CE20-2003 DFC Competing Continuation NOFO__17_Feb_2020_FINAL.pdf

FY20 SUPPLEMENTAL NON-RESEARCH - EDIT VERSION

Part 1. Overview Information

A. Federal Agency Name:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) / Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease

Registry (ATSDR)

B. Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Title:

Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program-Competing Continuation

C. Announcement Type: Competing Continuation - Type 2

D. Agency Notice of Funding Opportunity Number:

CDC-RFA-CE20-2003

E. Assistance Listings (CFDA) Number:

93.276

F. Dates:

1. Due Date for Letter of Intent (LOI): N/A

2. Due Date for Applications: 04/03/2020, 11:59 p.m. U.S. Eastern Standard Time, at www.grants.gov.

3. Due Date for Informational Conference Call:

All applicants applying to the FY 2020 DFC Program are encouraged to watch the FY 2020 DFC Applicant Workshop Training Videos, which will be posted to the DFC website in late February or early March 2020. A link to the FY 2020 DFC Applicant Workshop Training Videos can be found at https://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/the-dfc-program/application-process/.

Additional Overview Content:

Executive Summary

The Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program was created by the Drug-Free Communities Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-20). The Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) are accepting applications for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program grants. The purpose of the DFC Support Program is to establish and strengthen collaboration to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent youth substance use. By statute, the DFC Support Program has two goals:

1) Establish and strengthen collaboration among communities, public and private non-profit agencies, as well as federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance abuse among youth (individuals 18 years of age and younger).

2) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, reduce substance abuse among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse.

a. Eligible Applicants: Limited Competition

b. NOFO Type: Grant

c. Approximate Number of Awards: 200

d. Total Period of Performance Funding: $125,000,000

e. Average One Year Award Amount: $125,000

f. Total Period of Performance Length: 5 years

g. Estimated Award Date: 09/30/2020

h. Cost Sharing and / or Matching Requirements. Yes. Cash or in-kind non-federal match is required.

This announcement is only for non-research activities supported by CDC. If research is proposed, the application will not be considered. For this purpose, research is defined at https

://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2007-title42-vol1/pdf/CFR-2007-title42-vol1-sec52-2.pdf.

Guidance on how CDC interprets the definition of research in the context of public health can be found at https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/regulations/45-cfr-46/index.html (See section 45 CFR 46.102(d)).

I. Notice of Funding Opportunity Description

Statutory Authority

Statutory Authority: Section 1531 of the DFC Act (21 USC § 1531(d)), which provides as follows:

The Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy may employ any necessary staff and may enter into contracts or agreements with national drug control agencies (of which CDC is one), including interagency agreements, to delegate authority for the execution of grants and for such other activities necessary to carry out the Drug-Free Communities Support Program.

AND

Section 280b-0 of the PHS Act (42 USC § 280b-0(b)(1-2)), which provides as follows:

The Secretary, through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is authorized to enter into agreements between the Service and public and private community health agencies which provide for cooperative planning of activities to deal with problems relating to prevention and control of injuries. The Secretary may work in cooperation with other federal agencies, and with public and nonprofit private entities, to promote activities regarding the prevention and control of injuries.

Background

Overview

Drug overdose deaths in the United States increased by 9.6% per year from 2016 to 2017. Of the

70,237 drug overdose deaths in 2017, 2 out of 3 involved an opioid. Opioid overdose deaths have increased fivefold from 1999-2016. Nonfatal opioid overdoses continue to rise as well;

emergency department data on opioid overdoses show a 4% increase in visits involving opioid overdoses from January 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019 that impacted all U.S. regions, age groups, and sexes.

While the opioid epidemic worsens in scope and magnitude, it is also becoming more complex.

The increase in opioid overdose deaths involve three distinct, but interrelated trends: a 15-year increase in overdose deaths involving prescription opioid pain relievers, a surge in heroin deaths starting in 2010, and a significant increase in deaths involving illicitly-manufactured fentanyl and fentanyl analogs since 2013. Additionally, from 2015 to 2016, rate increases were observed in deaths involving cocaine and psychostimulants with abuse potential, with synthetic opioids (e.g., fentanyl) increasingly being involved in these deaths and used with other opioids, other illicit drugs, benzodiazepines, and alcohol.

Alcohol is the most commonly used and abused drug among youth in the United States. Excessive drinking is responsible for more than 4,300 deaths among underage youth each year and is associated with many other health risk behaviors such as smoking. A third (30%) of all high school students in the United States reported past-month alcohol consumption in 2017, and of those students, 14% reported past-month binge drinking (consuming 5 or more drinks in a row).

Reducing underage drinking will require community-based efforts to monitor activities of youth and decrease youth access to alcohol.

