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Division of Overdose Prevention (DOP)

Notice of Funding Opportunity

Application due April 17, 2024 - 11:59 pm ET

Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program-Competing Continuation (Year 6) Opportunity number: CDC-RFA-CE20-200406CONT24

Contents Before you begin 3

Step 1: Review the Opportunity 4

Basic information 5

Eligibility 7

Program description 12

Step 2: Get Ready to Apply 33

Get registered 34

Step 3: Prepare Your Application 36

Application contents and format 37

Step 4: Learn About Review and Award 45

Application review 46

Award notices 49

Step 5: Submit Your Application 51

Application submission and deadlines 52

Application checklist 54

Step 6: Learn What Happens After Award 56

Post-award requirements and administration 57

Contacts and support 62

Agency contacts 63

Grants.gov 63

SAM.gov 63

Reference websites 63

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Before you begin If you believe you are a good candidate for this funding opportunity, secure your SAM.gov and Grants.gov registrations now. If you are already registered, make sure your registration is active and up-to-date.

SAM.gov registration (this can take several weeks) You must have an active account with SAM.gov. This includes having a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI).

See Step 2: Get Ready to Apply

Grants.gov registration (this can take several days) You must have an active Grants.gov registration. Doing so requires a Login.gov registration as well.

See Step 2: Get Ready to Apply

Apply by April 17, 2024 Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on April 17, 2024.

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Step 1:

Review the Opportunity

In this step

Basic information 5

Eligibility 7

Program description 12

Basic information Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC)

Division of Overdose Prevention (DOP)

Strengthen collaborations to reduce and prevent substance use in communities.

Have questions?

See Contacts and support.

Key facts

Opportunity Name:

Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program- Competing Continuation (Year 6)

Opportunity Number:

CDC-RFA-

CE20-200406CONT24

Federal Assistance Listing:

93.276

Key dates

Application deadline:

Thursday, April 17, 2024, at 11:59 pm Eastern Time

Informational webinar:

February 23, 2024, from 2 to 4 pm Eastern Time

Expected award date:

August 30, 2024

Expected start date:

September 30, 2024

Summary Our purpose is to support the efforts of community coalitions who work to prevent and reduce substance use among youth.

The program has two goals:

• Support community coalitions that work to prevent and reduce substance use among youth 18 years and younger by establishing and strengthening collaboration among communities, public and private nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments.

• Reduce substance use among youth and, over time, reduce substance use among adults by:

◦ addressing the factors in a community that increases the risk of substance use

◦ promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance use

We will fund applicants who previously received DFC funding (Years 1 to 5).

This includes DFC recipients who received DFC funds that experienced a lapse in funding or have concluded the first 5-year funding cycle and are applying for a second 5-year funding cycle.

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Funding details Type: Grant

Expected total program funding over the performance period: $62,500,000

Expected total program funding per budget period: $125,000

Expected awards: 100

Funding range per applicant per budget period: Up to $125,000

Expected average award amount per budget period: $125,000

We plan to award projects using 12-month budget periods for a 5-year period of performance.

The number of awards is subject to available funds and program priorities.

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Eligibility Who can apply

The intent of this NOFO is to fund community coalitions addressing youth substance use that have previously received a DFC grant (Year 1 to 5). In addition, community coalitions that had previously received a DFC grant but have experienced a lapse in funding or have concluded the first 5-year funding cycle and are applying for a second 5-year funding cycle are eligible for this funding.

A DFC applicant must reside within the United States or the U.S. territories.

The community coalition must be a 501(c)(3) organization, or the coalition can partner with an outside organization that is eligible to receive federal funds to serve as the Fiscal Agent on behalf of the coalition.

Eligible applicants These types or organizations may apply:

• State governments or their bona fide agents (includes the District of Columbia)

• Territorial governments or their bona fide agents in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau

• County governments or their bona fide agents

• City or township governments or their bona fide agents

• Special district governments or their bona fide agents

• Independent school districts

• Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education

• American Indian or Alaska native tribally designated organizations

• Public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities

• Native American tribal organizations, other than Federally recognized tribal governments

• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status, other than institutions of higher education

• Private institutions of higher education

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• State-controlled institutions of higher education

• For-profit organizations other than small businesses

• Small businesses

Statutory eligibility requirements While all entities listed can apply, to be eligible for this opportunity, the community coalition must also meet all the DFC statutory eligibility requirements. These include:

