Transcript ACL Lifespan Respite State Program Enhancement Grants Info Call Transcript 4-7-2020.pdf

Lifespan Respite Care Program: State Program Enhancement Grants

HHS-2020-ACL-AOA-LRLI-0413

Moderator: Lori Stalbaum April 7, 2020 - 12:00 pm ET

Coordinator:

As a reminder, today's call is being recorded. If you have any objections you may disconnect at this time. Thank you.

Lori Stalbaum (speaking on pages 1-15):

Hi. This is Lori Stalbaum. I want to welcome and thank everyone for joining this informational conference call today.

Today's conference call is to discuss the funding opportunity announcement for the lifespan respite care program, state program enhancement grants. So the goal of this call is to walk through the funding opportunity announcement itself and highlight some particular things you should pay attention to, and answer any questions you may have.

As the operator noted, this conference call is being recorded. A printed copy of today's transcript including the questions and answers at the end of the call, will be made available on www.Grants.gov Web site within about a week or so. So this is (Greg Legend). As I said, my name is Lori Stalbaum and I'm a management and program analyst here at the Administration on

Aging, which is a center within the Administration for Community Living.

I'm the Project Officer for all the grants funded under the Lifespan Respite Care Program. My responsible will be to ensure that grantees are working within the requirement of the Act and the funding opportunity announcement for the life of each project. I will be your go to person for all programmatic issues related to each project.

Also joining me on the call today is Pat Barrett, one of the grants management specialists for the

Lifespan Respite Care Program. Pat handles the business functions between ACL, AoA and the grantees that are selected. You would interact with Pat or her counterpart, Sherlonda Blue, on questions about budget reporting, drawing down funds, etc.

And as you know, Greg Link, the original project officer for the Lifespan Respite Program when

AoA first starting awarding grants, is also on the phone. As you can imagine, Greg is the subject matter expert on this program. He is also my supervisor and the Director of AoA's Office of

Supportive and Caregiver Services.

So to begin, this call is scheduled to go for about an hour. We'll take all the time we need. We may not need that much time; we may need a little extra, but I want to make sure people get their questions answered and we have an opportunity to go through everything as clearly as possible.

I first want to take this opportunity to highlights some key dates you need to be aware of in preparing your applications. And then I'll go through the funding opportunity announcement page by page, and highlight some key point as necessary. Following that we'll open up the lines for your questions and answers.

So first, some key dates I want to bring to your attention - April 7th, today's teleconference which again is being recorded so we can post the transcript on Grants.gov in the next week or so.

Letters of intent are due April 20th. I want to encourage you to consider emailing one to me, even if you don't ultimately submit an application.

Submitting the letter of intent does not commit you to actually completing an application.

Letters of intent provide a great planning tool for me to use when I’m structuring the objective application review process. Knowing ahead of time approximately how many applications might be coming in, helps me determine the number of grant reviewers I need as well as how to structure the objective review process, which in the long run, helps expedite the review and finalization process.

Because we're going to be doing virtual or conference call reviews, knowing approximately how many applications we're getting in will help me and my logistics planner plan for the appropriate number of reviewers and review panels, etc. So letters of intent should be emailed to me at Lori, L-O-R-I dot Stalbaum -- S-T-A-L-B-A-U-M -- at ACL.HHS.gov. And finally, the big date, the application deadline is 11:59 pm on Tuesday, May 26.

Applications must be submitted electronically via Grants.gov. The due date is not negotiable.

And applications received after the due date will not be considered for funding. I'll talk more about that - about the specific submission process in a little bit. The projected start date for these state program enhancement grants will be no later than September 1st.

So please note that September 1st is an approximate date for these projects. The actual project start date may be earlier than this, depending on how quickly we are able to process applications and get approval from our leaders on the administrators. So those are the key dates to keep in mind as you begin your work. I'll talk later about the actual grant submission process which you'll want to begin preparing for well in advance of when you actually push the submit button in Brants.gov to officially submit your application package.

