Implementation Grant Research Articles

ILead with an EDI Lens

ABSTRACT This conceptual paper introduces the joint San José State University, School of Information and Simmons University, School of Library and Information Science, IMLS grant planning project: iLead: Preparing Tomorrow’s Library Leaders. During 2023–24, the grant team project members are designing an asynchronous online program where library employees may earn micro-credentials. The online program focuses on developing leadership skills with an equity, diversity, and inclusion lens. Contributions from national, state, and local library partners during the development of this curriculum will assist in applying for a future IMLS implementation grant. For more information on iLead: https://www.ileadedi.org/.

Multi-level alignment processes in the sustainment of a youth substance use treatment model following a federal implementation initiative: A mixed method study

IntroductionGovernment agencies have identified evidence-based practice (EBP) dissemination as a pathway to high-quality behavioral health care for youth. However, gaps remain about how to best sustain EBPs in treatment organizations in the U.S., especially in resource-constrained settings like publicly-funded youth substance use services. One important, but understudied, determinant of EBP sustainment is alignment: the extent to which multi-level factors that influence sustainment processes and outcomes are congruent, consistent, and/or coordinated. This study examined the role of alignment in U.S. states' efforts to sustain the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA), an EBP for youth substance use disorders, during the COVID-19 pandemic. MethodsIn this mixed methods study, the qualitative investigation preceded and informed the quantitative investigation. We interviewed state administrators and providers (i.e., supervisors and clinicians) from 15 states that had completed a federal A-CRA implementation grant; providers also completed surveys. The sample included 50 providers from 35 treatment organizations that reported sustaining A-CRA when the COVID-19 pandemic began, and 20 state administrators. In qualitative thematic analyses, we applied the EPIS (Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment) framework to characterize alignment processes that interviewees described as influential on sustainment. We then used survey items to quantitatively explore the associations described in qualitative themes, using bivariate linear regressions. ResultsAt the time of interview, staff from 80 % of the treatment organizations (n = 28), reported sustaining A-CRA. Providers from both sustainer and non-sustainer organizations, as well as state administrators, described major sources of misalignment when state agencies ceased technical assistance post-grant, and because limited staff capacity conflicted with A-CRA's training model, which was perceived as time-intensive. Participants described the pandemic as exacerbating preexisting challenges, including capacity issues. Sustainer organizations reported seeking new funding to help sustain A-CRA. Quantitative associations between self-rated extent of sustainment and other survey items mostly followed the pattern predicted from the qualitative findings. ConclusionsThe COVID-19 pandemic amplified longstanding A-CRA sustainment challenges, but treatment organizations already successfully sustaining A-CRA pre-pandemic largely continued. There are missed opportunities for state-level actors to coordinate with providers on the shared goal of EBP sustainment. A greater focus on alignment processes in research and practice could help states and providers strengthen sustainability planning.

Planting Seeds for Food Is Medicine: Pre-Implementation Planning Methods and Formative Evaluation Findings From a Multi-Clinic Initiative in the Midwest.

Food is medicine (FIM) initiatives are an emerging strategy for addressing nutrition-related health disparities increasingly endorsed by providers, payers, and policymakers. However, food insecurity screening protocols and oversight of medically-tailored food assistance programs are novel for many healthcare settings. Here, we describe the pre-implementation planning processes used to successfully engage federally-qualified health centers (FQHCs) across Kansas to develop new FIM initiatives. A Kansas-based philanthropic foundation facilitated pre-implementation planning for FQHCs over 17 months across 3 stages: 1) Community inquiry, 2) FIM learning event with invitation for FQHC attendees to request pre-implementation funding, and 3) Pre-implementation planning workshops and application assignments for FQHC grantees to develop a FIM implementation grant proposal. We evaluated satisfaction and perceived utility of these pre-implementation planning activities via post-workshop surveys and qualitative comparisons of FIM design components from pre-implementation and implementation grant applications. All 7 FQHCs attending the learning event applied for and were awarded pre-implementation planning grants; 6 submitted an implementation grant application following workshop completion. FQHCs rated pre-implementation support activities favorably; however, most clinics cited limited staff as a barrier to effective planning. As compared to pre-implementation planning grant proposals, all FQHCs elected to narrow their priority population to people with pre-diabetes or diabetes with better articulation of evidence-based nutrition prescriptions and intervention models in their final program designs. In the midst of a nationwide FIM groundswell, we recommend that funders, clinic stakeholders, and evaluators work together to devise and financially support appropriate pre-implementation planning activities prior to launching new FIM initiatives.

