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> TO: Extension Directors/ Administrators
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> FROM: Linda Kay Benning, Assistant Director
> Extension and Outreach
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> SUBJECT: Federal Register Opportunities -- June 1 - 15, 1996
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> 1. Department of Health and Human Services; Request for
> Applications Under the Office of Community Services' Fiscal Year
> 1996 Job Opportunities for Low-Income Individuals Program
> (Demonstration Projects). 6-3-96; pps. 27950-27976. Closing
> date is August 2, 1996. Contact is Nolan Lewis at 202/401-5282.
> Approximately $5 million is available in FY96 dollars for
> new grants (maximum $500,000) for the purpose of conducting
> demonstration projects to create employment and business
> opportunities for certain low-income individuals.
> NOTE: If you are working in the area of welfare reform, this
> may be of interest to you. The target audience is AFDC families.
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> 2. Department of Health and Human Services; Administration for
> Children and Families; National Institute for Occupational Safety
> and Health; Community Partners for Healthy Farming. 6-6-96; pps.
> 28867-28872. Closing date is July 10, 1996. Contact is Oppie
> Byrd at 404/842-6546.
> Approximately $1.6 million is available to fund
> approximately 9 -16 awards for cooperative agreements for the
> Community Partners for Healthy Farming, a program with a dual
> purpose: to conduct community-based and action-oriented health
> and safety surveillance and to pilot and evaluate interventions
> that can reduce or prevent work related injuries and illnesses in
> farm workers and their families.
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> 3. Centers for Disease Control; Development and Feasibility
> Testing of Interventions to Increase Health-Seeking Behaviors in,
> and Health Care for, Populations at High Risk for Gonorrhea. 6-10-96; pps.
> 29386-29389. Closing date is August 5, 1996.
> Contact is Kimberly Body at 404/842-6592.
> Approximately $1 million is available to fund approximately
> 5 awards in a cooperative agreement program to conduct research
> to: a) identify factors at the client, provider, and systems
> levels that influence the health-seeking behaviors of, and health
> services for, populations at high risk of transmitting and
> acquiring gonorrhea; b) use the above information to develop and
> test interventions to increase health care seeking and improve
> health care; and c) develop interdisciplinary approaches and
> augment a behavioral research infrastructure related to sexually
> transmitted diseases.
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> 4. Centers for Disease Control; Replication of Effective HIV
> Behavioral Interventions. 6-10-96; pps. 29392-29396. Closing
> date is August 15, 1995. Contact is 404/332-4561.
> Approximately $600,000 is available to conduct follow-up or
> secondary analysis of data from HIV behavioral intervention
> research studies.
> 5. Centers for Disease Control; Health Promotion Disease
> Prevention Research Center for Teen Pregnancy Prevention. 6-10-96; pps.
> 29396-29398. Closing date is July 15, 1996. Contact is
> Glynnis D. Taylor at 404/842-6508.
> Approximately $375,000 is available for one cooperative
> agreement program for a Health Promotion Disease Prevention
> Research Center to address teenage pregnancy prevention.
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> 6. Department of Agriculture; Rural Business-Cooperative
> Service; National Sheep Industry Improvement Center; Solicitation
> of Nominations of Board Members. 6-10-96; p. 29340.
> The Rural Business-Cooperative Service announces that it is
> accepting nominations for the Board of the National Sheep
> Industry Improvement Center. Board members shall manage and
> oversee the Center's activities.
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> 7. Department of Agriculture; Rural Business-Cooperative;
> Inviting Preapplications for Technical Assistance for Rural
> Transportation Systems. 6-10-96; pps. 29340-29342. Closing date
> is for preapplication is July 1, 1996. Contact is Rural
> Development State Offices (list included) or Carole S. Boyko at
> 202/720-1400.
> Approximately $500,000 is available in competing Rural
> Business Enterprise Grant funds for technical assistance for
> rural transportation systems. The funds are designed to assist
> public bodies and private nonprofit corporations serving rural
> areas in providing technical assistance for planning and
> developing transportation systems, and for training for rural
> communities needing improved passenger transportation systems or
> facilities in order to promote economic development through a
> link between transportation and economic development initiatives.
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> 8. Department of Commerce; Economic Development Administration;
> Economic Development Assistance Programs; Availability of Funds.
> 6-11-96; pps. 29526-29529. Contact is your area EDA office.
> Approximately $227 million is available in seven areas,
> including "University Centers" to support projects designed to
> alleviate conditions of substantial and persistent unemployment
> and underemployment in economically-distressed areas and regions
> of the Nation, to address economic dislocations resulting from
> sudden and severe job losses, and to administer the Agency's
> programs.
> NOTE: This may be an opportunity to partner.
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> 9. National Institute for Literacy; Notice Inviting Applications
> for the Literacy Leader Fellowship Program. 6-11-96; pps. 29575-29577. Closing
> date is August 1, 1996. Contact is Alice Johnson
> at 202/632-1516.
> Approximately $105,000 is available to establish the
> Literacy Fellows Program to provide federal financial assistance
> to individuals pursuing careers in adult education or literacy in
> the areas of instruction, management, research, or innovation and
> adult new learners.
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> 10. Department of Education; Even Start Family Literacy Program;
> Women's Prison Project; Notice of Inviting applications for a New
> Award with Fiscal Year 1995 Funds. 6-12-96; pps. 29904-29907.
> Closing date is 4:30 p.m. on August 7, 1996. Contact is Patricia
> McKee at 202/260-0991.
> Approximately $200,000 is available for the Even Start
> Family Literacy Program Women's Prison grant to help break the
> cycle of poverty and illiteracy and improve the educational
> opportunities of low-income families with mothers in prison by
> integrating early childhood education, adult literacy or adult
> basic education, and parenting education into a unified family
> literacy program of high quality.
> NOTE: This may be of interest to those already doing
> extension programming with the prison community.
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> 11. Department of Housing and Urban Development; Office of the
> Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing; Public and
> Indian Housing Youth Sports Program; Announcement of Non-funding
> for FY1996. 6-12-96; p. 29884. Contact is Marvin Klepper at
> 202/708-1197.
> This notice announces HUD will not fund the Youth Sports
> Program for FY1996 and corrects a funding error from the FY1994
> Youth Sports competition.
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