Preventing tobacco product use among youth is critical to ending the tobacco epidemic in the

United States. In 2019, about 12 of every 100 middle school students (12.5%) and about 31 of every 100 high school students (31.2%) reported current use of a tobacco product. Each day in the

United States about 1,600 youth under 18 years of age smoke their first cigarette and nearly 200 youth under 18 years of age become daily cigarette smokers. Similar to the opioid epidemic, the tobacco epidemic has also become more complex overtime and use among youth now involves multiple tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, and hookah. Youth who use multiple tobacco products are at higher risk for developing nicotine dependence and might be more likely to continue using tobacco into adulthood.

The complex and changing nature of substance use and abuse among youth (individuals 18 years of age and younger), highlights the need for an interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and cohesive public health approach. Communities need the tools and resources to use the data collected by federal, state, local, and tribal governments to inform and target their substance abuse prevention and response efforts among youth. This funding opportunity will continue work focused on 1) establishing and strengthening collaborations to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance abuse among youth, and 2) reducing substance abuse among youth and, over time, reducing substance abuse among adults.

Purpose

The purpose of the DFC Support Program is to establish and strengthen collaborations to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance use among youth by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse.

Healthy People 2030

This funding opportunity supports Healthy People 2030 topic areas of injury and violence prevention, and substance abuse. For specific objectives within these topic areas, please consult https://www.healthypeople.gov.

Other National Public Health Priorities and Strategies

This NOFO supports the following public health priorities and strategies:

• HHS Five-Point Opioid Strategy (https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/hhs-response/index.html)

• President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis

Recommendations (https://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/presidents-commission/)

• President Donald J. Trump’s Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and

Demand (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trumps-initiative-stop-opioid-abuse-reduce-drug-supply-demand-2/)

• The National Prevention Council’s National Prevention Strategy – America’s Plan for

Better Health (Tobacco-Free Living)

(http://www.ldh.la.gov/assets/docs/GovCouncil/MinHealth/NationalPreventionStrategyJun e2011.pdf)

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Strategic Plan (Objective 2.1:

Empower people to make informed choices for healthier living)

(https://www.hhs.gov/about/strategic-plan/overview/index.html#strategic-plan)

Relevant Work

This funding opportunity builds upon past DFC programs focused on substance abuse prevention:

• Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program-New (SP-19-005)

• Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program-Competing Continuation (SP-19-006)

• Drug Free Communities Mentoring Program (SP-18-004)

• Community-Based Coalition Enhancements Grants to Address Local Drug Crises (SP-18-

001)

• National Community Anti-Drug Coalition Institute (NCI) (DFC-1)

See also: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/the-dfc-program/overview/.

Program Implementation

Recipient Activities

Outcomes

A series of short-term and intermediate outcomes are expected to be achieved as a result of recipient efforts by the end of the period of performance. The short-term and intermediate outcomes should be tailored to the work plan (aka 12-Month Action Plan) of strategies selected.

Short-term Outcomes:

• Identified local youth substance use

• Identified community conditions that contribute to youth substance use

• Increased collaborations among communities, public and private non-profit agencies to build capacity to address youth substance use

• Increased collaborations with federal, state, local, and tribal governments to build capacity to change the conditions

• Increased ability to respond to and prevent youth substance use

Intermediate Outcomes:

• Addressed factors in a community that increase the risk of youth substance use

• Increased the promotion of factors that minimize the risk of youth substance use

• Improved systems and/or processes

• Decreased the ease, ability, and opportunity for target population to access substances

• Changed the culture and context within which decisions about substance use are made

Strategies and Activities

Recipients are expected to work with leaders in their communities to identify and address local youth substance use problems and create sustainable community-level change through the use of evidence-based prevention strategies and the use of the Seven Strategies for Community Level Change.

Recipients are expected to choose strategies that will lead to community-level change. Such strategies seek to: (1) limit access to substances; (2) change the culture and context within which decisions about substance use are made; and/or (3) shift the consequences associated with youth substance use. Evidence exists that well-conceived and implemented policies at the local, state, and national levels can reduce community-level alcohol, tobacco, and other drug problems.

The DFC Support Program requires that coalitions develop and implement a comprehensive 12- Month Action Plan to prevent youth substance use. A comprehensive 12-Month Action Plan will include an appropriate mixture of all seven strategies. Recipients are not required to name the seven strategies, identified below, in their 12-Month Action Plan, but should use them as a framework for ensuring a comprehensive plan. More details regarding the 12-Month Action Plan requirements can be found in the Work Plan section of this NOFO.

Seven Strategies for Community Level Change

The Seven Strategies for Community Level Change, include efforts that affect individuals as well as an entire community.

1. Provide Information: Educational presentations, workshops or seminars, and data or media presentations (e.g., Public Service Announcements (PSAs), brochures, town halls, forums, web communications).

2. Enhance Skills: Workshops, seminars, or activities designed to increase the skills of participants, members, and staff (e.g., training and technical assistance, parenting classes, strategic planning retreats, model programs in schools).

3. Provide Support: Creating opportunities for participation in activities that reduce risk or enhance protection (e.g., alternative activities, mentoring, referrals for service, support groups, youth clubs).

