In this edition of Minneapolis Promise Zone Updates:
- Economic Development Group Strategizes to Increase Capital Investment
- Affect Change by Attending a City Council Meeting
- Minnesota Job Skills Partnership Request for Proposals
- How to Practice Self-Care After Trauma
- Compete in the Community College Innovation Challenge
- Attend a Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America Workshop
- Stipends Available to Attend PolicyLink 2018 Equity Summit
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News and Events
- Recent Federal Grant and Partnership Opportunities
- About the Minneapolis Promise Zone
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Economic Development Working Group Strategizes How to Increase Capital Investment on the Northside
The Minneapolis Promise Zone Economic Development Working Group reconvened for the first time in almost eight months. Among those in attendance were staff from the City of Minneapolis, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesota, five Northside nonprofits, and two local entrepreneurs. Partners and stakeholders discussed innovative ways to facilitate increased investment on the Northside.
One of the methods discussed was the establishment of a revolving loan fund (RLF) for Northside entrepreneurs and small business owners. A RLF is a self-sustaining funding pool that uses payments on previous loans to offer new ones, often at lower interest rates than other lenders. They offer an alternative source of financing for people who are generally not eligible for traditional loans. A successful RLF protects the borrower versus the lender unlike bigger banks. The Working Group established a subcommittee to focus on the RLF, which will seek seed funding from the US Economic Development Administration, the City of Minneapolis, and local donors.
The EDWG also strategized on how to apply for federal funding to bring Economic Recovery Coordinators to North Minneapolis. These would be experienced specialists in economic development who would compile information already gathered about the area (things like community-driven planning documents, labor and emerging market data, etc.) and develop a strategy for the Northside to maximize the impact of local development efforts.
Finally, the group has decided to raise their voice at the November 29th public hearing for the City of Minneapolis 2018 Levy and Budget. To make requests of the City Council as to how federal funding for low-and-moderate-income areas is allocated. Anyone is welcome to speak, and may call (612) 673-2219 to add your name to the Public Hearing Speakers List. The Working Group has collaborated on a list of requests, and will be looking for other Northside residents to speak for themselves as well. Please contact Sam Calahan for more information. Details on location and time of public hearing are listed below.
Affect Change by Attending a City Council Meeting
1. Public Hearing to Finalize 2018 Budget Nov. 29
The Council will receive comments on needs and proposed use of funds for the City's FY 2018 Consolidated Plan application to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for their Community Development Block Grant (CDBG). The estimated amount of money to be considered for the CDBG is $10,248,621. This will be a good opportunity for partners working on community and/or economic development to advocate for more capital investment on the Northside. The public hearing will begin at 6:05 p.m. in the City Council Chambers (Room 317) at City Hall 350 S. Fifth St.
2. Racial Equity Ordinance Hearing Dec. 6
There will be a public hearing on the new racial equity ordinance
on Dec. 6 during the Committee of Whole meeting. This ordinance proposes the
creation of a Race and Equity division in the City Coordinator's Department and
declares the City's intent to purposefully integrate a racial equity framework
into all of the work the City does to advance racial equity. The public hearing
will begin at 10 a.m. in the City Council Chambers at City Hall.
LIMS is the one place you need to go to find and track council agenda and actions
The City’s new system for looking up City Council records and videos is now online. The legislative information management system (LIMS) is available at lims.minneapolismn.gov.
Minnesota Job Skills Partnership Request for Proposals
The Minnesota Job Skills Partnership (MJSP) Board is soliciting applications for grant funding for incumbent worker and new worker training programs. MJSP will accept applications for the Partnership and Pathways Short Forms. Short Form applications are available for grants of up to $50,000.
Request for Proposal
Submission Deadline
The deadline for the submission of Short Form applications is 4:30 p.m. on Monday, November 20, 2017. No late proposals will be considered.
- Regular applications due by 4:30 p.m. on Monday, January 29, 2018.
- Considered at March 12 MJSP Board Meeting
- Short Form applications due by 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 20, 2018.
