Thursday, December 26, 2024
12/26/2024
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s (MDPH’s) application for CDC-RFA-CE-24-0027 for Rape Prevention Education application is focused on addressing the Social Determinants of Health, Health Equity, and the ways in which these two substantial factors impact the prevention of sexual violence and the environments in which sexual violence thrives. MDPH will seek to evaluate and improve the process and outcome measures used to assess efforts to create meaningful change. MDPH plans to focus on and evaluate the protective factors of implementing strategies that: Strengthen economic supports by exploring ways in which BIPOC communities can have better access to Earned Income Tax Credits, Family-friendly workplace policies, improved worker conditions, and addressing the harmful impacts of educational policies aimed to disenfranchise BIPOC students, hampering their economic opportunities. Create protective environments by addressing unsafe worker conditions, improving policies and practices with a health equity lens for youth-serving organizations to protect children from sexual abuse by staff and peers, and to create safer school environments where youth of color are protected from harmful and inequitable school policies. Promoting social norms that protect against violence by enhancing an existing social media campaign for youth to improve their relationships to include a clear focus on content that addresses sexual violence prevention outcomes/healthy sexuality. MDPH will work closely with Jane Doe, Inc., the MA Coalition Against Sexual Violence and Domestic Violence, BIPOC sexual and domestic violence advocates, organizations serving BIPOC communities, and partner organizations working to address the social determinants of health and health inequity to address the root causes of violence. These collaborations will result in shared leadership of strategic direction, identification of strategies, established evaluation measures, and a plan for improvements via yearly CQI through the creation of a State Action Plan and a state-level Evaluation Plan. MDPH will work closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to adjust strategies to conform to the parameters of the Notice of Funding Opportunity CE-RFA-CE-24-0027 and inform and expand the field of sexual violence prevention and public health to better dismantle the oppressive systems created through the structural inequities of racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and sexism.
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).