Because there are items in Grants.gov that have to be renewed annually, so you'll want to check those things. So now moving into the funding opportunity announcement - I'm going to walk through it page by page for the most part. The page number I referenced are actually from a printed copy of the funding opportunity announcement.

So I'll be referencing the page numbers on the bottom right of the actual document, not the PDF page numbers which might - if you're looking on the screen will be slightly different from the page numbers I reference. So let's see. So as we walk through I'll try to call your attention to things I believe to be of greatest importance. But if I don't answer a question you have during this time, please do feel free to ask me during the question and answer period.

So first we have the cover page which provides the project name, Lifespan Respite Care

Program, state program enhancement grants. The funding opportunity announcement number which starts with HHS 2020 and the application due date which is again May 26th.

Next we have the table of contents which outlines the key sections that are in every ACL

(Administration for Community Living) funding opportunity announcement and which I will try go reference as I walk through the funding opportunity announcement with you. So now, beginning on page 1 of 45, again as noted in the bottom right corner of the funding opportunity page numbering, the actual funding opportunity information and requirements begin.

The first thing I want to note is that the announcement type near the type of the page states modification. This is due to the fact that we modified some verbiage in the eligibility section of the announcement. So - and reposted to Grants.gov a modified funding opportunity announcement on April 1st. So when preparing your application please be sure you're referring to the announcement that indicates type modification.

Below that again, is the funding opportunity number which again you will need to access the application materials and submit your completed application in Grants.gov followed by the key dates which I mentioned earlier and an executive summary or overview of some of the key points such as eligibility requirements, a summary of expectations for those who are awarded funding.

And finally a notice that this will be a highly competitive funding opportunity.

So only those applicants that can demonstrate the greatest likelihood of making measurable advances in their statewide system of respite care will be selected for funding. Beginning on the top of page 2 of 45 Section 1 - Funding Opportunity Description begins this section is broken into several subsections starting with the purpose.

In the purpose section we expand on the information provided in the executive summary with some priority considerations drawn directly from the act itself. Please be sure your application speaks to them, the priority considerations. Please be sure that as you write your application you clearly demonstrate that your activities will expand or enhance your state and local lifespan respite care systems.

Moving to the bottom - towards the bottom of page 2 of 45 is the background section of the

Lifespan Respite Care Act. Here we provide - goes almost into page - all the way through page 3 of 45. In particular, in this section we lay out the key objectives of the Lifespan Respite Care

Act which include - which is as follows.

The act seeks to expand or enhance respite services provided in states; improve coordination and dissemination across a variety of funding sources within a state; improve access to programs by streamlining the means by which consumers access programs and fill service gaps where necessary; and improve the overall quality of the respite services available in your state.

Towards the middle bottom of page 3 of 45 begins the program priority section of the funding opportunity announcement. This is a pretty big section. And it - I want to note that it goes through from page 3 of 45 all the way through page 6 of 45, the bottom of page 6 of 45.

So this is a key area to draw your attention to. So we start off by identifying the overarching goal of this new funding opportunity announcement and summarize what information applicants should describe, discuss and propose in their applications. Following that we lay out and discuss six specific program priority areas. That we advise applicants to pay particular attention to when describing your proposed approaches for advancing your state lifespan respite systems.

So rather than read through the list of the six items I'm going to move onto the top of page 4 of

45 and discuss each one of the items in full as we go through the pages. Excuse me. So the first program priority area is enhancement of statewide and sustainable lifespan respite care systems.

Here we provide four bullet points to help frame what we are addressing, which you will note based on the first sentence under the bulleted items, is that we are expecting applicants to discuss how they will "realize tangible, measurable and sustainable advancements."

We further note in this section that applications will be evaluated in pat on the extent to which proposals communicate a plan for the project sustainability beyond the period of federal funding for these grants that would be in 2023. A resource tool from the (Arch) National Respite

Network and Resource Center's Web site is provided top assist you in terms of tools for sustainability of programs.

