Saturday, December 9, 2023
12/9/2023
Component 1 – Abstract Summary District of Columbia Public Schools – School-Based HIV/STI Prevention Program The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) requests funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through the Promoting Adolescent Health through School-Based HIV Prevention funding opportunity (CDC-RFA-PS18-1807). This funding would be used to implement data collection and surveillance activities to collect data on secondary school risk behaviors and assess school health policies and practices in schools within the District of Columbia (DC) during a five-year project period. DCPS is requesting the funding ceiling amount of $60,000.00 for this project. Beyond the staid image of marble and monuments, this political epicenter is also grappling with an HIV epidemic. Further hidden from the national stage are the thousands of DCPS students for whom health disparities and negative health outcomes have defined their lives. As of December 31, 2016, there were 12,964 residents in DC living with HIV, of which 391 cases were currently between the ages of 13 and 24.1 Youth account for 0.4% of all HIV cases living in Washington, DC and 19.7% of all newly diagnosed cases between 2012 and 2016. To continue identifying risk behaviors and gaps in knowledge and implementation of health policies, DCPS seeks to rededicate efforts to collect middle and high school student data and principal and lead health education teacher surveys. To this end, we are committed to policies and practices that will aid in reducing sexual health disparities both within and without DCPS schools, and ensuring our schools are informed and provided with resources for students, staff, families, and community stakeholders. DCPS will collaborate with DC’s state education agency (SEA) at the Office of State Superintendents of Education (OSSE) to coordinate efforts in implementing the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). This collaboration has been established in previous surveillance cycles and will continue over the next three YRBS administrations under this project period. The School Health Profiles (SHPs) will be implemented by DCPS. While this has not been the case in previous administrations, DCPS has worked closely with OSSE in previous years in a coordinated effort to collect SHPs from DCPS and DC Public Charter schools. In this proposed project period, OSSE will be shifting focus from YRBS and SHPs administration to solely administering YRBS. DCPS continues to see value in SHPs data, and will take ownership of this activity over the administrations cycles during the proposed project period, building upon OSSE’s successes in SHPs administration, and driving school-led programming through a data-driven lens. Component 2 – Abstract Summary District of Columbia Public Schools – School-Based HIV/STI Prevention Program The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) requests funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through the Promoting Adolescent Health through School-Based HIV Prevention funding opportunity (CDC-RFA-PS18-1807). This funding would address specific sexual health educational and service provision needs of students in the District during a five-year project period. DCPS is requesting the funding ceiling amount of $350,000.00 for this project. Beyond the staid image of marble and monuments, this political epicenter is also grappling with an HIV epidemic. Further hidden from the national stage are the thousands of DCPS students for whom health disparities and negative health outcomes have defined their lives. As of December 31, 2016, there were 12,964 residents in the District of Columbia living with HIV, of which 391 cases were currently between the ages of 13 and 24.1 Youth account for 0.4% of all HIV cases living in Washington, DC and 19.7% of all newly diagnosed cases between 2012 and 2016. (Uploaded)
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).