4. Enhance Access/Reduce Barriers: Improving systems/processes to increase the ease, ability, and opportunity to utilize those systems and services (e.g., assuring transportation, housing, education, safety, and cultural sensitivity) in prevention initiatives. Reduce Access/Enhance Barriers: Improving systems/processes to decrease the ease, ability, and opportunity for youth to access substances (e.g., raising the price of single-serve cans of alcohol, implementing retail alcohol/tobacco compliance checks).

5. Change Consequences: Increasing or decreasing the probability of a behavior

(incentives/disincentives) by altering the consequences for performing that behavior (e.g., supporting DUI checkpoints, party patrols, and recognition programs for merchants who pass compliance checks; publicizing businesses non-compliant with local ordinances).

6. Change Physical Design: Changing the physical design of the environment to reduce risk or enhance protection (e.g., re-routing foot/car traffic, adjusting park hours, alcohol/tobacco outlet density). NOTE: DFC federal funds cannot support landscape and lighting projects.

As such, costs for these projects cannot be used as match.

7. Modify/Change Policies: Change in written procedures, by-laws, proclamations, rules, or laws, to the extent applicable law and policies allow (e.g., workplace initiatives, law enforcement procedures and practices, public policy actions, systems change).

NOTE: As per both HHS/CDC and ONDCP guidelines, and applicable Anti-Lobbying provisions, impermissible lobbying with federal dollars is not permitted. Additionally, such costs for impermissible lobbying cannot be used as match.

For more information on the Seven Strategies for Community Change, visit http://www.cadca.org/resources/coalition-impact-environmental-prevention-strategies

In addition to using the Seven Strategies for Community Change, DFC funded coalitions are expected to utilize SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) as the planning model to develop long-range plans. The SPF is a five-step evidence-based process for community planning and decision-making. Cultural competence and sustainability should be considered throughout all five steps of the process, which includes:

1. Assessment: Identify local youth substance use problems and the community conditions that contribute to the specific identified issues.

2. Capacity: Mobilize/build capacity to change the conditions and address the youth substance use problems.

3. Planning: Develop a logic model, comprehensive 12-month Action Plan, and multi-year

Strategic Plan.

4. Implementation: Implement action and strategic plans with multiple objectives, strategies, and activities.

5. Evaluation: Monitor, sustain, improve, or replace prevention activities, efforts, and strategies.

For more information on the SPF, visit https://www.cadca.org/sites/default/files/OverviewSPF.pdf

Community coalitions are strongly encouraged to use the National Coalition Institute’s (NCI) coalition logic model to address their local youth substance use problems, its related root causes and local conditions. For more information on the DFC coalition logic model, visit https://www.cadca.org/sites/default/files/cadca_logic_model.pptx

Collaborations

a. With other CDC programs and CDC-funded organizations:

Recipients are encouraged to collaborate, as appropriate, with CDC programs outside of NCIPC that are implementing evidence-based prevention strategies that identify and address local youth substance use problems and creating community-level changes throughout the use of the strategies identified in the Strategies and Activities Section of this NOFO.

Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) or Memorandums of Agreement (MOA) are not

b. With organizations not funded by CDC:

Recipients are encouraged to collaborate with organizations that have a role in conducting the proposed activities and achieving the NOFO outcomes. In particular, recipients receiving DFC funds are expected to work with leaders in their communities and the National Coalition Institute

(NCI) to identify and address local youth substance use problems and create sustainable community-level change through the use of evidence based prevention strategies and use the Seven

Strategies for Community Level Change (refer to Strategies and Activities Section of this NOFO).

Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) or Memorandums of Agreement (MOAs) are not

Target Populations

Applicants are expected to define the communities they propose to serve. The DFC Support Program does not prescribe the demographics or geographic location of DFC funded coalitions.

Applicants may use various geographic boundaries including neighborhoods, census tracts, zip codes, and school districts, as well as townships, counties, or parish lines, among others, to define their community. Applicants should be realistic about the size and population of the area in which the coalition will have the ability to create change. For example, choosing a community that is too large may be problematic due to inclusion of neighborhoods that have significantly different problems to be addressed.

The DFC Support Program does not make funding decisions based on geographic boundaries (e.g., number of grants within states/towns/cities). Applicants should consider that adjacent neighborhoods/towns/cities with DFC funded coalitions operating in different areas are encouraged. However, multiple DFC recipients may not serve the same zip code(s) unless there is written evidence of cooperation between the overlapping coalitions (see Requirement 9 in Table 2 within Section C. Eligibility Information of this NOFO for information on written evidence of cooperation).

Health Disparities

As described in previous sections of this funding opportunity, applicants should pay particular attention to youth (18 years of age or younger) and with an emphasis on promoting health equity in their community.

Funding Strategy

Applications submitted by eligible coalitions that demonstrate they meet all requirements will then be scored through a merit review process according to the evaluation criteria described in Section

E. Upon full completion of the statutory eligibility review process and review of final scores, ONDCP begins funding with the highest scoring application until all funds are exhausted. ONDCP may also take into consideration factors relating to rural, American Indian/Alaska Native, and economically disadvantaged communities.