Eudora Welty Collection: Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Eudora Welty Collection:Mississippi Department of Archives and History Elisabeth Cambonga The materials transferred to the Archives and Records Services Division (A&RS) from the Museum Division since March 2011, along with those transferred to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) upon the settlement of Eudora Welty's estate, continue to be incorporated into the Eudora Welty Collection. Any newly acquired collections of Welty-related material not donated to MDAH by Eudora Welty or her heirs are established as collections unto themselves, in accordance with archival rules of provenance, and are not added to the Eudora Welty Collection proper. In 2019, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded an implementation grant to MDAH to support the preservation, digitization, and enhancement of access to the papers and photographs of Eudora Welty. The Eudora Welty Foundation matched MDAH's contribution to the grant. Although scheduled to be completed in May 2022, project revisions related to Covid-19 delayed progress and MDAH received a second grant extension from NEH. The project aimed to professionally conserve and scan selected items in the Eudora Welty Collection. The preparation and digitization of items necessitated the closure of selected series during scanning and quality control review. The grant was completed in January 2023 and can now be accessed via the digital archives on MDAH's website by visiting https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/welty. The Welty Family Papers, Series 45, has been processed and is open as of April 2022; a new subseries, the Garden Papers of Chestina Welty, will open in April 2023. Series 33, Works on Welty, was opened in January 2023, and Series 34, Dramatizations of Welty's Fiction, is scheduled to be opened in 2023. The preparation of items may necessitate the temporary closure of this series. [End Page 199] We suggest researchers contact MDAH, refdesk@mdah.ms.gov, to verify the availability of series that are of particular interest to them prior to visiting the archives. Researchers are invited to visit the MDAH website where the home page https://www.mdah.ms.gov/ features Welty information with some regularity and provides a portal to the online catalog where new series and series revisions may be posted. The A&RS division continues to use Koha, a recently updated open source system, for its online catalog. An instruction sheet, The Eudora Welty Collection: Collection Research and Access via the Online Catalog, has been prepared to aid researchers in readily locating catalog records for the Eudora Welty Collection and other Welty-related materials in the division's holdings. The instruction sheet now includes information on accessing the Eudora Welty Digital Archives and concludes with a current series list. Researchers interested in obtaining publication rights for, and/or reproductions of, material in the Eudora Welty Collection may benefit from information provided in The Eudora Welty Collection: Contacts for Use Permission and Reprographic Services. The 2023 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship co-sponsored by the Eudora Welty Foundation and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History will be awarded in April. On-site research at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building, supported by the stipend of $5,000, will be conducted during the summer. The 2022 Fellow was Pamela J. Merryman, a PhD candidate in Liberal Studies at Southern Methodist University. Ms. Forrest Galey, who served as the curator of the Eudora Welty Collection since 1997 retired in December 2022 after more than thirty-seven years of outstanding service to MDAH and the state of Mississippi. Galey joined MDAH in 1985 as an archivist and Graphic Records Collection curator of Special Collections. She then served as the Archival Program Supervisor and later as Special Projects Officer. In 2012, she received the Public Humanities Award for Special Recognition presented by the Mississippi Humanities Council. During her tenure, Galey was instrumental in the multi-year construction planning of the William F. Winter Archives & History Building and the move from the Charlotte Capers Building, the former home of the archives and library. Galey also led the grant project Sharing the Literary and Photographic Legacy of Eudora Welty, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Eudora Welty Foundation, and MDAH, involving the improved conservation and...

Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant Program (HUD)

Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant Program (HUD)

Doran Hrothgar Ross Scholar, Trickster, Connoisseur

Doran Hrothgar Ross Scholar, Trickster, Connoisseur

Tri-Co LIASE: Cross- and Intra-Institutional Collaboration to Build and Sustain Student-Focused Embedded Study in Asia

In this paper, Swarthmore College and Bryn Mawr College faculty and administrators share reflections on the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE) grants from the Henry Luce Foundation for the enhancement of curriculum on Asia and the environment and the cultivation of collaborations between US and Asian institutions. Supported by LIASE exploration grants in 2013 and a LIASE implementation grant awarded to the Tri-College Consortium of Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges in 2015, curricular innovations included the creation of courses with travel components and the introduction of topics on Asia and the environment across disciplines. Topics of discussion include fostering curricular innovation and interdisciplinarity across academic divisions; building effective and sustainable collaborations with local institutions in Asia; forging strategic partnerships with administrators in grants, advancement, and finance; leveraging institutional relationships to secure funding to pilot and sustain initiatives; and the importance of reciprocity in building long-term, cross-cultural exchanges.

Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant Program (HUD)

Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant Program (HUD)

Eudora Welty Foundation

Eudora Welty Foundation Jeanne B. Luckett Throughout 2019, the Eudora Welty Foundation coordinated and produced inspiring and educational programs and events and funded research endeavors to support the preservation and appreciation of the gifts of Eudora Welty—her literary and photographic treasures as well as the Eudora Welty House and Garden and the Welty Collection at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Scholars, writers, students, and the general public benefit from the work of the Foundation. Many activities are carried out in collaboration with cosponsors and partners. NEH Grant Supports MDAH Welty Collection Digitization In April 2019, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) received a $217,982 implementation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to preserve, digitize, and enhance access to the papers in its Eudora Welty Collection. The Welty Foundation is providing the MDAH required matching contribution for the grant. The two-year project is conserving 60 items and compiling metadata for more than 19,800 scans of items in the collection. Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and sound recordings are being digitized. An online catalog will be created to facilitate research in these materials. Beginning in 1957 and for over more than 40 years, Welty donated materials to MDAH, mainly manuscripts and photographs. After her death in 2001, the remainder of her papers, including unpublished manuscripts and 14,000 items of correspondence were bequeathed to the agency. These materials are the premier collection of Welty materials in the world. Poet Natasha Trethewey Offers 2019 Bettye Jolly Lecture Pulitzer Prize-winner and two-time Poet Laureate of the United States Natasha Trethewey delivered the 2019 Bettye Jolly Lecture to an overflow crowd at the Welty House and Garden on March 8. She spoke about her craft and her life and read from her latest book, Monument, which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award. A Mississippi native, Trethewey [End Page 209] is Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Trethewey answered questions from the audience and was engaged in conversation by Welty scholar Suzanne Marrs, who also introduced her. Marrs asked Trethewey to discuss her experience writing the foreword for the revised publication of Eudora Welty's Photographs, (UP of Mississippi), which was released the following month. The author of five poetry collections and a memoir, Trethewey was the 2012–16 Poet Laureate of Mississippi. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013 and received the Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities in 2017. In 2018, Trethewey traveled across the nation for the PBS "NewsHour" series "Where Poetry Lives." The endowed Bettye Jolly Lecture honors the late Bettye Jolly, a longtime volunteer and supporter of the Eudora Welty House and Garden. Contributions may be made to the Bettye Jolly Lecture through the Eudora Welty Foundation. The lecture was founded by a book club which grew out of a Millsaps Great Topics Seminar taught by Marrs. Jolly was a dedicated member of the book club. Past lecturers have been Lee Smith, Rosanna Warren, Beth Henley, and Alice McDermott. The 2020 Lecture will be delivered by poet, short story writer, and novelist Ron Rash (postponed until further notice). Revised Welty's Photographs Released on Thirtieth Anniversary On April 13, 2019, 30 years to the date of the book's first release and Eudora's 110th birthday, a new revised edition of Eudora Welty Photographs, published by University Press of Mississippi, was celebrated at the Eudora Welty House and Garden. In hardback again for the first time in 30 years, the book also includes 16 photographs not included in the original publication. The Foundation-sponsored event featured a panel discussion moderated by Welty friend and biographer Suzanne Marrs. Panelists were Holmes Adams, Welty Foundation Board Chair; Seetha Srinivasan, director of University Press of Mississippi when the first Photographs was published; Craig Gill, current director of University Press; and Mary Alice Welty White, Eudora's niece, first director of the Welty House, and Foundation board secretary. A special feature of the program was a video interview with Eudora conducted by noted journalist and Welty friend Roger Mudd about the book's [End Page 210] first publication, broadcast on the...