And finally, don't forget to include objectives related to policy development that would corroborate how you would support or sustain your program should it be funded in this announcement - through this funding announcement beyond 2023. The second program priority area is enhancing the provisions of direct services as described in the act.

As you may know, the act states that there are five required services that each grantee must provide as well as three optional services. Under this priority area we direct your attention to the requirement to further develop and deliver each of the five required services and where appropriate, add in any or all of the three optional services based on emerging trends and promising practices in the field.

Here again we provide a link to the Lifespan Respite Technical Assistance Center currently run by the ARCH Respite Network. This link provides information about emerging models and promising practices, which may give you some - help you with your discussions with your coalitions and partners.

You'll note that the applications will be evaluated in part on how you propose to use grant funds to advance and leverage the capacity of your partnerships as well as increase access to respite services. In a nutshell, I draw your attention to the last paragraph in this section where we clearly state applicants should propose to both further develop their Lifespan Respite Care system and fill gaps in respite service provision.

The third program priority area which is about a quarter of the way down on page 5 of 45, is continuing to build collaborations and partnerships across the state. What this means is we will be expecting applicants to propose ways to expand collaborations and partnerships to "ensure the program reaches the broadest population of eligible service recipients possible."

Note the four bulleted items of potential stakeholders. You may add or expand. Please note this is not a comprehensive list but rather provided for example purposes. And finally at the end of this section you'll see the standard requirement for the Memorandum of Agreement that is required with all applications for Lifespan Respite Program grant funding.

Moving onto number 4, expand the availability of trained respite providers including volunteers.

Here we want applicants to explain how they will ensure an adequate resource of availability of respite providers whether they're paid or volunteers - how they're recruited, trained, monitored to ensure quality and safety, and the provision of respite services to family caregivers.

Describe how quality and safety of the respite care services will be monitored, including methods to ensure that respite care workers and volunteers are appropriately screened and possess the necessary skills to care for the needs of the particular care recipient.

Moving onto the bottom half of page 6 of 45, number 5 - identifying gaps in current services and conducting outreach to reduce those gaps. Here we want you to let us know the state of your current system of respite services which will lead you to identifying and explaining known gaps in your current respite system of care, which will result in your proposing how to address those stated gaps in respite services.

And finally, number 6, continuing to or increasing efforts to target underserved populations across the lifespan. In this section we define what we mean by underserved populations and then ask applicants to explain their current efforts and their current - the results they've had in serving underserved populations.

From there we expect applicants to explain how they propose to increase services to traditionally underserved populations, as identified for your state or local communities. And then right at the bottom of page 6 of 45 is a new subsection of the funding opportunity announcement called additional application elements which lays out specific elements for you to also address in your application.

Moving straight to page 7 of 45 you'll note there are three underlined items on this page and applicants should clearly address these in your applications. The first is system and programmatic performance and outcomes measurements. Here you want to make sure your goals for identifying consumer based - you have goals for identifying relevant, consumer based, programmatic and system level outcomes in your state that you would like to measure as well as your proposed outcomes for those stated measures.

You'll need to describe how you will count and record the experiences people being served, as well as the impact of the statewide Lifespan Respite Care system on consumers, their families and employers. And so in your application describe how this information will be collected and presented. Could you please mute? Star 6.

Please note there is currently no standard data reporting requirement for Lifespan Respite

Program grantees, so you will be expected to clearly explain your performance and outcome management. The next section here is participation and technical assistance efforts. In this section we note that we will expect grantees to participate in Lifespan Respite technical assistance related activities.

This includes conference calls, webinars, one on one technical assistance with me the project officer, as well as working with the Lifespan Respite technical assistance and resource center, which also has a new funding opportunity announcement posted for applications this year.