- Considered at March 12 MJSP Board Meeting
Proposals must be submitted to:
Department of Employment and Economic Development Business and Community Development Division Minnesota Job Skills Partnership 1st National Bank Building 332 Minnesota Street, Suite E200 St. Paul, MN 55101-1351.
More Information
How to Practice Self-Care After Trauma
November 15, 2017 marks the two year anniversary of the death of Jamar Clark. ReCAST Minneapolis recognizes this anniversary may bring up complex trauma for community members, especially those from the Black and African American communities. Below is a link of the first of three videos produced through ReCAST Minneapolis in collaboration with Resmaa Menakem, Dr. Joi Lewis, and SwayHeavy Productions. The video offers several ways to care for yourself through times of stress and trauma. A printable document is also linked below, that offers other methods of self-care as well as community organizations and mental health resources.
#BLACKJOY Video
Understanding Trauma in the Black Body (PDF)
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Compete in the Community College Innovation Challenge
The Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC) is a prestigious, two-stage competition where community college teams use science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to innovate solutions to real-world problems, compete for cash awards, and earn full travel support (students and faculty) to attend an Innovation Boot Camp in Washington, D.C.
The CCIC is an annual event in its fourth year. It is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC).
This website contains everything teams need to get started. You can see CCIC past winners at this link.
What the Challenge Does
- Strengthens and develops STEM thinking by applying it to solving real-world problems.
- Creates deeper engagement and interactions between students and faculty mentors, and with the industry community, in a focused activity.
- Expands horizons for faculty mentors and students.
- Promotes the larger ecosystem that carries invention from idea to beneficial innovation.
- Establishes productive relationships with NSF, AACC and industry.
More Information
Attend a Home Ownership Workshop Hosted by Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America
The first step in NACA’s "Ten Steps To Home Ownership" is to sign up for a free NACA workshop near you. At the four-hour workshop you will learn the details about the NACA program and the home buying or refinancing process.
NACA provides at least two workshops a month for each office. Unlike other programs, NACA’s workshops and individual counseling are free. These workshops typically address between 100 and 600 people. The workshops usually take place on a Saturday for four hours. They provide detailed information for a participant to become NACA Qualified or mortgage-ready.
A highlight of the workshop is the testimony of NACA homeowners. They are the best at explaining the program and the fact that it is actually as good as it sounds and even better. Many have interest rates at three percent or less by using the NACA interest rate buy-down.
The NACA staff utilize a power point presentation at the workshop. This provides an outline for the presentation, which is supplemented by the staff and the questions of the participants.
You must attend a workshop before you can participate in the NACA program.
The next upcoming workshop in North Minneapolis is on: Sat, December 2: 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. River Lutheran Church, 2200 N. Fremont Avenue, Minneapolis
To Register
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Stipends Available to Attend PolicyLink 2018 Equity Summit
The Alliance has recently
announced the availability of stipend funds for Twin Cities leaders to attend
PolicyLink's upcoming Equity Summit: Our Power. Our Future. Our Nation. This
summit will take place Wednesday, April 11-Friday, April 13 and is located in
Chicago, IL.
The application period will be open until Monday, December 11. At that time, a
community-led committee will review the applications and award stipends to help
broaden the Minnesota Delegation attending the conference. Final announcement
will be made sometime after Wednesday, December 20.
Individuals interested in receiving a stipend should fill out an application
and turn it into Margo Fritz at margo@thealliancetc.org no later than 5 p.m.
on Monday, December 11. The Alliance is looking forward to putting together a
delegation of over 100 Equity Summit attendees who represent a cross section of
the movement to advance equity in the Twin Cities region: community leaders and
staff who are currently sitting at an active campaign table focused on equity
issues, public sector staff or officials who are implementing equitable
policies and practices within their institution, and private sector leaders who
are interested in leading with an equity lens. The Alliance is also looking for
a mix of applicants who have both attended and have not attended Equity Summits
in the past.
Questions? Please contact Russ Adams (612-332-4471; russ@thealliancetc.org)
or Margo Fritz (612-332-4471; margo@thealliancetc.org).
