Call for Proposals: Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Program Planning, Implementation, and Resident Grants

Call for Proposals: Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Program Planning, Implementation, and Resident Grants Deadline is July 31, 2014 Applicants will receive notice of funding decisions November 15, 2014, or sooner. PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS Up to $10,000 will be awarded on a competitive basis to individual pediatricians and fellowship trainees to plan innovative community-based child health initiatives that will ensure all children have medical homes and access to health care services not otherwise available in their community. Priority is given to projects that will be serving communities with the greatest health disparities. All pediatricians are eligible to apply regardless of employment setting or retirement status. Outreach must be to the community at large, not to practice or clinic patients only. All initiatives should incorporate screening for or connecting children to medical homes and available insurance programs. RESIDENT GRANTS Up to $2,000 will be awarded on a competitive basis for pediatric residents to plan and/or implement community-based child health initiatives. Projects must include planning activities or demonstrate completed planning activities, and may include implementation activities. Eligibility requirement - postgraduate status as of July 31, 2014: PL-1 or PL-2 PL-3 or below in medicine-pediatrics residency PL-3 if planning a chief resident year in 4th year PL-4 or below in trip...
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