Funding-ACF - Early
Head Start University Partnerships: Building the Evidence Base for
Infant/Toddler Center-based Programs; July 6, 2015
Agency
Department
of Health and Human Services
Administration for Children and Families - OPRE
Description
The
Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), within the Department of
Health and Human Services' (HHS) Administration for Children and Families
(ACF), is soliciting applications for Early Head Start University Partnerships:
Building the Evidence Base for Infant/Toddler Center-based Programs to support
projects that will contribute understanding and knowledge of how Early Head
Start and other early care and education programs can promote and improve early
child development by supporting parents and teachers. This grant program seeks
to stimulate systematic, programmatic, multidisciplinary research to develop
and test models of integrated interventions targeted at parents and teachers to
promote infant and toddler development across multiple domains including
cognitive, language, and social-emotional/behavioral development. It is
expected that research studies and programs stimulated by this initiative will
contribute scientific data that inform a number of practice and policy issues.
Projects must be led by researchers working in partnership with one or more
Early Head Start programs. Together, they will identify, implement, and examine
integrated promising parenting and teaching intervention models. Integrated
interventions are defined as those that target the child’s parent or primary
caregiver in addition to center-based teachers as a means of achieving child
development goals. Applicants are encouraged to consider the applicability of
their intervention models to other early care and education settings,
particularly within the context of Child Care and Early Head Start-Child Care
Partnership programs. Evaluation activities will include an implementation
study as well as a rigorous test of the effectiveness of the intervention in
one or more settings. Results of these studies are expected to provide valuable
information that can help guide programs in their decisions regarding
interventions to promote and improve early child development. Grantees are
expected to participate in a consortium of grantees, meeting annually and
communicating regularly to share lessons learned, identify opportunities for
collaborative analyses, and to develop collective expertise and resources to be
shared with the field at large.
Announcement
Number:
HHS-2015-ACF-OPRE-YR-1010
Closing
Date:
Jul
6, 2015
Link
to Full Announcement
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276334
Contact
Information
Kathleen Dwyer
(202) 401-5600