And equally important for technical assistance participation is the second part in which we strongly encourage - we cannot require, but we do strongly encourage state grantees to budget resources to travel to and attend the annual national respite conference which is a great opportunity for learning from your peers and getting on the ground technical assistance.

Finally, grants and subcontracts - of course successful applicants may carry out required activities directly or through grants or subcontracts with public or private entities. If you'll be issuing grants or subcontracts please make sure you clearly describe the specific activities for which these grants or subcontracts will be issued. And finally, in this section we had a reminder to clearly describe the role of the state project director as well as the role of the stakeholder groups as they relate to the design and implementation of your statewide respite care system.

Then we move onto the top of page 8 of 45 where there is again some brie information on the

Lifespan Respite Care Act statutory authority including some of the key but not all, of the objectives of the act. Midway down we begin Section 2 - Award Information. Although it doesn't state this in the funding opportunity announcement, this year Congress appropriated $6.1 million for the Lifespan Respite Act Program.

And so in this section you will see that we have allocated just over $4.3 million for these state program enhancement grants. This is how much of the $6.1 million we have available after allocating funds for continuation grants, grants to new states, the new technical assistance and resource center, plus administrative costs associated with grants management.

Through this funding opportunity announcement, we anticipate funding approximately 16 new awards with a maximum award amount referred to as the award ceiling, of $275,000 per year for each of three years and a minimum referred to as award floor, amount of $100,000 per year for each of three years.

I say we plan to fund approximately 16 new cooperative agreements as the final number of awards will be dependent on how much each awardee has requested. Also you'll note in the paragraph immediately following the table like information in Section 2 - Award Information, the number of awards issued under this funding opportunity announcement could be impacted by the number of awards that are made under the grants to new states funding opportunity announcement and vice versa.

During the course of the application review we may come back to applicants to negotiate the size of your actual award. Keep in mind we can never award more than you ask for. We can however, award less than you request based on the scope of work you propose relative to funds you request and the funds that are available. Please keep this in mind as you develop work plans and budgets for your three year project.

Like past years these new awards will be cooperative agreements which is referenced at the beginning of Section 2 - Award Information. But it's spelled out more completely at the beginning - near the top of page 9 of 45. As cooperative agreements AoA has a more active and collaborative relationship with each awardee throughout the life of the project. As the projects get underway I'll work with each new grantee to devise a communication plan for regularly scheduled conference calls, for technical assistance, updates and general programmatic discussions.

The terms and conditions of the cooperative agreement are laid out on pages 9 and 10 of 45.

And I do want to draw your attention to a specific sentence in the middle - at the end actually, of the first full paragraph on page 9 of 45 which basically states that the terms and conditions laid out in this funding opportunity announcement, are incorporated by reference into your new notice of award.

So please review the terms and conditions of the cooperative agreement so that you are aware of the expectations of my role as well as your role in the collaborative arrangement of the cooperative agreement. Also please note at the top of page 10 of 45, the standard language, that all grantees are expected to add to materials they produce, with federal funds.

Now page 10 of 45 we go to Section 3 - Eligibility Information. Please be sure you read and understand these requirements. Later when I talk a bit more about screening applications against responsiveness criteria before we send them to the review panels, you'll note this is one of the first things that will be looked at - whether or not the applicant meets the eligibility requirement as specified in the statute, which is explicitly what's stated in Section 3.1 - Eligible Applicants.

Continuing on page 10 of the announcement, another important issue for applications is match.

By statute cost sharing or matching is 25%. It can be cash or in kind. Congress has not permitted waivers to the match requirement. So as with most other federal grants match cannot be - must - I mean I'm sorry, match must be from nonfederal sources.

So as a reminder, cash match comes from nonfederal funds such as cash contributions from individuals or organizations. And in kind contributions are nonfederal third party noncash contributions made directly to the grant project and could include things like donated time, real or non-expendable property and goods and services.