CDC Evaluation and Performance Measurement Strategy

Evaluation and Performance Measurement are tools used to: 1) help demonstrate achievement of program outcomes; 2) build a stronger evidence base for specific program interventions; 3) clarify applicability of the evidence base to different populations, settings, and context, and 4) drive continuous program improvement. Evaluation and performance measurement can also determine whether program strategies are scalable and effective at reaching the target or intended populations.

Recipients are required to participate in the DFC National Cross-Site Evaluation. The DFC National Cross-Site Evaluation is intended to measure the effectiveness of the DFC Support Program in reducing youth substance use. Recipients are required to provide data every two years on the following core measures for alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and prescription drugs for three grades (6th-12th):

1. Past 30–day use

2. Perception of risk or harm

3. Perception of parental disapproval of use

4. Perception of peer disapproval of use

It is recommended that data be collected for at least one middle school and one high school grade.

Applicants are not required at the time of application to be in compliance with the DFC National Cross-Site Evaluation Requirements. However, recipients will be required to comply with the DFC National Cross-Site Evaluation Requirements once awarded a DFC grant. Prior to submitting core measures data, coalitions are required to submit any survey(s) used to collect these data for review and approval through the DFC Me (Management and Evaluation) system. The recipient will have two years from the time of award to report its first complete set of core measure data.

It will be the responsibility of the recipient to know the National Cross-Site Evaluation reporting schedule. An inability to supply the previously mentioned core measures in the specific increment (every two years) for the substances named from the grades required means a recipient is out of compliance with the Award Terms and Conditions. Failure to comply with the Terms and

Conditions of the DFC grant award may result in suspension or termination of the award.

Data Management Plan

Since recipients are required to participate in the DFC National Cross-Site Evaluation, applicants will need to supply a preliminary draft or outline of a Data Management Plan (DMP) as part of the FY 2020 DFC application.

The DMP should provide a description of:

• The data that will be produced using these NOFO funds;

• How access will be provided to the data and how the data will be shared (including how privacy, confidentiality, security, intellectual property, and other rights will be protected)

• Any plans to share data with CDC;

• Data standards ensuring the released data have documentation describing methods of collection, what the data represent, and data limitations; and

• Archival and long-term data preservation plans or why this preservation and access are not needed.

Applicants may contact the current DFC Evaluation Team (dfc_evaluators@icf.com) for assistance in gathering the necessary information as it relates to the DFC National Cross-Site Evaluation.

The DMP may be submitted as a checklist, paragraph, or other format, as part of the Project

Narrative. CDC does not have a standard DMP template or checklist due to Paperwork Reduction

Act requirements. However, below are DMP examples that can assist applicants in the development of the DMP:

Examples are provided here to assist in the development of the Data Management Plan.

• University of California: http://dmp.cdlib.org/

• U.S. Geological Society: http://www.usgs.gov/datamanagement/plan/dmplans.php

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research:

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/datamanagement/dmp/plan.html

Recipients will be required to submit a more detailed DMP within the first 6 months of award, as described in the Reporting Section of this NOFO (See CDC DMP policy https://www.cdc.gov/grant/additionalrequirments/ar-25.html). These plans should be developed by the recipient with support from CDC as part of the first-year project activities and should build on elements stated in the initial DMP. The plan may be refined and adjusted as needed each year as part of the annual performance report (APR) to ensure its accuracy throughout the lifecycle of the project.

Organizational Capacity of Recipients to Implement the Approach

The recipient shall have staff with skills in these topic areas:

• Non-research program administration: program planning, program evaluation, performance monitoring, financial management and reporting, budget management and administration, personnel management and project management.

NOTE: Regarding financial management, applicants are required to demonstrate that they have a financial management system that will allow for proper funds management and segregation of funds by program and meet the requirements as stated in the Uniform

Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for HHS Awards found at https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-indx?node=pt45.1.75#se45.1.75_1302 (45 CFR

75.302). The financial system should permit the preparation of reports required by general and program-specific terms and conditions; and the tracing of funds to a level of expenditure adequate to establish that such funds have been used according to the federal statutes, regulations, and the terms and conditions of the federal award.

To demonstrate proficiency in these topic areas, applicants must submit resumes/CVs for positions current filled (no more than 2 pages in length) and position descriptions for vacant positions (no more than 1 page in length) for key personnel, including the Program Director/Principal

Investigator (PD/PI) and Project Coordinator. This should be named “Attachment 7 – Key

Personnel-Resumes-CVs-PDs” respectively and uploaded to www.grants.gov.

A curricula vitae may be used in lieu of a resume for positions currently filled if it contains all of the items of information below:

• Name of key personnel

• Education background: School(s), location, dates attended, degrees earned (specify year), major field of study

• Professional experience

• Honors received and dates

• Recent relevant publications

• Other sources of support

The position description is only required for key personnel positions that are not filled and should include:

• Title of key personnel position;

• Brief description of duties and responsibilities; and

• 1-2 sentences on how the applicant plans to fill the position, including expected timeframe.