• Include representatives from 12 required sectors

• Be made up of representatives who have worked together on substance use for at least 6 months

• Have its main mission statement be related to youth substance use prevention

• Address at least 2 substances

• Not overlap with another DFC coalition without a letter of mutual cooperation

• Be able to receive federal funding individually or through a legal entity eligible to receive federal funds (such as a fiscal agent)

• Have not received more than 10 years of DFC funding

• Participate in the DFC national cross-site evaluation

• Request no more than $125,000 per year

• Secure a 100 percent match from non-federal sources

Required statutory eligibility proof To meet the statutory requirements, include the following attachments:

• Sector table that includes the 12 required sectors

• Meeting minutes

• General applicant information

• Letter of mutual cooperation if there is overlap with another coalition

• Statement of legal eligibility that says if the coalition is a 501c3 organization or is partnering with a fiscal agent.

• Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the coalition and the fiscal agent, if applicable.

• Ten-year funding limit: Attests that the coalition has not received more than 10 years of DFC funding.

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Describe how you will collect and report the DFC Program’s required core measures. See Required Performance Measures and Evaluation and Performance Measurement Plan sections.

Submit a budget and budget narrative that requests no more than $125,000 in federal funds and outlines 100 percent in non-federal match.

Ten-year funding limit If you are a community coalition that has already received 10 years of DFC funding, you are not eligible under this award. To be eligible, you would have to form a new coalition. The proposed new, unique, and distinct coalition must:

• Consist of different leadership and sector representatives from the community

• Have a new name and mission statement

• Develop a 12-month action plan based on a newly conducted community needs assessment

• Serve a new population

If you are a fiscal agent applying on behalf of a coalition, the 10-year funding limit does not apply to you.

Other required qualifying factors If you do not meet any of the eligibility requirements, we deem your application ineligible. As a result, we will not move it forward to merit review.

The DFC Administrator has the final authority to determine the eligibility of an application. See Initial review.

Cost sharing and matching funds This program requires you to contribute 100 percent of the federal share in Year 6. Beginning in Year 7, the percentage increases. For 6 to 10 years of DFC funding, you must contribute the appropriate percentage in match funding.

Year of Funding Request Matching Requirement

6 100 percent

7 to 8 125 percent

9 to 10 150 percent

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Types of cost sharing You can meet your match requirement through any combination of:

• Cash contributed by your organization

• Cash contributed by partners or other third parties

• In-kind (non-cash) contributions from third parties

Acceptable in-kind match Some examples include:

• The value of goods and services donated to the operation of the DFC coalition, including office space, volunteer secretarial services, pro bono accounting services, and other volunteer services to support the coalition’s work.

• Other volunteer services, including youth hours worked on events.

• Training programs sponsored by other coalitions or partners for the community.

• In-kind services provided by key personnel including the program director and authorized organization representative.

• Coalitions that include a representative with expertise in the field of substance use from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Indian Health Service, or a tribal government agency and that are serving a tribal community can use additional federal funding as match.

Unacceptable in-kind match Some examples include:

• Federal funds, including those passed through a state or local government, such as CARA and STOP.

Use of opioid settlement funds Use of opioid settlement funds may satisfy the match requirement under the DFC program and may be allowable as it meets the criteria of “not paid by the Federal Government under another Federal award” under applicable grant regulations, 45 CFR 75.306(b)(5).

This use of the funds in this way is subject to applicable law, including state, local, or other provisions that apply to these opioid settlement funds.

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Cost sharing commitments You must follow through on your promise of cost-sharing funds. To the extent allowable under the law, this includes those who have promised an amount more than the required minimum. We will put these commitments in the Notice of Award if you are funded.

If you don’t provide your promised amount, we may have to decrease your award amount. You’ll have to include your funds when you fill out your Federal Financial Reports.

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Program description Background Overview Substance use among youth has declined over the last decade, but there are still too many young people using substances like alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, opioids, and prescription drugs. And drug overdose deaths among youth have significantly increased over the last few years.

Effects of substance use When young people use substances, it can:

• negatively impact their brain development

• lead to risky behaviors

• make them more likely to experiment with harmful substances

• make them more likely to develop a substance use disorder later in life

Young people’s mental health, along with where they live, learn, work, and play, can impact whether they start to use substances. This can contribute to health inequities or injustices and result in higher risk of substance use among different groups. Regardless of these disparities, every young person deserves equal access to better health.