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News
Events
Lunch & Learn: Home Buying 101 Tues, November 28: 12-1 p.m. Industrious Minneapolis Downtown, 60 S 6th St. #2800
Upper Harbor Terminal Meeting Thu, November 30: 6:30-8:30 p.m. MPRB headquarters, 2117 W. River Road N., second floor board room
West Broadway Area Business Committee Meeting Thu, November 30: 8:30- 10 a.m. Cookie Cart, 1119 W. Broadway Ave., Minneapolis
Holiday on 44th Fri, December 1: 6-9 p.m. 44th Ave N. will be closed between Morgan and Upton Ave.
Engage in Person At Minneapolis 2040 Community Meeting Sat, December 5: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Fairview Park Gym, 621 29th Ave. N., Minneapolis
When Arts, Place and Race Intersect with Development Thu, December 7: 5:30-8 p.m. Northeast Bank, 77 Broadway St. N.E., Minneapolis
Your Voice Makes a Difference- Serve on a MN State Board or Commission Mon, December 13: 6-8 p.m. Brookdale Library, 6125 Shingle Creek Pkwy, Brooklyn Center
Jobs
Best Buy Teen Tech Center Mentorship Program More Information
Uponor North America Three-year Apprenticeship Program More Information
Step Up- Achieve Internship Program Information Session Dec. 5 More Information
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The following content is for informational purposes only. For additional details on the opportunities below, and to find additional opportunities, please visit www.grants.gov.
Promise Zone
Preference Points
If a discretionary funding opportunity indicates Promise Zone
(PZ) preference points are available, please visit http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/promisezone/WCMSP-190631
for additional information on forms and contacts to request preference point
certification from the City of Minneapolis Promise Zone. Please submit your preference point request at least two weeks prior to the application deadline for Promise Zone certification approval consideration.
If a funding
opportunity does not indicate PZ preference points, you are still encouraged to
contact the Promise Zone Manager, Julianne Leerssen
(612-225-7721), about potential partnership opportunities to strengthen your
application.
EDUCATION & STEM: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING,
MATH
NSF: National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to develop
and nurture a national innovation ecosystem that builds upon fundamental
research to guide the output to facilitate the application of scientific
discoveries closer to the development of technologies, products and processes
that benefit society. In order to maintain, strengthen and grow a national innovation
ecosystem, NSF has established the Innovation Corps - National Innovation
Network Teams Program (I-Corps Teams). The NSF I-Corps Teams Program purpose is
to identify NSF-funded researchers who will receive additional support in the
form of entrepreneurial education, mentoring and funding to accelerate
innovation that can attract subsequent third-party funding. The purpose of the
NSF I-Corps Teams grant is to give the project team access to resources to help
determine the readiness to transition technology developed by previously-funded
or currently funded NSF projects. The outcomes of I-Corps Teams projects will
be threefold: 1) a clear go /or no go decision regarding viability of products
and services, 2) should the decision be to move the effort forward, a
transition plan for those projects to move forward, and 3) a definition of a
compelling technology demonstration for potential partners. WEBINAR: A webinar
will be held monthly to answer questions about this program. Details will be
posted on the I-Corps website (see http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/i-corps/program.jsp)
as they become available.)
DOD: Department of Defense
The ONR seeks a broad range of applications for
augmenting existing or developing innovative solutions that directly maintain,
or cultivate a diverse, world-class STEM workforce in order to maintain the
U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ technological superiority. The goal of any proposed
effort must provide solutions that will establish and maintain pathways of
diverse U.S. citizens who are interested in uniformed or civilian DoN (or Navy
and Marine Corps) STEM workforce opportunities. As the capacity of the DoN
Science and Technology (S&T) workforce is interconnected with the basic
research enterprise and STEM education system, ONR recognizes the need to
support efforts that can jointly improve STEM student outcomes and align
educational efforts with Naval S&T current and future workforce needs. This
announcement explicitly encourages projects that improve the capacity of
education systems and communities to create impactful STEM educational
experiences for students and workers. Submissions are encouraged to consider
including active learning approaches and incorporating 21st century skill
development. Projects must aim to increase student and worker engagement in
STEM and enhance people with needed Naval STEM capabilities.