Per statute, the coalition must contain one representative from each of the 12 sectors:

• Youth (18 or younger)

• Parent

• Business

• Media

• School

• Youth-serving organization

• Law enforcement

• Religious/Fraternal organization

• Civic/Volunteer groups (i.e., local organizations committed to volunteering, not a coalition member designated as a “volunteer”)

• Healthcare professional or organization (i.e., primary care, hospitals, etc.)

• State, local, or tribal governmental agency with expertise in the field of substance abuse

(including, if applicable, the state agency with primary authority for substance abuse)

• Other organization involved in reducing substance abuse

Work Plan

Applicants must prepare a detailed work plan for the first year of the award (aka 12-Month Action

Plan) and a high-level plan for subsequent years. Applicant must submit a 12-Month Action Plan using the Template provided below in Table 1.

The work plan (aka 12-Month Action Plan) must, at a minimum, include:

• Period of performance;

• Activities that are in alignment with the proposed objectives and program strategies; and

• Objectives that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-bound (see

Glossary section within this NOFO for further definition of each).

CDC will provide feedback and technical assistance to recipients to finalize the work plan

(aka 12-Month Action Plan) post-award.

The following work plan (aka 12-Month Action Plan) table should be completed for each goal of the DFC program. If a particular activity leads to multiple goals or objectives, it should be described under each goal and/or objective.

Table 1. 12-Month Action Plan (September 30, 2020 – September 29, 2021)

DFC Goal One: Increase community collaboration

Objective 1: Provide a SMART objective

Strategy 1: Provide specific strategy

Activity Who is Responsible? By When?

Strategy 2: Provide specific strategy

DFC Goal Two: Reduce Substance Abuse

Objective 1: Provide a SMART objective

Strategy 1: Provide specific strategy

Strategy 2: Provide specific strategy

CDC Activities

CDC Monitoring and Accountability Approach

Monitoring activities include routine and ongoing communication between CDC and DFC recipients, site visits, and recipient reporting [including work plans (aka 12-Month Action Plan), performance, and financial reporting]. Consistent with applicable grants regulations and policies, CDC expects the following to be included in post-award monitoring for grants and cooperative agreements:

• Tracking recipient progress in achieving the desired outcomes.

• Ensuring the adequacy of recipient systems that underlie and generate data reports.

• Creating an environment that fosters integrity in program performance and results.

Monitoring may also include the following activities deemed necessary to monitor the award:

• Ensuring that work plans (12-Month Action Plans) are feasible based on the budget and consistent with the intent of the award.

• Ensuring that recipients are performing at a sufficient level to achieve outcomes within stated timeframes.

• Working with recipients on adjusting the work plan (12-Month Action Plan) based on achievement of outcomes, evaluation results and changing budgets.

• Monitoring performance measures (both programmatic and financial) to assure satisfactory performance levels.

Monitoring and reporting activities that assist grants management staff (e.g., grants management officers and specialists, and project officers) in the identification, notification, and management of high-risk recipients.

II. Award Information

1. Funding Instrument Type: Grant

2. Award Mechanism: HD4

3. Fiscal Year: 2020

4. Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding: $25,000,000

5. Approximate Period of Performance Funding: $125,000,000

This amount is subject to the availability of funds.

Estimated Total Funding: $125,000,000

6. Approximate Period of Performance Length: 5 years

7. Expected Number of Awards: 200

8. Approximate Average Award: $125,000 Per Budget Period

Proposed budgets must not exceed $125,000 in total costs (direct and indirect) in any year of the proposed project. Annual continuation awards will depend on the availability of funds, recipient progress in meeting project goals and objectives, timely submission of the required data and reports, and compliance with all grant award Terms and Conditions. Failure to comply with the Terms and Conditions of the award may result in suspension or termination of the award.

9. Award Ceiling: $125,000 Per Recipient

This amount is subject to the availability of funds.

10. Award Floor: $0 Per Recipient

11. Estimated Award Date: 09/30/2020

12. Budget Period Length: 12 months

Throughout the project period, CDC will continue the award based on the availability of funds, the evidence of satisfactory progress by the recipient (as documented in required reports), and the determination that continued funding is in the best interest of the federal government. The total number of years for which federal support has been approved (project period) will be shown in the “Notice of Award.” This information does not constitute a commitment by the federal government to fund the entire period. The total period of performance comprises the initial competitive segment and any subsequent non-competitive continuation award(s).

13. Direct Assistance: N/A

Direct Assistance (DA) is not available through this NOFO.