What we can do One of the best ways to prevent young people from using substances is implementing comprehensive strategies that address the individual, family, and community-level risk and protective factors that influence youth substance use.

Organizations located in communities are trusted partners because they have built strong relationships and understand the needs of their communities. By working together as a coalition, these organizations can create a tailored approach to youth substance use based on a communities’ unique circumstances.

We designed this funding opportunity to help community coalitions implement comprehensive strategies that reduce risk factors and promote protective factors to prevent and reduce substance use among youth. To do this, you will partner with a broad array of organizations and sectors within your community.

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Related work

• Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program-New

(CDC-RFA-CE21-2102)

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

(CDC-RFA-CE20-2004CC21)

• Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program-New

(CDC-RFA-CE22-2205)

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

(CDC-RFA-CE20-2004CC22)

• Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program-New (Year 1)

(CDC-RFA-CE-23-0004)

• Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program-Competing Continuation (Year 6) (CDC-RFA-CE20-2004CC23)

• Office of National Drug Control Policy | The White House

Purpose The purpose of this program is to support the efforts of community coalitions who work to prevent and reduce substance use among youth.

Approach Overview Grant funds support a comprehensive approach to address youth substance use in communities and to develop coalitions capable of building their local capacity to implement evidence-based prevention strategies. These are strategies that have been proven to prevent or reduce youth substance use.

Establishing a cohesive multi-sectoral community coalition can help to effectively implement evidence-based and practice-based youth substance use prevention strategies within a community.

These strategies should address the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance use and promote the factors that minimize the risk of substance use.

We based the DFC logic model on the Seven Strategies for Community-Level Change. The following logic model includes the strategies and activities recommended under this NOFO. It also includes the program’s expected short-term, intermediate, and long-term outcomes. The asterisked

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Outcomes are the results that you intend to achieve and usually show the intended direction of change, such as increase or decrease.

You will use these outcomes as a guide for developing performance measures.

Program logic model The logic model shows the strategies and activities of the program along with the outcomes we expect over time. We will require you to report on the asterisked outcomes.

Goal: Strengthen community coalitions and reduce and prevent youth substance use

Table: Program logic model

Strategies and Activities Short-term Outcomes 1-2 years

Intermediate Outcomes 3-4 years

Long-Term Outcomes 5 years

Strategy 1. Provide information to the general public and key stakeholders about youth substance use.

Strategy 2. Enhance skills among relevant stakeholders so youth and adults can engage in positive social relationships and decision-making capabilities.

Strategy 3. Provide support to increase opportunities that increase involvement in drug-free or healthy alternative activities.

Strategy 4. Enhance access, reduce barriers, and improve connections between systems and services that help prevent youth substance use.

Strategy 5. Change consequences to incentivize positive practices and disincentivize negative practices.

• Improved knowledge regarding patterns of youth substance use.

• Improve knowledge of coalition efforts to address youth substance use in the community.

• Increase outreach to relevant sectors of the community to address youth substance use.

• Increase the capacity of local agencies and organizations to address youth substance use.

• Reduce factors in the community that increase the risk of substance use.

• Increase the promotion of factors that minimize the risk of substance use.

• Increase the ease, ability, and opportunity for youth to access

• All activities

• Establish and strengthen collaboration among community members and organizations to address youth substance use.*

• Reduce substance use among youth and over time reduce substance use among adults.*

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Strategies and Activities Short-term Outcomes 1-2 years

Intermediate Outcomes 3-4 years

Long-Term Outcomes 5 years

Strategy 6. Change physical design of the community to enhance protection against or to reduce the risk for youth substance use.

Strategy 7. Educate and inform about modifying or changing policies that reduce access and availability to substances among youth.

• Increase intergovernmental cooperation, coordination, and collaboration to change the conditions that impact youth substance use.

settings, such as programs emphasizing self- efficacy and learning skills that prevent substance use.

• Decrease the ease, ability, and opportunity for youth to access substances.

* Indicates outcomes you are required to report on.

Strategies and activities This section elaborates on the strategies and activities described in the logic model and provides details on our expectations.