HHS: Department of Health and Human Services
Health Resources and Services Administration
This notice solicits applications for the Nurse
Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) – Registered Nurses in
Primary Care (RNPC) Training Program. The purpose of this four-year
training program is to recruit and train nursing students and current
registered nurses (RNs) to practice to the full scope of their license in
community-based primary care teams to increase access to care, with an emphasis
on chronic disease prevention and control, including mental health and
substance use conditions. The program aims to achieve a sustainable
primary care nursing workforce equipped with the competencies necessary to
address pressing national public health issues, even the distribution of the nursing
workforce, improve access to care and improve population health outcomes by
strengthening the capacity for basic nurse education and practice and
addressing national nursing needs under three priority areas: education,
practice and retention, as authorized by PHS Act sections 831(a)-(c) and
831A(a)-(c).
ARTS & HUMANITIES
NEA: National Endowment for the Arts
You may submit only one
application for FY 2019 funding. You may not apply for both a Literature
Fellowship under this deadline and a Translation Project under the December 5,
2017 deadline. Grant Program Description The National Endowment for the Arts
Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and
creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable
recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career
advancement. Applications are reviewed through an anonymous process in which
the only criteria for review are artistic excellence and artistic merit. To
review the applications, the National Endowment for the Arts assembles a
different advisory panel every year, each diverse with regard to geography,
race and ethnicity, and artistic points of view. The National Endowment for the
Arts Literature Fellowships program operates on a two-year cycle with
fellowships in prose and poetry available in alternating years. For FY 2019,
which is covered by these guidelines, fellowships in poetry are available.
Fellowships in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) will be offered in FY
2020 and guidelines will be available in January 2019. You may apply only once each
year. Competition for fellowships is extremely rigorous. We typically receive
more than 1,000 applications each year in this category and award fellowships
to fewer than 5% of applicants. You should consider carefully whether your work
will be competitive at the national level.
NEH: National Endowment for the Humanities
Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (DHAG) support
digital projects throughout their lifecycles, from early start-up phases
through implementation and long-term sustainability. Experimentation, reuse,
and extensibility are hallmarks of this grant category, leading to innovative
work that can scale to enhance research, teaching, and public programming in
the humanities. You can find a discussion of the forms that experimentation can
take in the Frequently Asked Questions document, which is available on the
program resource page. This program is offered twice per year. Proposals are
welcome for digital initiatives in any area of the humanities. Through a
special partnership, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
anticipates providing additional funding to this program to encourage
innovative collaborations between museum or library professionals and
humanities professionals to advance preservation of, access to, use of, and
engagement with digital collections and services. Through this partnership,
IMLS and NEH may jointly fund some DHAG projects that involve collaborations
with museums and/or libraries. Digital Humanities Advancement Grants may
involve • creating or enhancing experimental, computationally-based methods,
techniques, or infrastructure that contribute to the humanities; • pursuing
scholarship that examines the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital
culture and its impact on society, or explores the philosophical or practical
implications and impact of digital humanities in specific fields or
disciplines; or • revitalizing and/or recovering existing digital projects that
promise to contribute substantively to scholarship, teaching, or public
knowledge of the humanities.
The Media Projects program
supports film, television, and radio projects that engage public audiences with
humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. All projects must be grounded
in humanities scholarship in disciplines such as history, art history, film
studies, literature, drama, religious studies, philosophy, or anthropology.
Projects must also demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and
analytical (rather than celebratory). The approach to the subject matter must
go beyond the mere presentation of factual information to explore its larger
significance and stimulate critical thinking. NEH is a national funding agency,
so the projects that we support must demonstrate the potential to attract a
broad general audience. Film and television projects may be single programs or
a series addressing significant figures, events, or ideas. Programs must be
intended for national distribution, via traditional carriage or online
distribution. The Division of Public Programs welcomes projects that range in
length from short-form to broadcast-length video. The Division of Public
Programs also encourages film and television projects that examine
international themes and subjects in the humanities, in order to spark
Americans’ engagement with the broader world beyond the United States. These
projects should demonstrate international collaboration by enlisting scholars
based both in the United States and abroad, and/or by working with an
international media team. The collaborations should bring broad cross-cultural
perspectives to the proposed topics and should be intended primarily for U.S.
public audiences. Radio projects, including podcasts, may involve single
programs, limited series, or segments within an ongoing program. They may also
develop new humanities content to augment existing radio programming or add
greater historical background or humanities analysis to the subjects of
existing programs. They may be intended for regional or national distribution.
