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Informational Call Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 2-3pm (EST) Join Skype Meeting

(770) 488-3600 | 8019483#; (855) 644-0229 | 8019483# Conference ID: 8019483 Funding Opportunity: CDC-RFA-DD21-2103 - Improving the Health of People with Mobility Limitations and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities through State-based Public Health Programs Program: NCBDDD, DHDD, Disability Science and Health Promotion Branch Agenda:

· Welcome and Introductions – Joe Holbrook (5 min)

· Overview – Arlene Vincent Mark (5 min)

· Section Highlights – Lisa Sinclair (5 min)

· Application Submission Requirements and Procedures – Yves Wilkerson (7 min)

· Questions and Answers – Justin Lushbaugh (30 min)

· Closing Remarks – Jon Biao (3min) Welcome and Introductions (Joe Holbrook) Welcome to the information call for the Notice of Funding opportunity DD21-2103 Improving the Health of People with Mobility Limitations and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities through State-based Public Health Programs.

Please mute your telephones and separate any microphones that you have because we do have feedback coming through. Thank you.

Good afternoon. I am Joe Holbrook. I am a Team Lead within the Disability and Health Promotion Branch, in the Division of Human Development and Disability in the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities located at the CDC in Atlanta, GA. This cooperative agreement builds on two decades of CDC program efforts to promote the health of people with disabilities. We look forward to partnering with organizations to continue this effort.

Before we start, we have some housekeeping notes. We would like to cover those first.

1. We would first like to take roll call. If you have dialed in by telephone, please send us an email to LVS4@cdc.gov and if you would, indicate your contact name and organization. We would appreciate that. If you have joint by Skype, put your information into the chat box and this will serve as our roll call for today. This will serve as our roll call.

2. The second piece of housekeeping - The original posting has been updated to ver2 on Grants.gov. Please make sure that you pull the most recent version of the Funding opportunity and ignore the water mark, “CDC Only.”

3. The third item for housekeeping - We suggest that you sign up for alerts and check the Grants.gov tab labeled “Related Documents” for possible future updates to the NOFO and supporting documents, such as the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).

We hope this call will provide useful information to organizations that are interested in applying for an award. We will walk through a few sections of the funding opportunity and highlight items to which you should pay particular attention. On this call, you will have an opportunity to ask questions virtually about the funding opportunity. If you have any questions about the funding opportunity, please submit your questions through the chat box or you can email them to lvs4@cdc.gov. We plan to post the questions and responses at Grants.gov. It will take us about 1 week to post. This will provide every applicant the same information.

Now, I will review the Agenda for this call and introduce the speakers.

· First, Arlene Vincent-Mark, Project Officer, will provide an overview and description of the funding opportunity. (5 min)

· Next, Lisa Sinclair, Project Officer, will provide key highlights within the front sections of the funding opportunity. (5 min)

· Then, Yves Wilkerson, Grants Management Specialist, will provide information about the application submission requirements and procedures. (5 min)

· Then, Justin Lushbaugh, Project Officer, will monitor the chat box for questions. (15 mins)

· And finally, Jon Biao, Health Scientist, will provide closing remarks.

With that, we are ready for the next agenda item, the Funding Announcement Overview by Arlene Vincent-Mark.

Overview (Arlene Vincent-Mark) Thank you, Joe.

This Funding opportunity supports a new five-year, non-research cooperative agreement to address statewide or jurisdictional needs related to reducing health disparities among adults with intellectual disabilities and other developmental disabilities (IDD), and adults with mobility limitations (ML) in the United States. Funds are provided to agencies, organizations, and institutions within states and jurisdictions for 6 activities as follows:

(1) establish, expand, and enhance partnerships with organizations that serve adults with disabilities

(2) conduct community needs assessments within states and jurisdictions to identify gaps in resources and tools, and identify action steps to fill those gaps

(3) administer and evaluate a training for providers on accessible preventive health care

(4) implement and evaluate a demonstration project to link adults with IDD to preventive health care and health promotion programs in their community

(5) implement and evaluate evidence-based health promotion interventions, as well as policy, system and environmental (PSE) changes, and develop resources and tools to address health disparities among adults with IDD and ML and

(6) disseminate key findings and lessons learned.

Please note, all six activities should be addressed in the application. Also, please note that evaluation is emphasized in activities 3-5. Through these activities, we aim to achieve long-term outcomes among the target populations including: (1) improvements in the number of providers that can offer accessible preventive health care, (2) fewer unmet preventive health care needs, including mental health; (3) improvements in health behaviors and wellness; and (4) improvements in chronic conditions and risk factors.

Many details are already provided in the announcement, but it is important to highlight a few key items as follows:

· Applications are due into Grants.gov on Wednesday, May 11, 2021 by 11:59 pm U.S. eastern standard time.

· Under our congressional appropriation, this is an open competition.

· Applicants may only submit one application

· Only one award will be made in any given state or jurisdiction.

· This funding opportunity is for non-research, and funds may not be used for research or clinical care.

· Award recipients must perform a substantial role and not merely serve as a passthrough to another party.

· This funding opportunity is for domestic activities, and funds may not be used for activities outside of the U.S. mainland or territories, e.g., travel to a non-US location.

Thank you for your attention. At this time, we can move on to the next agenda item, Section Highlights, by Lisa Sinclair.

Section Highlights (Lisa Sinclair) Thank you, Arlene. The funding announcement is divided into several sections. I will highlight some key pieces of information in the Background, Approach, and Application Submission sections.

The CDC Background section provides links to several references. You are encouraged to access the links which exemplify the public health issues and the science tied to this funding opportunity.