We expect you to work with your 12 required sectors to implement evidence-based and practice-based prevention strategies to reduce the use of at least two named substances. You can select these strategies and substances based on a community needs assessment or other local data.

Your strategies should seek to:

• Limit access to substances

• Change the culture and context on how decisions about substance use are made

• Shift the consequences associated with substance use to not penalize, but better support youth

• Address issues related to health disparities and health inequities

Make sure that your strategies are comprehensive, and you can implement them during the period of performance (5 years).

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Seven strategies for community-level change We included the seven strategies in our logic model. These strategies include efforts that affect individuals as well as the entire community.

• Provide information about youth substance use. This can include educational presentations, workshops or seminars, and data or media presentations like public service announcements (PSAs), brochures, town halls, forums, web communication, social media.

• Build skills so youth, adults, and community members can build positive social skills and enhance their decision-making capabilities. You can do this through a combination of activities such as workshops, seminars, or activities designed to increase the skills of participants, members, and staff. Examples include training and technical assistance, parenting classes, strategic planning retreats, and model programs in schools.

• Provide support to increase opportunities that reduce risk factors or enhance protective factors for youth and young adults. Create opportunities for participation in activities that reduce risk or enhance protection. These might include alternative activities, mentoring, referrals for services, support groups, and youth clubs.

• Enhance access, reduce barriers, and improve connections between systems and services that help prevent youth substance use. Improve systems and processes to increase the ease, ability, and opportunity to use them. These might include opportunities to access transportation, housing, education, safety, recreational facilities, and culturally sensitive prevention initiatives.

• Change consequences to incentivize positive practices and disincentivize negative practices. Increase or decrease the probability of a behavior by altering the consequences for performing that behavior.

These might include recognition programs for merchants who pass compliance checks and publicizing businesses that are not compliant with local ordinances.

• Change the physical design of the community to reduce the risk for and enhance protection against youth substance use. These might include re-routing foot and car traffic, adjusting park hours, and reducing the number and location of places where people can access alcohol or tobacco. DFC federal funds or your cost sharing contributions cannot support landscape, lighting, or construction projects.

• Educating and informing about policies that reduce access and availability to substances among youth. These may include written procedures, by-laws, proclamations, rules, or laws, to the extent that

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To help inform your strategies and activities, you can:

• Refer to The Seven Strategies for Community Change

• Use the National Coalition Institute’s (NCI) coalition logic model to identify root causes and local conditions to address youth substance use. You can use the results of that analysis to determine the strategies and activities you will implement to support the outcomes identified in the DFC logic model.

• Use the SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework for assessment, planning, and decision-making. Consider cultural competence and sustainability in all five steps of the process.

We do not require you to submit your own logic model in your application.

Outcomes This section includes outcomes we expect you to report progress on and achieve within the period of performance.

We expect you to achieve a series of short-term, intermediate, and long-term outcomes as a result of your efforts. Tailor the short-term, intermediate, and long-term outcomes in the DFC logic model in your detailed performance measurement plan.

Focus populations We expect you to define the communities you propose to serve, using various geographic boundaries including neighborhoods, Census tracts, ZIP codes, and school districts, as well as townships, counties, or parish lines, among other defining properties.

You must also include the rationale you use for selecting your chosen community and describe how you plan to prevent and reduce substance use among youth in that area.

Carefully consider the size and population of the area so you will have the ability to affect change. For example, choosing a community that is too large may be problematic because multiple neighborhoods may have distinct problems or conditions that need to be addressed to affect change.

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Equal opportunities This NOFO, including funding and eligibility, is not limited based on, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, age, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy) or other constitutionally protected statuses.

Health disparities The goal of health equity is for everyone to have a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health. Health disparities are often caused by social determinants that influence which populations are most disproportionately affected by health conditions.

A health disparity is a difference in health burdens between groups of people with differing social determinants of health.

Social determinants of health are conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age. These determinants affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.

We encourage you to pay particular attention to communities or populations disproportionately affected by substance use. These might include:

• Reduced economic stability

• Limited education attainment, access, or quality

• Limited healthcare access or quality

• Non-English populations

• Tribal populations

• Rural communities

• Geographically underserved areas

• Racial and ethnic minority groups

• Sexual and gender minority groups

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Organizational capacity You must demonstrate your organizational capacity to manage and implement the grant. This capacity includes your organizational structure, key personnel, and Community Coalition described as follows.