NEH encourages projects that engage public audiences through multiple formats
in the exploration of humanities ideas. Proposed projects might include complementary
components to a film, television, or radio project. These components should
deepen the audience’s understanding of the subject in a supplementary manner:
for example, book/film discussion programs, supplementary educational websites,
or museum exhibitions. Development grants enable media producers to collaborate
with scholars to develop humanities content and to prepare programs for
production. Grants should result in a script (for a film or television project)
or a detailed treatment (for a radio or podcast project) and may also yield a
plan for outreach and public engagement. Production grants support the
production and distribution of films, television programs, and radio programs
or podcasts that promise to engage a broad public audience.
Public Humanities Projects grants support projects that
bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences.
Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in
disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. NEH
encourages projects that involve members of the public in collaboration with
humanities scholars or that invite contributions from the community in the
development and delivery of humanities programming. This grant program supports
a variety of forms of audience engagement. Applications should follow the parameters
set out below for one of the following three formats: • Community
Conversations: This format supports one- to two-year-long series of
community-wide in-person public programs that are centered on one or more
significant humanities resources, such as historic artifacts, artworks,
literature, musical compositions, or films. These resources should be chosen to
engage a diverse public audience. The programs must be anchored through
perspectives drawn from humanities disciplines. Applicants must demonstrate
prior experience conducting public dialogues. • Exhibitions: This format
supports the creation of permanent exhibitions (on view for at least three
years) and single-site temporary exhibitions (open to the public for a minimum
of four to six months), as well as travelling exhibitions that will be
available to public audiences in at least two venues in the United States
(including the originating location). • Historic Places: This format supports
long-term interpretive programs for historic sites, houses, neighborhoods, and
regions that are intended to be presented to the public for at least three
years. Such programs might include living history presentations, guided tours,
exhibitions, and public programs. NEH encourages projects that explore humanities
ideas through multiple formats. Proposed projects may include complementary
components: for example, a museum exhibition might be accompanied by a website,
mobile app, or discussion programs. Your application must identify one primary
format for your project and follow the application instructions for that
format.
The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is a
partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress to create a national
digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690
and 1963, from all the states and U.S. territories. This searchable database
will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and will be
freely accessible via the Internet. (See the Chronicling America: Historic
American Newspapers website.) An accompanying national newspaper directory of
bibliographic and holdings information on the website directs users to
newspaper titles available in all types of formats. During the course of its
partnership with NEH, LC will also digitize and contribute to the NDNP database
a significant number of newspaper pages drawn from its own collections.
Forty-five states and one territory have joined the NDNP so far.
COMMUNITY HEALTH & PUBLIC SAFETY
HHS: Department of Health and Human Services
This funding opportunity seeks to support the
Comprehensive Partnerships to Advance Cancer Health Equity (CPACHE) Program.
The CPACHE Program develops and maintains comprehensive, long-term, and
mutually beneficial partnerships between institutions serving underserved
health disparity population and underrepresented students (ISUPSs) and
NCI-designated Cancer Centers (CCs). The program aims to achieve a stronger
national cancer program and address challenges in cancer and cancer disparities
research, education and outreach, as well as their impact on underserved
populations. The institutions in each partnership are expected to work
collaboratively to: 1) increase the cancer research and cancer research
education capacity of the ISUPSs; 2) increase the number of students and
investigators from underrepresented populations engaged in cancer research; 3)
improve the effectiveness of CCs in developing and sustaining research programs
focused on cancer health disparities and increase the number of investigators
and students conducting cancer health disparities research; and 4) develop and
implement cancer-related activities that benefit the surrounding underserved
communities.