Detailed instructions for calculating match are in Attachment A of the announcement. Section 3

Part 3 - Responsiveness and Screening Criteria is found at the top of page 11 of 45. Please be sure your application addresses the responsiveness and screening criteria. We will be screening each application internally to ensure that both responsiveness and screening criteria are met before moving any applications forward to the reviewers.

Failure of any application to comply with either the responsiveness or screening or technical criteria will result in that application's elimination from further review or consideration of funding. Responsiveness criteria include the five factors listed on the top of page 11 of 45. If all of these criteria are not met your application will not be reviewed. So please be sure to incorporate these elements in your application.

And I do want to take a minute to draw attention to the first responsiveness criteria as I believe it could be misunderstood as I've already received a question about it. In the funding opportunity announcement the first responsiveness criteria states one, has received a previous Lifespan

Respite Care Act Program Award from ACL/AoA with a project period ending no later than

August 30, 2020.

To clarify, this should have said ACL or AoA or we could have said ACL/AoA/CIP. The intent of this responsiveness criteria is that applicants must have already received a new state grant award under the Lifespan Respite Care Act Program. The AoA was added because the program started before AoA merged into the larger agency we are now, ACL. So just to be clear, when

I'm reviewing applications against this responsiveness criteria, I will be looking to make sure applicants have completed a Lifespan Respite grant to new states whether it was funded under

AoA, ACL or CIP.

The application screening criteria are more technical in nature and standard on every ACL funding opportunity announcement. Again, if your application misses any of these technical screening criteria your application will not be reviewed. There's one teeny exception. If all of the other criteria, meaning responsiveness and application screening criteria are met, but your project narrative is longer than 20 pages, we will take the first 20 pages of your application narrative and forward those to the reviewers for review. So if it's longer than 20 pages the reviewers will review 20 pages. No more. So try to stick to the 20 pages please.

Beginning at the top of page 12 of 45 is Section 4 - Application and Submission Information.

And since you should have all received funding from ACL before I'm just going to move right onto Section 4 Part 2 - Content and Form of Application Submission. This is at the bottom of page 13 of 45.

You'll note we have again provided a due date for the letter of intent. As I said earlier, they're not required but we do appreciate if you could submit one by April 20th via email, to me. Again, submitting a letter of intent does not mean you are committing to submitting an application. It just helps with the review panel planning. And helps to improve efficiency for me once the applications come in. So if you do choose to do so please email me your letter of intent to

Lori.Stalbaum@ACL.HHS.gov no later than April 20th.

And the final subsection here of Section 4 beginning on page 14 and going through page 18 of

45, provides you with the critical information on structuring your project narrative. Remember that the narrative is the heart of your application. This is where you tell your story and lay out your project. This is your opportunity to tell reviewers what you will do and as the primary means on which application scores are based.

And again, remember you have only 20 pages in which to do this. So planning and careful writing is the key. We will be using outside review panels to review and score each application.

So the narrative is your only opportunity to fully describe your project and respond to all of the elements of the funding opportunity announcement.

So there's a list of items to be included in the project narrative, but I want to specifically call your attention to the bullets under - which are bullets on page 15 of 45, under the section called

Problem Statement and Proposed Intervention under the project narrative instructions. These bullets describe elements that must be included in your narrative. They are taken directly from the Lifespan Respite Care Act itself.

The law requires applicants to address each one of these elements and their applications. So please look through them carefully. Look through all the pieces carefully but please do note there is additional information expected under the problem statement and the proposed intervention.

And finally on page 18 of 45, well barely on page 18 of 45, we come to Section 3 Part 3 -

Submission Dates and Times. Again, applications are due no later than 11:59 pm on May 26.

This section, submission dates and times, provides details on requirements for submitting your application through Grants.gov as well as information about what to do if you have technical issues submitting your application package.

So please note that if you wait until the last minute to submit your application and you encounter technical issues, this section also indicates what ACL will need from you, if for some reason your application is not submitted on time. And that includes a support desk ticket and other confirmation with a case number. So it's very important to try to submit your application before the last minute, just to ensure there are no issues.