Organizational structure

Fiscal agent If you are serving as a fiscal agent on behalf of a coalition, indicate that in this section. The fiscal agent must describe the organizational structure and how it will support your implementation of the grant.

Fiscal agents must have the capacity to complete and submit reports, provide fiscal oversight, and provide adequate communication.

The fiscal agent must:

• Only be in receipt of one DFC grant at a time and cannot apply on behalf of multiple coalitions

• Be in the same state (geographically) as the coalition

Fiscal agents must include a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that describes:

• The working relationship between the fiscal agent and the community coalition.

• The management role of the coalition’s leadership in financial decisions related to the DFC grant

See Attachments.

Coalition If you are applying as a coalition with an established 501c3, indicate that in this section. Coalitions must have the capacity to:

• Maintain the required 12 sectors each budget year

• Formulate coalition goals and objectives

• Oversee operations of activities and programs

• Develop and carry out the 12-month action plan

• Create a sustainability plan

• Retain and recruit members

• Demonstrate substantial involvement from volunteers

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Key personnel At a minimum, we require the following key personnel:

Authorized Organization Representative (AOR)

• The AOR is the representative of your organization with authority to act on your organization’s behalf in matters related to the award and administration of grants.

• In signing a grant application, the AOR agrees that you will assume the obligations of the award.

• These responsibilities include overseeing the financial aspects of the grant and the performance of the grant-supported project or activities as specified in the approved application.

• The AOR must be an employee of your organization and must be identified in the Personnel budget category as either federal or non-federal.

• The AOR must not be the same person as the PD/PI and the project coordinator.

Program Director or Principal Investigator (PD/PI)

• The PD or PI is the person who provides programmatic oversight of the grant and is accountable to officials of your organization.

• The PD or PI cannot be the same person as the AOR. The PD or PI must be identified in the Personnel budget category as either federal or non-federal.

Project Coordinator

• The project coordinator manages the work of the coalition and program activities, including training, coalition communication, data collection, and information dissemination.

• The PD or PI and the project coordinator can be the same person.

Required skills Staff selected to fulfill key personnel positions should have skills in non-research program administration, including:

• Program planning and implementation

• Program evaluation

• Performance monitoring

• Financial management and reporting

• Budget management and administration

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• Personnel management

• Project management

To demonstrate proficiency in these topic areas, you will submit resumes for filled positions or position descriptions for unfilled positions. See Attachments.

Community coalition You must describe the role of the community coalition in this section.

For the purposes of this program, a community coalition is a community-based formal arrangement for cooperation and collaboration among 12 required sectors of a community in which each group retains its identity, but all agree to work together toward a common goal.

These required sectors are:

• Youth: Someone 18 years of age or younger in a public, private, home schooled, or alternative school (you must list their age).

• Parent: A person who is legally responsible for a child, grandchild, or foster child.

• Business: A representative of a business-related organization that provides services that are not in conflict with the goals and objectives of the DFC program.

• Media: A representative of a communication outlet that provides information to the community. Through an appropriate media platform, this representative should be capable of communicating and disseminating information (such as in print, digitally, or through social media) that furthers the coalition’s mission.

• School: A representative of the school system with influence in school policies and procedures.

• Youth-serving organization: A representative of an organization that provides services to support youth.

• Religious or fraternal organization: A representative of a faith-based organization or representative from a fraternal organization that is based on a common tie or pursuit of a common goal. The organization must have a substantial program of fraternal activities.

• Law enforcement: A representative of a law enforcement agency. The representative must be an active sworn law enforcement officer, not retired.

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• Civic or volunteer groups: A representative of an organization that provides civic or volunteer activities that serves the community (not a coalition member). Examples include Lions clubs, Rotary clubs, and so on.

• Healthcare professional: An individual or representative of an organization licensed to provide physical, mental, or behavioral healthcare services, like a pediatrician, pharmacist and so on.

• State, local, or tribal governmental agency with expertise in the field of substance use: A representative of a government-funded agency with a focus on substance use prevention, treatment, or recovery support services.

• Other organizations involved in reducing substance use.

For tribal applicants, appropriate sector representatives can be substituted.

For example:

• A traditional healer or spiritual leader can serve as the religious and fraternal organization sector representative.

