OpportunityTitle: Creating Nature Champions among Healthcare Providers: Connecting Children with Nature for Better Health
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: The USFWS is not seeking applications.  The USFWS plans to award this cooperative agreement under the Department Manual 505 &#150; 2, using the following criteria to justify a single source award. &#150; 2.14 B (1) and (4) to the National Environmental Education Foundation.    2.14 B (1) Unsolicited proposal &#150; The proposal award is the result of an unsolicited assistance application which represents a unique or innovative idea, method, or approach which is not the subject of a current or planned contract or assistant award but which is deemed advantageous to the program objectives.    The USFWS&#146;s Connecting People with Nature Priority has a core need of connecting with the health community and working closely with a conservation partner that has a long established partnership with the USFWS and the USFWS&#146;s National Conservation Training Center, and has already began to build resources for healthcare provider trainings.  The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF)has done so.      2.14 B (4) Unique Qualifications &#150; The applicant is uniquely qualified to perform the activity based upon a variety of demonstrable factors such as: a location, property ownership, voluntary support capacity, cost-sharing ability, if applicable, technical expertise, or other such unique qualifications:     The National Environmental Education Foundation has a train-the-trainer mechanism for working with the unique target audience, has an established Advisory Committee of experts from major medical institutions and leaders in environmental education already in place to guide the project and an infrastructure to ensure evaluation of this unique training.  They have also committed funds to the project.
Description: Funding description: The funding for Creating Nature Champions among Healthcare Providers: connecting Children with Nature for Better Health will link two issues: rising childhood health concerns and the need to reconnect children to nature. The primary goals are to mount a campaign to train and support key Pediatric Healthcare Providers to &#147;prescribe&#148; outdoor time for children in order to help address childhood health problems and to link this advice to nature programming on public lands.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Georgia_Jeppesen@fws.gov
GrantorContactText: Georgia Jeppesen &lt;br/&gt;Branch Chief, Program Support &lt;br/&gt;Phone 304-876-7388