Announcement of Anticipated Availability of Funds for Family Planning Services Grants - Vermont (entire State) | PA FPH 16 004

Opportunity Information: Apply for PA FPH 16 004

This funding opportunity, titled "Announcement of Anticipated Availability of Funds for Family Planning Services Grants - Vermont (entire State)" (Funding Opportunity Number: PA FPH 16 004), is a discretionary federal grant competition administered by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health under the Title X Family Planning Program (CFDA 93.217). It is designed to support the establishment and operation of voluntary family planning projects that deliver services across the entire state of Vermont. The central purpose is to ensure that anyone who wants family planning services can access them, while giving clear priority to reaching individuals from low-income families.

Eligible applicants include public and private nonprofit entities, with the Title X statute explicitly allowing local and regional public or private nonprofits to apply directly to the Secretary for a Title X family planning services grant. The program expects applicants to be capable of managing a statewide service area, either by providing services themselves or by coordinating a network of providers. Applications that plan to rely on other organizations to deliver services are still eligible, but they will be evaluated partly on how convincingly the applicant demonstrates it can ensure required services are delivered effectively and equitably throughout Vermont, especially for people with the greatest need.

A key expectation in this announcement is accountability for service delivery when not all services are provided directly by the applicant. If an applicant intends to use partner organizations or contractors to deliver any portion of the services, the application must clearly document the process it will use to offer subawards to qualified entities that are eligible to receive federal funds. In other words, applicants need to show a transparent, workable approach for building and maintaining a provider network that can cover the full service area and meet the needs of the intended beneficiaries, rather than simply assuming services will be available through informal arrangements.

The scope of supported services includes clinical family planning services and related preventive health services, along with information, education, and counseling connected to family planning. The program also includes referral services as appropriate, recognizing that patients may need connections to additional medical or supportive services beyond what a Title X clinic directly provides. While the announcement does not list every covered clinical service in the text provided, it emphasizes that the project must be organized around the Title X definition of family planning services and the broader expectation that projects deliver high-quality, client-centered care and education.

Applicants are directed to build their proposals using the full set of governing and guiding materials for Title X, including the Title X statute, applicable federal regulations, legislative mandates, the Title X Program Guidelines (2014), and Office of Population Affairs (OPA) Program Policy Notices, as well as program priorities and other key issues referenced in the announcement and application package. This means the application is expected to align not only with the general idea of family planning access, but also with the specific compliance, reporting, quality, and program integrity requirements that come with Title X funding.

Administratively, the opportunity was created on 2015-10-22 and had an original application closing date of 2016-01-11. The funding instrument is a grant, and the listed award ceiling is $781,000. The posting also notes "Expected Awards: 35," which is a standard field in many grant listings; however, the opportunity title and description are framed around Vermont as the service area, so applicants generally should focus on demonstrating statewide coverage and capacity rather than assuming a large number of awards within a single state competition.

• The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Announcement of Anticipated Availability of Funds for Family Planning Services Grants - Vermont (entire State)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.217.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2015-10-22.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2016-01-11. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $781,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 35 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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