III. Eligibility Information

Eligible Applicants

Eligibility Category: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education

Others (see text field entitled

"Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Additional Eligibility Category:

Government Organizations serving as Bona fide Agents:

State governments

County governments

City or township governments

Territorial governments

Special district governments

Independent school districts

State controlled institutions of higher education American Indian or Alaska Native tribal governments (federally recognized or state-recognized)

Non-government Organizations serving as Bona fide Agents:

Public institutions of higher education

Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the

IRS, other than institutions of higher education

Private institutions of higher education

Professional associations

Voluntary organizations

Faith-based organizations

American Indian or Alaska native tribally designated organizations

Extra Additional Information on Eligibility

Eligible applicants are community-based coalitions addressing youth substance use that have previously received a DFC grant but have experienced a lapse in funding or have concluded the first five-year funding cycle and are applying for a second five-year funding cycle. For the purposes of this NOFO and the DFC Support Program, a coalition is defined as a community-based formal arrangement for cooperation and collaboration among groups or sectors of a community in which each group retains its identity, but all agree to work together toward a common goal of building a safe, healthy, and drug-free community. Statutory Eligibility Requirements, written into the DFC Act, are inherent in the language of the DFC Support Program. Applicants should refer to Table 2: Statutory Eligibility Requirements, which contains a summary of the minimum documentation applicants must provide to meet these criteria. The table also specifies evidence required and where to place it in the application (e.g., as an attachment, in the Project Narrative or in the Budget Narrative).

Failure to meet any single statutory eligibility requirement will cause the application to be deemed ineligible; in such case it will not move forward to merit review. Should your application fail to meet the eligibility requirements, the person listed as the Business Official on the Application for Federal Assistance (SF-424) will receive a notification stating why the application was deemed ineligible. No additional information may be added to an application after the application deadline. Final authority lies with the DFC Administrator to determine the eligibility of an application.

NOTE: Coalitions that have already received 10 years of DFC funding are not eligible to apply for this grant.

All DFC applications will be jointly screened by ONDCP and CDC to determine whether an applicant meets all the DFC Support Program Statutory Eligibility Requirements identified in Table 1. Applications submitted by eligible coalitions that demonstrate they meet all requirements will then be scored through a merit review process according to the evaluation criteria described in Section E. Review and Selection Process of this NOFO. Each year, DFC recipients must demonstrate compliance with all of the Statutory Eligibility Requirements to be considered for continuation funding.

A DFC legal applicant (an organization applying on behalf of a coalition, the coalition, or the applicant coalition) must reside within the United States and/or the U.S. territories. The intent of the DFC Support Program is to fund coalition activities in the United States and does not authorize the funding of organizations or activities outside the United States.

Table 2: Statutory Eligibility Requirements

Eligibility Requirement Item Evidence Required and

Where to Document

Requirement 1: 12 Sectors Evidence Required

The coalition must consist of one or more representatives from each of the following required 12 sectors:

A Coalition Involvement Agreement

(CIA) for each of the 12 sector members.

Where to Document

• Youth (18 or younger)

• Parent

• Business

• Media

• School

• Youth-serving organization

• Law enforcement

• Religious/Fraternal organization

• Civic/Volunteer groups (i.e., local organizations committed to volunteering, not a coalition member designated as a “volunteer”)

• Healthcare professional or organization (i.e., primary care, hospitals, etc.)

• State, local, or tribal governmental agency with expertise in the field of substance abuse

(including, if applicable, the state agency with primary authority for substance abuse)

• Other organization involved in reducing substance abuse 21 U.S.C. 1532(a)(2)(c)

An individual who is a member of the coalition may serve on the coalition as a representative of not more than one sector category.

21 U.S.C. 1532(a)(2)(c)

Where to Document: Attachment 1:

12 CIAs

For Additional information, please refer to Section C. Eligibility

Information and Attachment 1.

Note: Coalition members cannot represent more than one sector category and paid staff (i.e., Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI) and Project Coordinator) cannot serve as sector representatives. Doing so will deem an application ineligible and the application will not proceed to peer review.

Requirement 2: Six Month Existence Evidence Required

The coalition must demonstrate that members have worked together on substance abuse reduction initiatives for a period of not less than 6 months at the time of submission of the application, acting through entities such as task forces, subcommittees, or community boards.

(21 USC 1531 §1032 (a)(3)(A))

The coalition must also demonstrate substantial participation from volunteer leaders in the community.

(21 USC 1531 §1032 (a)(3)(B))

Where to Document:

- Attachment 2 – Coalition minutes from one meeting that took place between January 2019 and the deadline for submission of this application.

- Attachment 8 – General Applicant

Information.

refer to Attachment 2 and

Attachment 8.

Requirement 3: Mission Statement Evidence Required

The coalition must have as its principal mission the reduction of youth substance use, which, at a

Where to Document:

- Project Narrative, Where to Document minimum, includes the use and abuse of drugs in a comprehensive and long-term manner, with a primary focus on youth in the community.

(21 USC 1531 §1032 (a)(4)(A) refer to the Project Narrative Section in this NOFO.

Requirement 4: Multiple Drugs of Abuse Evidence Required

The coalition must have developed a 12-Month

Action Plan to reduce substance use among youth which targets multiple drugs of abuse.