This initiative encourages research that targets the
reduction of health disparities among children. Investing in early childhood
development is essential. Specific targeted areas of research include
bio-behavioral studies that incorporate multiple factors that influence child
health disparities such as biological (e.g., genetics, cellular, organ
systems), lifestyle factors, environmental (e.g., physical and family
environments) social (e.g., peers), economic, institutional, and cultural and
family influences; studies that target the specific health promotion needs of
children with a known health condition and/or disability; and studies that
test, evaluate, translate, and disseminate health promotion prevention and
interventions conducted in traditional and non -traditional settings.
This initiative seeks applications that propose to
stimulate and expand research in the health of minority men. Specifically, this
initiative is intended to: 1) enhance our understanding of the numerous factors
(e.g., sociodemographic, community, societal, personal) influencing the health
promoting behaviors of racial and ethnic minority males across the life cycle,
and 2) encourage applications focusing on the development and testing of culturally
and linguistically appropriate health-promoting interventions designed to
reduce health disparities among racially and ethnically diverse males age 18
and older.
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF),
Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) is soliciting applications
for Child Care Research Scholars grants to support dissertation research on
child care policy issues. These grants are meant to build capacity in the
research field to focus research on questions that have direct implications for
child care policy decision-making and program administration, and to foster
mentoring relationships between faculty members and high-quality doctoral
students. For further information about prior awards made to Child Care
Research Scholars, see (http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/research/project/child-care-research-scholars.)
The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) of
the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is soliciting applications
for the Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants to support dissertation
research by advanced graduate students who are working in partnership with Head
Start programs and with faculty mentors. Competitive applicants will 1)
demonstrate a collaborative partnership with their program partners, and 2)
pursue research questions that directly inform local, state, or federal policy
relevant to multiple early care and education practices.
The dissertation mentor who will serve as principal
investigator, must have a Ph.D. or equivalent in their respective field and
conduct research as a primary professional responsibility. Faculty members with
doctoral training and research expertise will be able to provide proper
supervision and quality control over the research project to help ensure an
ethical approach and a quality end product. The graduate student is expected to
have an approved dissertation proposal by the application due date and must
submit evidence with the application submission, if available. The applicant
organization must have a history of research and budget oversight and must have
appropriate resources to support the student's work. The proposal must be
confirmed as dissertation-level research. The faculty mentor who will serve as
principal investigator must have a Ph.D. or equivalent in the respective field
and conduct research as a primary professional responsibility. Faith-based and
community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to
receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement. Applications from
individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not
eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and from funding
under this announcement.
The Regional PHTC Program seeks to increase the number of
individuals in the public health workforce, enhance the quality of this
workforce, and improve the ability of this workforce to meet national, state,
and local health care needs. Specifically this program aims to strengthen
the public health workforce through tailored training and technical assistance
involving collaborative, community-based projects. Training curricula
will provide skill-based, interactive instruction and quality education using
multiple modalities (i.e., synchronous, asynchronous, distance-based,
bi-directional video), underscoring the following eight cross-cutting core
public health competency domains in the primary areas of (1) systems
thinking, (2) change management, and (3) persuasive communication; and
secondary areas of (4) data analytics, (5) problem solving, (6) training a
“health work force [sic] that reflects and responds to the cultural diversity
of populations served” as supported by section 766(b)(1),[1] (7) resource
management, and (8) policy engagement.
The purpose of the Federal SBIR program is to stimulate
technological innovation in the private sector, strengthen the role of small
business in meeting Federal research or research and development (R/R&D)
needs, and improve the return on investment from Federally-funded research for
economic and social benefits to the Nation. The specific purpose of NIDILRR's
SBIR program is to improve the lives of people with disabilities through
R/R&D products generated by small businesses, and to increase the
commercial application of NIDILRR-supported research results and development
products.
