Funding-WIC BF Peer Counseling Curriculum Update and Training; August 20, 2010

Agency

Food and Nutrition Service

Description

The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) will fund a competitive cooperative agreement award of up to $350,000 in Fiscal Year 2010 to a qualified applicant to: (1) update two existing FNS breastfeeding peer counseling training curricula and (2) coordinate and conduct trainings, based on each of the updated curricula, in a, train-the-trainer format for WIC State agency staff in each of the seven FNS geographic regions. The existing FNS curricula to be updated;Using Loving Support to Manage Peer Counseling Programs for training WIC program managers and also; Loving Support Through Peer Counselor for training peer counselors can be found at: http://www.nal.usda.gov/wicworks/Learning_Center/support_peer.html.

Announcement Number: USDA-FNS-WICBF-10

Closing Date: Aug 20, 2010   

Link to Full Announcement

http://www.nal.usda.gov/wicworks/Learning_Center/support_peer.html

Contact Information

Carla Garcia
Grant Officer
Grant Officer