• A tribal elder that enforces tribal law can serve as a law enforcement sector representative.

• A storyteller can serve as the media sector representative.

If there are substitutions for other sectors, please provide the rationale in the Sector table.

Collaborations

With other CDC projects and CDC-funded organizations We encourage you, where applicable and appropriate, to collaborate with CDC programs that are implementing evidence-based and practice-based prevention strategies that align within the Strategies and activities section and note this in your application.

Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) or Memoranda of Agreement (MOAs) with these collaborators are not required.

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Examples of relevant CDC partners and programs include:

• Overdose Data to Action – State Overdose Data to Action

• Overdose Data to Action – Local Overdose Data to Action

• Opioid Response Strategy (ORS), High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Program

• CDC’s Alcohol Program About CDC’s Alcohol Program

• Division of Adolescent and School Health

• Suicide Prevention, Division of Violence Prevention

• Office of Smoking and Health

• Office of Tribal Affairs and Strategic Alliances

• Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country CDC

• Division of Violence Prevention (DVP) Youth Violence Prevention Centers

Data, monitoring, and evaluation CDC strategy Evaluation and performance measurement are tools used to:

• Highlight program accomplishments

• Monitor the implementation

• Demonstrate the effectiveness of NOFO strategies and activities

• Build an evidence base for program strategies

• Clarify the applicability of the evidence base to different populations, settings, and contexts

• Drive continuous program improvement

The DFC National Cross-Site Evaluation is intended to measure the effectiveness of the DFC Support Program in achieving its goals of increasing collaboration and preventing or reducing youth substance use. The collection of key data is a critical component of this award.

Required performance measures You must participate in the DFC National Cross-Site Evaluation, which includes providing data every 2 years on core measures for alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and prescription drug use in at least three grades between 6th and 12th grade. We recommend that you include at least one grade at the middle school level and one grade at the high school level.

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You will collect data for the following measures:

• Past 30-day use:

The percentage of survey respondents who reported using alcohol, tobacco, or marijuana (prevalence of use) or misusing prescription drugs at least once within the past 30 days (prevalence of misuse).

• Perception of risk:

The percentage of survey respondents who perceived that the use of a given substance has moderate risk or great risk.

• Perception of parental disapproval:

The percentage of survey respondents who perceived their parents would feel that regular use of alcohol (one or two drinks nearly every day), or engaging in any use of tobacco, marijuana, or misuse of prescription drugs is wrong or very wrong.

• Perception of peer disapproval:

The percentage of survey respondents who perceived their friends would feel it would be wrong or very wrong for them to drink alcohol regularly (one or two drinks nearly every day), or engage in any use of tobacco, marijuana, or misuse of prescription drugs.

It will be your responsibility to adhere to the DFC National Cross-Site Evaluation reporting schedule (every 2 years for the substances named in the respective grade levels). If you do not submit the core measures, you will have failed to comply with the award terms and conditions.

We will also require you to submit annual progress reports that outline the community profile, sector and youth engagement, coalition capacity, risk, and protective factors, and implementation of youth substance use prevention strategies. You should identify and monitor measures of short-term, intermediate, and long-term outcomes, which can serve as benchmarks for measuring programmatic progress and impact.

Evaluation and performance measurement plan You must provide an evaluation and performance measurement plan. Use the measures required under the required performance measures section.

Include the following elements.

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Methods Describe:

• How you will:

◦ Collect the performance measures

◦ Use evaluation findings for continuous program quality improvement

◦ Incorporate evaluation and performance measurement into planning, implementation, and reporting of project activities

• How findings will contribute to reducing or eliminating health disparities, if relevant.

• How key program partners will participate in the evaluation and performance measurement process.

• How you will share evaluation findings with communities and populations of interest in a way that meets their needs.

Data management plan For all public health data that you plan to collect, describe:

• The data you plan to collect and their available data sources

• The feasibility of collecting appropriate evaluation and performance data

• Other relevant data information, such as performance measures you propose

We do not require you, at the time of application, to be in compliance with the DFC National Cross-Site Evaluation’s Requirements. However, we will require you to comply with the evaluation requirements once awarded.

This includes:

• Submitting any surveys used to collect core measure data for review and approval through the DFC and CARA & Me system

• Submitting the core measure data in specified increments (every 2 years) for the substances named in the respective grade levels

• Submitting a data management plan (DMP) that includes:

◦ The data you will collect or generate

◦ If there are reasons why you cannot share data collected or generated under this award with CDC. These could include legal, regulatory, policy, or technical concerns.

