OpportunityTitle: Healthy Start Initiative: Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health (Border, Alaska, and Hawaii)
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: New applicants and existing competing continuation Healthy Start grantees whose project periods started on June 1, 2008 and will end on May 31, 2012.  Please see Section III of the FOA for eligibility details.
Description: Under this program, grants will address significant disparities in perinatal health indicators in communities within 62 miles of the U.S. Mexico border or in Alaska and Hawaii. Communities must provide a scope of project services that will cover pregnancy and interconceptional phases for women and infants residing in the proposed project area. Services are to be given to both mother and infant for two years following delivery to promote longer interconceptional periods and prevent relapses of unhealthy risk behaviors.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Contact HRSA Call Center at 877-Go4-HRSA/877-464-4772;301-998-7373 or email
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