sub-recipient will implement evidence-based disease prevention and health promotion programming designed to increase older adults' self-management capacity and healthy lifestyle maintenance, consistent with the federal program's focus on physical fitness, medication management, chronic disease self-management education, psychosocial behavioral health intervention, falls prevention, and related preventive health domains.
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