Friday, October 4, 2024
10/4/2024
The New York City (NYC) Department of Education (NYCDOE) Office of School Wellness Programs is applying for CDC notice of funding opportunity, Improving Adolescent Health and Well-Being Through School-Based Surveillance and the What Works in Schools Program (CDC-RFA-DP-24-0139), Component 1: Local implementation of What Works in Schools and school-based surveillance. DP-24-0139 funding will support staff, programs, practices, and surveillance to address NYC students’ physical, mental, and social-emotional health, using evidence-based activities associated with improved student outcomes, and health education strategies from CDC’s What Works in Schools approach and promoted under the NYCDOE Citywide Wellness Policy. Positioned within the largest public school district in the nation, serving nearly one million students annually, including more than 464,000 secondary students, our Office will leverage Citywide and Superintendency structures, as well as our own expertise and capacity, to support schools in prioritizing health education, health services, safe and supportive school environments, and family and community engagement. We will promote and diffuse strategies to support students Citywide, focusing on students who have been marginalized, and adolescents at greatest risk for poor mental health, sexual health risk behaviors, suicidality, injury, and violence. Our goal is to reduce health disparities Citywide among students in grades 6-12 and support the development of positive behaviors that promote adolescent health and well-being and can continue into adulthood. Through DP-24-0139 Component 1-funded strategies and activities, our Office will focus on capacity-building around health education to increase the support schools need to deliver required and recommended instructional programs; collaborate with NYC offices and organizations to increase student access to and awareness of health services, including mental health services; promote and implement school-wide practices and structures to support student and staff well-being; and promote inclusive, accessible opportunities for families, schools, and communities to participate in student health policies, programs, and practices. In addition, Component 1 funding will support our Office’s collaboration with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to collect quality surveillance data on adolescent health risk behaviors through the 2025, 2027, and 2029 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). Our office will also collect data on secondary school health policies and practices through the 2026 and 2028 School Health Profiles Survey (Profiles). We will use the results to: target, evaluate and improve interventions; establish funding priorities; and plan professional learning and technical assistance for school communities to reduce health-risk behaviors among youth. Activities across strategies for What Works in Schools will create the conditions that contribute to the short-, intermediate, and long-term intended outcomes at the end of five-year grant period, improving health outcomes for NYC public school students.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
