Notices. Notice of a Non-Competitive One-Year Extension With Funds for State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) (H-25) Grantees
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BILLING CODE 4165-15-P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Health Resources and Services Administration Non-Competitive One-Year Extension With Funds for State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Grantees AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS. ACTION: Notice of a Non-Competitive One-Year Extension With Funds for State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems
(ECCS)(H-25) Grantees. SUMMARY: The Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA)will be issuing a non-competitive one-year extension with funds for the current grantees of the State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Program. Up to $150,000 per grantee will be awarded over a one-year extended project period. The State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems
(ECCS)Grant Program ensures the healthy physical, social, and emotional development of children (birth to five years of age) by supporting statewide collaborations of early childhood service providers to create a seamless system of early childhood services for young children and their families. Each ECCS grantee is an active member, and in some cases these grantees hold a leadership role in their early childhood multi-agency State teams. Together, such teams have developed Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Plans that guide the development, implementation, governance, and financing of their States' early childhood service systems. The State team activities associated with these plans, and the comprehensive systems they describe, also include the identification and implementation of early childhood systems best-practice models, as well as the development of human resources and policies to support these practices. This extension with funds will allow HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau
(MCHB)to align its early childhood systems-building activities with HRSA's Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program, the State Advisory Councils
(SACs)and other early childhood initiatives under the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Project LAUNCH, and the Department of Education's Race to the Top (RTT). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Grantees of record and intended award amounts are: Grantee organization name Grant No. State FY2011 authorized funding level FY2012 estimated funding level Alabama department of public health H25MC00238C0 AL $150,000.00 $150,000.00 Arizona Early Childhood Development and Health Board H25MC17140A0 AZ 150,000.00 150,000.00 Arkansas Department of Health H25MC00265C0 AR 150,000.00 150,000.00 California Department of Public Health H25MC08762B0 CA 150,000.00 150,000.00 Colorado State Department/Public Health & Environment H25MC00228C0 CO 150,000.00 150,000.00 Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands H25MC06112B0 MP 150,000.00 150,000.00 Delaware Health & Social Services H25MC00253C0 DE 150,000.00 150,000.00 District of Columbia/Department of Health H25MC00241C0 DC 150,000.00 150,000.00 Florida State Department of Health H25MC01320C0 FL 150,000.00 150,000.00 Georgia Department of Community Health H25MC16260A0 GA 150,000.00 150,000.00 Idaho State Department of Health and Welfare H25MC00245C0 ID 150,000.00 150,000.00 Illinois Department of Human Services H25MC00247C0 IL 150,000.00 150,000.00 Indiana State Department of Health H25MC00263C0 IN 150,000.00 150,000.00 Iowa Department of Public Health H25MC00230C0 IA 150,000.00 150,000.00 Kansas State Department of Health and Environment H25MC00234C0 KS 150,000.00 150,000.00 Kentucky Cabinet for Health Services H25MC00255C0 KY 150,000.00 150,000.00 Louisiana State Department of Health & Hospitals H25MC00271C0 LA 150,000.00 150,000.00 Maine Department of Human Services H25MC00266C0 ME 150,000.00 150,000.00 Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene H25MC00273C0 MD 150,000.00 150,000.00 Massachusetts Department of Public Health H25MC00262C0 MA 150,000.00 150,000.00 Michigan Department of Community Health H25MC00252C0 MI 150,000.00 150,000.00 Minnesota Department of Health H25MC00276C0 MN 150,000.00 150,000.00 Missouri Department of Health H25MC01327C0 MO 150,000.00 150,000.00 Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services H25MC06098B0 MT 150,000.00 150,000.00 North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services H25MC00259C0 NC 150,000.00 150,000.00 Nevada Department of Human Resources H25MC00229C0 NV 150,000.00 150,000.00 New Jersey State Department of Health and Senior Services H25MC00248C0 NJ 150,000.00 150,000.00 New Mexico State Department of Health H25MC00236C0 NM 150,000.00 150,000.00 New York State Office of Children and Family Services H25MC12970A0 NY 150,000.00 150,000.00 North Dakota State Department of Health H25MC00237D0 ND 150,000.00 150,000.00 Oklahoma State Department of Health H25MC01323C0 OK 150,000.00 150,000.00 Oregon State Department of Human Services H25MC00269C0 OR 150,000.00 150,000.00 Puerto Rico Department of Health H25MC00274C0 PR 150,000.00 150,000.00 Republic of Palau Bureau of Health Services H25MC00277C0 PW 150,000.00 150,000.00 State of Alaska Department of Health & Social Services H25MC01326C0 AK 150,000.00 150,000.00 State of Connecticut H25MC01329C0 CT 150,000.00 150,000.00 State of Hawaii Department of Health H25MC00278C0 HI 150,000.00 150,000.00 State of Nebraska H25MC00240C0 NE 150,000.00 150,000.00 State of New Hampshire H25MC00249C0 NH 150,000.00 150,000.00 State of Ohio-Department of Health H25MC01324C0 OH 150,000.00 150,000.00 State of Rhode Island Department of Health H25MC00270C0 RI 150,000.00 150,000.00 State of South Carolina H25MC06113B0 SC 150,000.00 150,000.00 Tennessee State Department of Health H25MC00260C0 TN 150,000.00 150,000.00 Texas Health & Human Services Commission H25MC03383C0 TX 150,000.00 150,000.00 University of Guam H25MC18121A0 GU 150,000.00 150,000.00 Utah Department of Health H25MC00268C0 UT 150,000.00 150,000.00 Vermont State Department of Health H25MC00235C0 VT 150,000.00 150,000.00 Virginia State Department of Health H25MC00231C0 VA 150,000.00 150,000.00 Washington State Department of Health H25MC00254C0 WA 150,000.00 150,000.00 West Virginia, Department of Health and Human Services H25MC01328C0 WV 150,000.00 150,000.00 Wisconsin State Department of Health & Social Services H25MC00232C0 WI 150,000.00 150,000.00 Wyoming State Department of Health H25MC00256C0 WY 150,000.00 150,000.00 *Amount of the Award(s):* Up to $150,000 per grantee over a one-year project period. *CFDA Number:* 93.110. *Current Project Period:* 6/1/2011 through 5/31/2012. *Period of Supplemental Funding:* 6/1/2012 through 5/31/2013. Authority: Title V, Section 501(a)(3) of the Social Security Act. Justification HRSA is extending funding for the ECCS grants by one year for the following reasons. MCHB has been working with leaders within HRSA involved in early childhood service systems, as well as with other early childhood experts and leaders in the field, to align its early childhood systems-building activities with early childhood investments within HRSA, including the MIECHV program, and with other Federal Government early childhood initiatives. HRSA/MCHB is focusing on the most efficient and effective use of funds to continue promoting coordinated, comprehensive early childhood systems and services for the Nation's children and families. HRSA's MIECHV program funds evidence-based home visiting programs in 54 States and jurisdictions. Research shows that the success of such home visiting programs is dependent upon the kind of sound infrastructure that ECCS promotes and sustains. To ensure coordinated and non-duplicative HRSA program planning, as well as future early childhood systems programming, it is crucial to sustain MCHB's current systems development efforts under ECCS for one additional year while the next early childhood systems program is developed with input from stakeholders. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Audrey Yowell, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 10-86, Rockville, Maryland 20857 or email *ayowell@hrsa.gov.* Dated: May 2, 2012. Mary K. Wakefield, Administrator. [FR Doc. 2012-11377 Filed 5-10-12; 8:45 am]