◦ Who can access data and how you will protect it

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◦ Data standards that ensure released data have documentation that describes collection methods, what the data represent, and data limitations

◦ Archival and long-term data preservation plans

◦ How you will update the Data Management Plan (DMP) as new information is available over the life of the project. You will provide updates to the DMP in annual reports. For more information about CDC’s policy on the DMP, see Data Management and Access Requirement at CDC’s website.

For a definition of “public health data” and other key information, see AR 25:

Data Management and Access on our website.

Work plan You must provide a detailed work plan (12-month action plan) for the current performance period of 2024 to 2025. The action plan should demonstrate a comprehensive approach to the reduction of the use of at least two substances and create sustainable community-level change.

You should develop the 12-month action plan by using the following example.

Make sure that your plan:

• Outlines the specific objectives, strategies, and activities that align with DFC goals, including who is responsible and the anticipated timeframe.

• Addresses at least two named substances that you select based on a community needs assessment or other local data. You should include a rationale based on data such as school suspension rates, school suspensions, juvenile court data, emergency room data, or other applicable data. Strategies and activities should be specific to the selected substances. Note: Vaping is not a substance, it is a substance delivery method.

• Includes activities that address risk and protective factors, including root causes that may be driving substance use in the community, such as Adverse Childhood Experiences, mental health, and health disparities.

• Uses existing frameworks, such as the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) and Seven Strategies for Community-Level Change.

• Includes objectives that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART).

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Work plan (12-month action plan)

DFC Goal 1: Establish and strengthen collaboration among community stakeholders and organizations to address youth substance use.

Table: Work plan example for objective 1

Objective 1: [SMART objective]

Strategy 1: [Specific strategy]

Activity Who is Responsible? By When?

Strategy 2: [Specific strategy]

Activity Who is Responsible? By When?

DFC Goal 2: Reduce substance use among youth and, over time, reduce substance use among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increases the risk of substance use and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance use.

Table: Work plan example for objective 2

Objective 2: [SMART objective]

Strategy 1: [Specific strategy]

Activity Who is Responsible? By When?

Strategy 2: [Specific strategy]

Activity Who is Responsible? By When?

You must also provide a general summary (up to one paragraph) of what you aim to achieve at the end of the 5 years and how the objectives and strategies

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You will have the flexibility to modify and finalize the work plan post-award and following the completion of the National Coalition Academy (NCA).

Table: Using SMART objectives

Regular objective SMART objective

Reduce substance use rates for adolescents

By July 31, 2024, reduce the percent of 9th graders in Random County who have used [specific substance] from 8 percent baseline to 7 percent as indicated in our annual youth survey.

Meet with 12 high schools to inform them about drug drop-box programs.

Public Health Staff will meet with key stakeholders at all high schools in our jurisdiction resulting in 3 out of 4 high schools committing to work on educating about and implementing drug drop-box programs by June 2024, as indicated in our annual school partner survey.

Paperwork Reduction Act Any activities involving information collections from 10 or more individuals or organizations, may require you to follow the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA).

This requires review and approval by the White House Office of Management and Budget. For further information about CDC’s requirements under PRA see CDC Paperwork Reduction Act Compliance. Collections include items like surveys and questionnaires.

Funding policies and limitations General guidance

• Your budget is arranged in eight categories: salaries and wages, fringe benefits, contractual costs, equipment, supplies, travel, other, and contractual.

• You may use funds only for reasonable program purposes consistent with the award, its terms and conditions, and federal laws and regulations that apply to the award. Questions about this determination should be posed to the grants management specialist.

• You may not use funds to purchase furniture or equipment. Clearly identify and justify any such proposed spending in the budget.

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Unallowable costs You may not use funds for:

• Research

• Clinical care except as allowed by law

• Pre-award costs unless CDC gives you prior written approval

• Other than for normal and recognized executive-legislative relationships:

◦ Publicity or propaganda purposes, including preparing, distributing, or using any material designed to support or defeat the enactment of legislation before any legislative body

◦ The salary or expenses of any grant or contract recipient, or agent acting for such recipient, related to any activity designed to influence the enactment of legislation, appropriations, regulation, administrative action, or Executive order proposed or pending before any legislative body

◦ See Anti-Lobbying Restrictions for CDC Recipients.