The CDC Approach section indicates the CDC program vision. You are encouraged to respond to all elements described in this section. Please note the following:

· Applicants do not need to develop their own logic model. If you chose to do so, you should include the components outlined in the CDC logic model. If an applicant develops their own logic model, the model should be referenced in the project narrative and uploaded at www.grants.gov in the appendix as a pdf labeled Logic Model.

The Content and Form of Application Submission section describes what needs to be submitted with the application. Please note the following highlights:

· The table of contents and abstract should be uploaded separately

· The project narrative should be uploaded separately. The Project Narrative is limited to 20 pages. The Project narrative consists of 5 sections – background, approach, evaluation and performance plan, organizational capacity, and workplan narrative. A formatted workplan with SMART objectives is not requested but may be formulated as an extension of the workplan narrative, if desired. If the applicant develops a formatted workplan, this should be uploaded separately at www.grants.gov in the appendix as a pdf labeled Work_Plan.

· The Budget narrative should be uploaded separately. There is no page limit to the Budget narrative. Please note that the budget narrative is more than a spreadsheet.

· Applicants should not attach documents other than those specified in the announcement. If unrequested documents are attached, applications will not be reviewed. That said, please note that there is statement in this section indicating that you may upload “other documents that provide evidence of experience.” Documents that meet this description should be uploaded at www.grants.gov in the appendix as a pdf labeled Evidence_of_Experience.

· A draft data management plan (DMP) should be included and uploaded at www.grants.gov in the appendix as a pdf labeled DMP_draft. Updates to DMP should be provided in annual progress reports.

· Finally, please note that the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) clearances may apply to this funding opportunity and will be discussed at the beginning of the award.

Thank you. The next agenda item, Application Submission Requirements and Procedures, will be covered by Yves Wilkerson.

Application Submission Requirements and Procedures (Yves Wilkerson) Thank you, Lisa. I am happy to go over the Application Submission Requirements and Procedures.

The Award Information, Eligibility Information and Application and Submission Information sections provide instructions for how to submit, validate and track your application, as well as how to address technical issues. Please read all sections and note the following:

· The award amounts listed in this section are subject to the availability of funds. Ten awards are anticipated, at an average cost of $572,500 each, but no more than $585,000, to cover the cost of the activities outlined in the funding opportunity. The budget submitted should be substantiated by the workplan.

· If you include contracts in your budget, you must include the following 6 items: (1) Contractor Name, (2), Method of selection, (3) Period of Performance, (4) Work Scope, (5) Accountability Method, (6) Budget Narrative and itemized budget.

· The total budget must include the indirect costs, if applicable. As noted in the funding opportunity, if requesting indirect costs in the budget, a copy of the indirect cost-rate agreement is required. If the indirect costs are requested, include a copy of the current negotiated federal indirect cost rate agreement or a letter of approval for a cost allocation plan. Applicants must name this file “Indirect Cost Rate” and upload it as a pdf at www.grants.gov.

· Please note that the five-year budget should be submitted with the application, as well as a more detailed budget for the year one budget period.

· You must register with all 3 sites (Grants.gov, Dun & Bradstreet, and SAM) before you can submit an application at www.grants.gov. The registration process can take up to 10 business days. Applicants are strongly encouraged to allocate ample time for filing to ensure that their application can be submitted and validated in Grants.gov by the application submission deadline.

There is a Review and Selection Process described in the Funding Opportunity. There are three phases of application review.

· In Phase I, applications are initially reviewed for eligibility and completeness by the CDC Office of Grants Services. Applicants are usually notified within 5 business days if their application does not meet the requirements.

· In Phase II, applications are evaluated by objective reviewers. Please take time to examine the evaluation criteria that will be used to rate applications.

· In Phase III, applications are rank ordered by score.

· As indicated in the Funding Opportunity, applicants will be notified of the status of their application. We estimate that this will be late June or early July.

The Award Administrative Information section provides specific information about performance reporting requirements.

· Please note, each year, performance reporting will take place two times:

· About 6-months into the award, CDC will notify you to submit what is called the Annual Progress Report or APR. The APR is an interim report that reflects only 6 months of performance data. When you submit your APR, you will also submit what is called a Continuation Application, which consists of a work plan and budget for the next year.

· 90 days after the budget period ends, you are required to submit two reports. The federal financial report, which is referred to as FFR, and the data on performance. The federal financial report or FFR will be submitted to the payment management system which is referred to as CMS. The data performance measures report (PMR) will reflect a full year of performance data to be submitted in Grant Solution. The mail in and format for the APR and the PMR will be finalized after the awards are made.

· That said, an initial Evaluation and Performance Measurement Plan should be submitted with the application, and it should respond to the CDC Evaluation and Performance Measurement Plan presented in the announcement (please see the revised funding opportunity posted in Grants.gov). Your Plan will need to be updated within 6 months of the first year and thereafter as needed.

This completes the highlights for this funding announcement. We are now ready to move to the next agenda item, a Question and Answer segment hosted by Justin Lushbaugh.

Questions and Answers (Justin Lushbaugh) Thank you, Yves. At this time, we invite everyone to enter questions you may have in the chat box or email them to lsinclair@cdc.gov. If you can, please reference the page number in the NOFO where the question originates. I will monitor the chat box and read all questions received. We ask that you not submit duplicate questions. We will post responses to the questions at www.grants.gov within the next 7-10 business days. This will help us consolidate our response effort to all questions. When the questions stop coming in, I will turn the call over to Jon Baio to offer concluding remarks.

Closing Remarks (Jon Baio) Thank you, Justin.

We would like to thank everyone for their interest in this funding opportunity. The point of contacts for this funding opportunity are listed in the announcement. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any technical issues.