Every Woman Southeast

1. Every Woman Southeast REPRODUCTIVE LIFE PLANNING COMMUNITY GRANTS Request for Applications Key Information & FAQs

2. What is Every Woman Southeast? • A coalition of leaders in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee to build multi-state, multi-layered partnerships to improve the health of women and infants in the Southeast.

3. Every Woman Southeast Objectives • Engage a wide range of stakeholders to develop the political will needed to build and sustain an equity focused, life course approach to MCH and preconception health. • Rethink and integrate program and policy strategies to support low income women and men in creating and actualizing their plans for a family

4. Reproductive Life Planning Community Grants GOAL To identify and fund innovative community-based initiatives that seek to work with traditional and non-traditional partners to improve women and men’s capacity to plan childbearing and improve preconception and interconception health using a life course approach.

5. What are we looking for? • Projects that take an innovative approach to increasing reproductive life planning (RLP) among young men and women in their community. • Projects will convene a diverse committee / workgroup and increase awareness in their communities about LC and RLP. • They will target populations with the highest risk for unintended pregnancy. • Projects may be an expansion of an existing program or completely new. • Grantees must be willing to participate in monthly calls with project leaders from other sites and help develop an implementation tool kit.

6. Dates and Deadlines • Applications Due: August 31, 2012 to Erin McClain at erin_mcclain@unc.edu • Number of Anticipated Grants: 8 with the goal to have one in each state (AL, GA, FL, KY, MS, NS, SC, and TN) • Anticipated Start Date: October 1, 2012 • Anticipated End Date: December 31, 2013 • Maximum Award Amount: $43,500 over a 15 month grant period

7. Who is Eligible to Apply? • Organizations that reside in communities in the 8 states of US DHHS Region IV: • Alabama • Georgia • Florida • Kentucky • Mississippi • North Carolina • South Carolina • Tennessee

8. Are there requirements for the teams? • Yes, applicants must show an interdisciplinary team that includes at least one “non-health sector” entity, such as representatives from: • Business community • Housing • Employment • Education • Faith community • Others - this list is not exhaustive

9. Can our proposal be based on an existing program? • Yes, this is acceptable as long as you demonstrate expanded partnerships and an innovative approach

10. What resources will be available to grantees? • Support from EWSE staff and leadership, including help with planning, evaluation and technical assistance • Opportunity to network with other grantees and the larger EWSE coalition to share ideas • Access to tools, webinars and learning opportunities with experts in life course and preconception health

11. Where can I get more info about Life Course, Preconception Health, or Reproductive Life Planning? • There are a variety of resources available on these topics. Some are listed here. Others are available on the Every Woman Southeast website.

12. www.EveryWomanSoutheast.org

13. http://mchb.hrsa.gov/lifecourseapproach.html

14. Example of Resources Available CityMatCHToolbox

15. Play the Game! The Life Course Game is available through CityMatCH

16. AMCHP Life Course Resource Center http://www.amchp.org/programsandtopics/LifeCourse

17. NEW CDC Webpage Info for Men RLP Tools Free materials

18. http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/data/RNDMU/index.html

19. Who can I contact with additional questions? Erin McClain, MA, MPH Pilot Project Coordinator erin_mcclain@unc.edu or 919-808-0989