• You may use funds only for reasonable program purposes, including personnel, travel, supplies, and services.

◦ Travel: You must follow guidance provided by your organization. If you don’t have official travel guidance, refer to Planning for Travel for detailed guidance on local GSA rates.

◦ Lodging and subsistence: Other travel costs you incur such as lodging, subsistence, and incidental expenses must be reasonable and should not exceed costs either outlined in local GSA rates or normally allowed by the non-Federal entity written in the organization’s travel policy. Please refer to 45 CFR 75.474, Travel costs for further travel cost guidance.

• You may not use funds to purchase furniture or equipment.

• We will not reimburse pre-award costs unless the CDC provides you with written approval.

• The direct and primary recipient in a cooperative agreement program must perform a substantial role in carrying out project outcomes and not merely serve as a conduit for an award to another party or provider who is ineligible.

• You may not use funds to supplant current funding of existing activities.

“Supplant” is defined as replacing funding of an applicant’s existing program with funds from a federal grant.

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• No more than 10 percent of the total federal grant award may be used for data collection and evaluation purposes. The 10 percent limit does not apply to the amount of non-federal match funding recipients can use for evaluation costs. It is not a requirement for coalitions to hire evaluators.

• You may not use funds to provide funding to community organizations through mini-grants, or as a pass-through program, including one coalition funding another coalition.

• The coalition may not pass grant funds through by contract or any other method to another entity to conduct the programmatic work of the DFC Program. We expect the coalition to perform the substantive role and manage the efforts carried out by this grant.

• You may not use funding for stipends or for tuition expenses.

• You may not use funds for the following (not a fully exhaustive list):

◦ Youth sports programs

◦ Curricula or packaged strategies that do not have evidence of effectiveness or have evidence of harm in the peer reviewed literature

◦ Vaping detection devices, fentanyl test strips, or drug testing kits

◦ Purchase of Naloxone or Narcan

◦ Treatment services, programs, facilities

◦ Construction

◦ Landscaping or neighborhood revitalization projects, including lighting or community gardening efforts

◦ Law enforcement equipment, drug courts, drug search detection canines, or related training

Special considerations:

• Food is generally unallowable. Exceptions within the DFC Support Program may include food used as a small incentive (not to exceed $3 per person) to encourage participation in a community-wide event. Food costs are not allowable for general coalition or subcommittee meetings.

• The cost of promotional items is generally unallowable. However, the exception would be for program outreach, and other specific purposes necessary to meet the requirements, goals, and objectives of the federal grant award (not to exceed $30 per person per activity).

• You may use funds for program staff background checks and drug tests.

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Indirect costs Indirect costs are those for a common or joint purpose across more than one project and that cannot be easily separated by project. Learn more at 45 CFR 75.414, Indirect Costs and CDC Budget Preparation Guidelines.

To charge indirect costs you can select one of two methods:

Method 1 – Approved rate. You currently have an indirect cost rate approved by your cognizant federal agency.

Justification: Provide a summary of the rate. Enclose a copy of the current approved rate agreement in the Attachments.

Method 2 – De minimis rate. Per 45 CFR 75.414(f), if you have never received a negotiated indirect cost rate, you may elect to charge a de minimis rate. If you are awaiting approval of an indirect cost proposal, you may also use the de minimis rate. If you choose this method, costs included in the indirect cost pool must not be charged as direct costs.

This rate is 10 percent of modified total direct costs (MTDC). See 45 CFR

75.2 for the definition of MTDC. You can use this rate indefinitely.

Other indirect cost policies As described in 45 CFR 75.403(d), you must consistently charge items as either indirect or direct costs and may not double charge.

Indirect costs may include the cost of collecting, managing, sharing, and preserving data.

National public health priorities and strategies Healthy People 2030 This NOFO addresses Healthy People 2030 focus areas of alcohol, tobacco, injury, violence prevention, and substance use.

Other strategies This NOFO also supports the following public health priorities and strategies:

• HHS Overdose Prevention Strategy

• The National Prevention Council’s National Prevention Strategy – America’s Plan for Better Health (Tobacco-Free Living)

• The Office of National Drug Policy Priorities

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