Substances may include, but are not limited to, narcotics, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, inhalants, marijuana, alcohol, and tobacco, where youth use is prohibited by federal, state, or local law.

(21 USC 1531 §1032 (a)(4)(D))

12-Month Action Plan that identifies two drugs of use to be addressed by the coalition.

- Project Narrative, Approach

Requirement 5: DFC National Evaluation

Requirement

Evidence Required

The coalition must establish a system to measure and report outcomes, established and approved by the DFC Administrator, to the federal government.

21 U.S.C. 1532(a)(6)(a)

Applicants are not required at the time of application to be in compliance with the

DFC National Cross-Site Evaluation

Requirements.

If awarded a grant, the coalition will have two years from the time of award to report its first complete set of core measure data.

- Project Narrative, Evaluation and Performance Measurement refer to Performance and

Evaluation Measurement Section of this NOFO.

Requirement 6: Entity Eligible to Receive

Federal Grants

Evidence Required

The applicant must demonstrate that the coalition is an ongoing concern by demonstrating that the coalition is a non-profit organization or has made arrangements with a legal entity that is

Statement of Legal Eligibility.

- Attachment 3 –Signed

Where to Document eligible to receive federal grants.

(21 USC 1531 §1032 (a)(5)(A))

Organizations eligible to receive federal funds as DFC grant recipients must be legally recognized domestic public or private nonprofit entities. For example, state and local governments, federally recognized tribes, state recognized tribes, urban Indian organizations (as defined in P.L. 94-437, as amended), public or private universities and colleges, professional associations, voluntary organizations, self-help groups, consumer and provider services-oriented constituency groups, community- and faith-based organizations, and tribal organizations.

Assurance of Legal Eligibility or

Memorandum of Understanding

(MOU) between the applicant coalition and legal applicant/grant award recipient.

refer to Section C. Eligibility

Information and Attachment 3.

Requirement 7: Substantial Support from Non-

Federal Sources

Evidence Required

The coalition must have a strategy to solicit substantial financial support from non-federal sources to ensure that the coalition is self- sustaining.

(21 USC 1531 §1032 (a)(5)(C)) & (21 USC 1531 §1032 (b)(1)(A)(i))

Budget narrative which describes matching funds.

- SF-424, Section 18

- SF-424A

- Budget Narrative refer to the Budget Narrative and Cost Sharing or Matching Sections of this NOFO.

Requirement 8: Federal Request Evidence Required

The applicant must not request more than $125,000 in federal funds per year.

(PL 109-469 §803)

The budget may not exceed $125,000/year.

- SF-424, Section 18

- SF-424A

- Budget Narrative refer to Part I. Overview, Section B.

Award Information, and the Budget

Narrative Section of this NOFO.

Where to Document

Requirement 9: Zip Code Overlap Evidence Required

Two DFC-funded coalitions may not serve the same zip code(s) unless both coalitions have clearly described their plan for collaboration in their application and each coalition has independently met the eligibility requirements.

(21 USC 1531 §1032 (a)(5)(C))

An applicant that proposes to serve a geographical area which overlaps with a community served by other applicant coalitions or existing DFC coalitions must provide a Letter of Mutual Cooperation between these coalitions acknowledging the geographical overlap and their efforts to collaborate.

Where to Document:

- Attachment 4 – Letter(s) of

Mutual Cooperation, signed by both coalitions, or statement that there is no overlap between the applicant and other coalitions.

- Attachment 8 – General Applicant Information.

refer to Target Populations Section of this NOFO and Attachment 8.

Requirement 10: One grant at a time Evidence Required

Grant recipients may be awarded only one grant at a time through the DFC Support Program.

Applicants must sign and submit the Assurance of One DFC Grant at a Time.

- Attachment 5 –Assurance of One

DFC Grant at a Time.

refer to Attachment 5.

Requirement 11: No more than 10 years of DFC funding

Evidence Required

In order to receive a DFC grant, coalitions may not have received 10 years of DFC funding. Coalitions who received funding for the first grant period (5 years) are eligible to apply for an additional 5 years of funding.

Applicants must sign the Assurance of DFC 10-Year Funding Limit.

- Attachment 6 – Assurance of DFC

10-Year Funding Limit.

For Additional information, Where to Document please refer to Attachment 6.

Required Registrations

An organization must be registered at the three following locations before it can submit an application for funding at www.grants.gov.

a. Data Universal Numbering System:

All applicant organizations must obtain a Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number. A DUNS number is a unique nine-digit identification number provided by Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). It will be used as the Universal Identifier when applying for federal awards or cooperative agreements.

The applicant organization may request a DUNS number by telephone at 1-866-705-5711 (toll free) or Internet at http://fedgov.dnb.com/webform/displayHomePage.do. The DUNS number will be provided at no charge.

