Social and Behavioral Interventions to Increase Organ Donation

Funding Opportunity Number: HRSA-16-072 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.134Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: HHS-HRSAClosing Date: Dec 15, 2015Award Ceiling: $0Expected Number of Awards: 11Creation Date: Sep 23, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: This announcement solicits applications for Social and Behavioral Interventions to Increase Organ Donation, a grant program administered by the Division of Transplantation (DoT), Healthcare Systems Bureau (HSB), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The overall goal of this grant program is to reduce the gap between the demand for organ transplants and the supply of organs from deceased donors by identifying successful strategies that can serve as model interventions to increase: 1)            deceased organ donation registration among people over 50 years old 2)            family discussion and knowledge about donation among adolescents, and actual registration among adolescents, where possible 3)            consent of parents[1] for donation of a deceased minor child’s organs 4)            knowledge about the opportunities for and risks and benefits of living organ donation Accordingly, this...
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