Children’s Healthy Weight Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN)

Funding Opportunity Number: HRSA-16-180 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.110Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: HHS-HRSAClosing Date: May 17, 2016Award Ceiling: $0Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Mar 11, 2016Funding Opportunity Description: This announcement solicits applications for a Children’s Healthy Weight Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN). The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to develop and implement a Children’s Healthy Weight CoIIN, with the goal of increasing the proportion of children and young adults ages birth to 21 years who fall within a healthy weight range by supporting states to adopt evidence-based or evidence-informed policies and practices related to nutrition, physical activity, and breastfeeding.  The Children’s Healthy Weight CoIIN will support implementation of the Title V Block Grant transformation by supporting states’ efforts to address the new National Performance Measures (NPMs) on physical activity and breastfeeding by accelerating improvement and innovation through collaborative learning to achieve the greatest collective impact at the state level.  This cooperative agreement will also support achievement of National Outcome Measure #20:  “Percent of children and ad...

Source: Grants.gov - March 13, 2016 Category: Research Tags: Health Source Type: funding