If funds are awarded to an applicant organization that includes sub- recipients, those sub-recipients must provide their DUNS numbers before accepting any funds.

b. System for Award Management (SAM):

The SAM is the primary registrant database for the federal government and the repository into which an entity must submit information required to conduct business as a recipient. All applicant organizations must register with SAM, and will be assigned a SAM number. All information relevant to the SAM number must be current at all times during which the applicant has an application under consideration for funding by CDC. If an award is made, the SAM information must be maintained until a final financial report is submitted or the final payment is received, whichever is later. The SAM registration process usually requires not more than five business days, and registration must be renewed annually. Additional information about registration procedures may be found at www.SAM.gov.

c. Grants.gov:

The first step in submitting an application online is registering your organization through www.grants.gov, the official HHS E-grant website. Registration information is located at the "Applicant Registration" option at www.grants.gov.

All applicant organizations must register with www.grants.gov. The one-time registration process usually takes not more than five days to complete. Applicants must start the registration process as early as possible.

Step System Requirements Duration Follow Up

1 Data Universal Number System

(DUNS)

1. Click on http://fedgov.dnb.com/webform

2. Select Begin DUNS search/request process

3. Select your country or territory and follow the instructions to obtain your DUNS 9-digit #

4. Request appropriate staff member(s) to obtain DUNS number, verify & update information under DUNS number

1-2 Business Days

To confirm that you have been issued a new DUNS number check online at (http://fedgov.dnb .com/webform) or call 1-866-705-

2 System for Award Management

(SAM)

formerly Central Contractor Registration

(CCR)

1. Retrieve organizations DUNS number

2. Go to www.sam.gov and designate an E-Biz POC (not CCR username will not work in SAM and you will need to have an active SAM account before you can register on grants.gov)

3-5 Business Days but up to 2 weeks and must be renewed once a year

For SAM Customer Service Contact https://fsd.gov/fsd -gov/home.do Calls: 866-606-

3 Grants.gov 1. Set up an individual account in Grants.gov using organization new DUNS number to become an authorized organization representative (AOR)

2. Once the account is set up the E-BIZ POC will be notified via email

3. Log into grants.gov using the password the E-BIZ POC received and create new password

4. This authorizes the AOR to submit applications on behalf of the organization

Same day but can take 8 weeks to be fully registered and approved in the system (note, applicants

MUST

obtain a

DUNS

number and SAM account before applying on grants.gov)

Register early!

Log into grants.gov and check AOR status until it shows you have been approved

Cost Sharing or Matching

Cost Sharing / Matching Requirement: Yes The DFC authorizing legislation requires recipients to demonstrate that they have non-federal matching funds (“match”) from non-federal sources equivalent to or greater than federal funds requested from the DFC Support Program. Applicants must itemize the match separately in the budget and explain the match separately in the Budget Narrative. CDC budget preparation guidelines can be found at https://www.cdc.gov/grants/documents/Budget-Preparation- Guidance.pdf. Applicants in their first cycle of DFC funding (Year One – Year Five), and those in Year Six, are required to have 100 percent match (1:1) from non-federal sources. Beginning in Year Seven, the percentage increases. The table below indicates the percentage of match required for DFC grant recipients in each year of the grant.

Table 3: Percentage of Match

Year of Funding Requested Matching Requirement

1-6 100%

7-8 125%

9-10 150%

Cash or in-kind support may be used for the match requirement. In-kind support includes the value of goods and services donated to the operation of the DFC coalition, including but not limited to office space, volunteer secretarial services, pro bono accounting services, and other volunteer services to support the coalition’s work. All match must follow federal cost principles (see Administrative and National Policy Requirements Section within the NOFO). Applicants cannot submit match that would not be an allowable expense of DFC funds. If an applicant has sufficient match to allow a budget request of the full $125,000, the applicant should round up the final budget figures to equal $125,000. A match level over the required amount will not result in a higher merit review score. All proposed match is an obligation on the part of the applicant.

Federal funds, including those passed through a state or local government cannot be used toward the required match. The only exception in the DFC Support Program is in the case of a coalition that includes a representative of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Indian Health Service, or a tribal government agency with expertise in the field of substance abuse and serving a tribal community.

Other

If a funding amount greater than the ceiling of the award range is requested, the application will be considered non-responsive and will not be entered into the review process. The recipient will be notified that the application did not meet the eligibility requirements.

Special Requirements

Competition is limited to community-based coalitions that have previously received a DFC grant, but have experienced a lapse in funding or have concluded the first five-year funding cycle and are applying for a second five-year funding cycle.

By statute, community-based coalitions must be a non-profit organization or have made arrangements with a legal entity that is eligible to receive federal grants (21 USC 1531 §1032

(a)(5)(A)).

Organizations eligible to receive federal funds as DFC grant recipients must be legally recognized domestic public or private nonprofit entities. For example, state and local governments, federally recognized tribes, state recognized tribes, urban Indian organizations (as defined in P.L. 94-437, as amended), public or private universities and colleges, professional associations, voluntary organizations, self-help groups, consumer and provider services-oriented constituency groups, community- and faith-based organizations, and tribal organizations.

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