The purpose of this Funding
Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage research to improve
self-management and quality of life in children and adolescents with chronic
conditions. Managing a chronic condition is an unremitting responsibility for
children and their families. Children with a chronic condition and their
families have a long-term responsibility for self-management. This FOA
encourages research that takes into consideration various factors that
influence self-management such as individual differences, biological and
psychological factors, family/caregivers and sociocultural context,
family-community dynamics, healthcare system factors, technological advances,
and the role of the environment.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), within the
Administration for Children and Families (ACF), announces that it will award up
to four cooperative agreements to provide innovative technical assistance (TA)
to ORR-funded refugee service providers, State Refugee Coordinators, State
Refugee Health Coordinators, and others working with refugees to fill a gap
where no other such TA exists. The Refugee TA Program will respond to refugees'
unique challenges and needs, and leverage the strengths, talents, and
capabilities of refugees and their resettlement communities. The overall goal
of the Refugee TA Program is to equip refugee service providers and other professionals
working with refugees the specialized TA and training needed to appropriately
address, through a strengths-based approach, any barriers that refugees may
encounter while trying to access community-based services, education,
employment, and specialized care. The Refugee TA Program is also intended to
provide the necessary training and TA needed for refugee-serving organizations
and agencies to measure the effectiveness of their programs and services, and
to communicate that to refugee resettlement stakeholders and the broader
American public. The Refugee TA Program will focus on the following areas:
early economic self-sufficiency through employment, including a focus on
skilled and highly skilled individuals; trauma-informed integrated refugee healthcare;
refugee child and family wellbeing, including youth mentoring; and evaluation,
focusing on the collection, management, analysis, and communication of data.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will support
pilot, feasibility or exploratory research in 5 priority areas in substance use
epidemiology and health services, including: 1) responses to sudden and severe
emerging drug issues (e.g. the ability to look into a large and sudden spike in
synthetic cannabinoid use/overdoses in a particular community); 2) responses to
emerging marijuana trends and topics related to the shifting policy landscape;
3) responses to unexpected and time-sensitive prescription drug abuse research
opportunities (e.g.,new state or local efforts); 4) responses to unexpected and
time-sensitive medical system issues (e.g. opportunities to understand
addiction services in the evolving health care system); and 5) responses to
unexpected and time-sensitive criminal or juvenile justice opportunities (e.g.
new system and/or structural level changes) that relate to drug abuse and
access and provision of health care service. It should be clear that the
knowledge gained from the proposed study is time-sensitive and that an
expedited rapid review and funding are required in order for the scientific
question to be answered.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) is
accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2018 Grants to Expand Substance
Abuse Treatment Capacity in Family Treatment Drug Courts [Short Title: Family
Treatment Drug Courts (FTDC)]. The purpose of this program is to expand
substance use disorder (SUD) treatment services in existing family treatment
drug courts, which use the family treatment drug court model in order to
provide alcohol and drug treatment (including recovery support services,
screening, assessment, case management, and program coordination) to parents
with a SUD and/or co-occurring SUD and mental disorders who have had a
dependency petition filed against them or are at risk of such filing. Services
must address the needs of the family as a whole and include direct service
provision to children (18 and under) of individuals served by this project.
Recipients will be expected to provide a coordinated, multi-system approach
designed to combine the sanctioning power of treatment drug courts with
effective treatment services promoting successful family preservation and
reunification. Priority funding should address gaps in the treatment continuum
for court involved individuals who need treatment for a SUD and/or co-occurring
SUD and mental disorders while simultaneously addressing the needs of their
children. The expectations of the grant are to provide funding for FTDCs to
assist participants in reducing the rates of substance misuse, the severity of
SUDs and co-occurring disorders, and decreasing out of home placements for
children through family reunification and preservation. This, in turn, should
also decrease the number of parents or guardians whose parental rights have
been or will be terminated.
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About the Minneapolis Promise Zone
Promise Zones are federally designated, high poverty communities where the federal government partners with local leaders to increase economic activity, improve educational opportunities, and leverage private investment. The Minneapolis Promise Zone (MPZ) plan is a comprehensive, community-driven revitalization strategy that builds on and aligns numerous initiatives to address the persistent unemployment, crime, housing blight, and poor educational outcomes that affect that area.
Contact information: Juli Leerssen, (612) 225-7721
For more information, please visit www.minneapolismn.gov/promisezone
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