And then please note on page 20 of 45, subsection 5, funding restrictions. These are not negotiable but rather are required by law. Additionally, finally, you'll notice in Section 3 Part 6 other submission requirements. We once again address the requirement for the applicant agency to have a Memorandum of Agreement included as part of the application package. You will recall this is a responsiveness criteria so please be sure to include this.

Beginning on pages 21 of 45, starts Section 5 - Application Review Information. This goes all the way through page 25 of 45. It's in this section we lay out the exact criteria against which your applications will be scored. In other words, the scoring forms used by the reviewers will ask them to look for each of the listed elements, these listed elements in your applications.

My suggestion is that you read and make sure your applications answer each of the questions included under each of the five sections or subsections of this application review criteria. You might want to make a little check box. I'm sorry. Excuse me. Keep in mind again, these are the only criteria against which reviewers will score your applications.

So as we move to page 25 of 45, about midway down, we've come to Section 5 Part 2 - Review and Section Process. This gives you an overview of what takes place after you submit your applications. Each application that passes the initial screening mentioned earlier, is reviewed by a panel of three experts in the field. Their recommendations are included in their final award decisions. They use scoring forms that contain each of the questions which I just highlighted in the above subsection.

After the May 26th application deadline applications will be made available to the reviewers within approximately three to seven days depending on the number of applications we receive and review panels we have to convene. Reviewers generally have about ten days or so to review multiple applications. In general, I anticipate convening the review panels by late June or so and notifications going out to successful applicants in mid to late July for a start date of September

1st but possibly August 1st. As I said earlier, if we can award - issue the awards with an earlier state date we will.

It will be no later than September 1st though. It all depends on how long the review and internal approval process takes. And this is as specific as I can be at this point, with respect to timelines.

But along with the other key dates we talked about I hope you have a pretty good idea of what will be happening as this process unfolds over the summer.

And then lastly, on pages 26 and 27 of 45, well not quite lastly, but is the Section 6 - Award

Administration Information. This contains explanations about award notices, administrative and national policy requirements as well as reporting requirements for both fiscal reporting and program progress reporting. This is followed by my contact information again, as well as that of

Sherlonda Blue, the other grants management specialist that works with Pat Barrett, and

Sherlonda’s email contact information.

Then beginning on the bottom of page 27 to page 45 of 45, all the way to the end of the announcement, is Section 8 called Other Information. This section details other required elements of the application and draws your attention to templates that are included as attachments to the announcement. We have templates for the work plan, budget narrative, etc., in the back of the application with samples of how they could be filled out.

You are not required to use the templates but are free to do so if you like. So this includes -concludes my portion of the call. Pat or Greg, do you have anything you'd like to add?

Greg Link: No. I don't Lori. That was a fantastic overview. Thanks.

Lori Stalbaum: Thank you Greg. Pat?

Pat Barrett: I don't have anything to add. Thank you so much. And it was nice to meet everybody.

Lori Stalbaum: Thank you. So now let's open up the lines for questions. I don't really have a system so if you have a question just please feel free to speak up and don't forget to unmute.

(Jutta): Hello. This is Jutta in Arizona. In looking at your list of eligible recipients for example, on page 2 about the middle, would that include grandparents raising grandchildren who may not necessarily have special needs?

Lori Stalbaum: Yes.

(Jutta): So grandparents raising grandkids are eligible Respite recipients?

Lori Stalbaum: They're an older population. Greg, do you want to help me with this? Well because…

Greg Link: Yes. They will be eligible. The distinction in the situation - for the Lifespan

Respite Program, the distinction between who is the care recipient when it's a child - when the care recipient is the child that child has to have a need beyond what would be necessary for their regular care and support. So typically we think of that as a child with a disability. However, when it's -and that's in the case of a parent providing care to that child. So in that case if the parent was raising their child and the child did not have any special needs, they would not be eligible for Respite.

However, I would say that in a situation where it's a grandparent or other older relative raising a child, whether or not that child has a special need. They could be eligible for Lifespan Respite Program funds provided there wasn't some other type of support for Respite available to them. Now typically the

National Family Caregiver Support Program would be able to provide support to grandparents or older relatives raising a child, whether or not they have a disability because they're an included population for that program. So does that answer your question?

(Jutta): Yes. Thank you.

Greg Link: Sure.

Lori Stalbaum: May I add to that a little a minute?

Greg Link: Sure.

Lori Stalbaum: I think the other thing to think about also - I mean while the National

Caregiver Support Program does include the population of grandparents raising grandchildren, we know from the work with the - supporting grandparents raising grandchildren advisory council for which Administrator

Robertson of ACL is the Chair, there is often trauma and secondary special needs.

Also based on the program that I ran many, many years ago, oftentimes and this is kind of half a question for you Greg and a half a comment, sometimes programs can have waitlists like the Caregiver Respite Supportive Services

Program. And when there are other programs that can bridge the divide and minimize a waitlist that can be a rationale for service.

Greg Link: That's correct. Yes.

Lori Stalbaum: So if they're already receiving services through the Family Caregiver Support

Program they may not be eligible - they wouldn’t necessarily be eligible for additional services or if they're within the foster parent system and receiving assistance that way, that they're a grandparent raising a grandchild who is on a waitlist or who is not receiving any support then that would definitely be an underserved population of a different kind; just to elaborate.

Thank you Jutta. Next question?

Man: Good afternoon.

Lori Stalbaum: Hi.

Man: Our state's Respite coalition or organization is actually a statutorily mandated advisory committee that reports to our agency. Since it's in statute now would we still be required to have the Memorandum of Agreement or would we just apply the statute?

Greg Link: This is Greg. Can you state that question again; the part leading up to it?

Man: So within our state the Respite coalition is actually the state's Texas Respite

Advisory Committee. And so that advisory committee is in statute and so I was wondering if a Memorandum of Agreement would still be required since it's in statute.

Greg Link: Yes. Because there are a number of states that have their state Respite coalitions or organizations codified in statute. And a Memorandum of some type is still required.

Man: Thank you. I appreciate it.

Lori Stalbaum: Thank you for the question. Next question please? Don't forget to go turn off mute if you have a question.

(Jutta): This is Jutta again. Since there's such silence I'll take this opportunity. Hi.

So your six priority areas on page 4, I was trying to read it when you were talking but are you - is there an expectation that each state will address all six of these?

Lori Stalbaum: Yes.

(Jutta): Okay. So we should address all six of those areas? Okay. Got it. Thank you.

Lori Stalbaum: Let me just - yes, at the bottom of page 3 of 45 right before the initial listing, there's a statement - oh, this is Lori speaking. It says, to be competitive applicants should fully describe their proposed approaches for advancing their state Lifespan Respite systems with particular attention to the following program priority areas. And then we list the six. So that is maybe something

I should have included. But thank you. That's a great question.

(Jutta): Okay, got it. Thank you.

Lori Stalbaum: All great questions. I really appreciate your questions. Anyone else? I don't want to keep you on the phone any longer. I just want to make sure everyone has a chance to be heard if they'd like to be. All right. Then I will get the transcript probably in the next day or two and it takes a little bit to take out some of the wiggy stuff they have in it. And I'll get it posted onto Grants.gov as soon as possible.

If you have other questions my email address is all over this funding opportunity announcement. Please feel free to email me and I will do the best

I can to answer your questions. I appreciate so much everyone joining this call today.

I do hope everyone is doing well under the current situation in which we live.

I wish everyone the best of everything. Thank you so much for your time.

Have a great day.

Woman: Thank you Lori.

Lori Stalbaum: Thank you. Bye, bye.

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