Greening Atomic Bomb Survivor Trees: Ecological Literacy and ENGOs as LIASE Institutional Partners

This article considers Oberlin College’s collaboration with an environmental non-governmental organization (ENGO) in Japan, centering on projects designed to strengthen ecological literacy in the college curriculum, and in the community outreach component of a LIASE implementation grant. The NGO, Green Legacy Hiroshima, exists to “safeguard and spread worldwide the seeds and saplings of Hiroshima’s A-bomb survivor trees” (被爆樹木, hibaku jumoku in Japanese). Trees, however, tell only so much of their own stories. Oberlin’s LIASE team developed course units, community outreach initiatives, and supplementary materials in order to encourage knowledge about the social, historical, and ecological aspects of the environmental issues that trees face in wartime and the nuclear age. Curricular and community engagement distinguishes the Green Legacy Project from token tree planting.

Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant Program (HUD)

Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant Program (HUD)

Adam Walsh Act Implementation Grant Program (DOJ)

Federal Grants & ContractsVolume 43, Issue 7 p. 5-5 Grant Alerts Adam Walsh Act Implementation Grant Program (DOJ) First published: 06 March 2019 https://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.30307Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume43, Issue77 March 2019Pages 5-5 RelatedInformation

Economic Analysis of Local Food Procurement in Southwest Florida's Farm to School Programs

Farm-to-school (F2S) programs aim to educate people about food and farming, to increase the availability of fresh, nutritious foods, and to improve health outcomes among children. Nationally, all states have school districts that self-identify as farm-to-school program participants. National and regional food procurement systems account for the majority of food purchased by National School Lunch Program participants, but school foodservice authorities (SFA) who purchase food from farmers often do so in the context of strengthening their farm-to-school program (U.S. Department of Agriculture [USDA], n.d.-b). A greater number of local supply chain participants benefit when food is sourced in state (locally) rather than out-of-state because more money ends up in the pockets of local producers and distribu­tors. Local fruit and vegetable producers and SFAs interested in developing business partnerships for local procurement would benefit from recommen­dations on menu-appropriate fresh market prod­ucts, volume, and purchase prices. However, detailed data sets from SFAs are uncommon, limiting opportunities to advance procurement efforts. The objective for this project was to begin developing local procurement recommendations for other Florida school districts based on the purchasing history and experiences of the Sarasota County School District (SCSD). In 2014, Sarasota County, Florida, received a USDA F2S implementation grant, affording it the opportunity to develop its local procurement efforts. One deliverable from that project was a robust data set of school food purchases over a two-year period. With permission SCSD, we analyzed seasonal purchase variations and market prices of local and out-of-state fresh fruits, vege­tables, and egg purchases for 38 public schools in the SCSD. In this paper, we present an approach to estimate the potential of local procurement viability in the context of an emerging districtwide F2S program and recommend system changes based on the success of procurement efforts in SCSD and surrounding school districts in Southwest Florida.

Pengembangan Tortilla dan Biskuit Jagung Sebagai Produk Unggulan Desa Campor dan Sambiyan Kecamatan Konang Kabupaten Bangkalan Madura

Campor and Sambiyan village in Konang district had lime soil structure with sandy clay texture, so in thewinter the soil was sticky. The occupation of most people there were farming, animal, husbandary and fishing. One of theconsidered food agricultural crop of Campor and sambiyan village was corn plant. It was needed a social serviceProgram, such as RISMA (Research Result Implementation Grant for society) based on corn processing productinovation as famous product in Campor and Sambiyan vilage. The aim of this program was to improve people knowledgeand skill of corn flour processing into corn processing product (such as tortilla and corn biscuit) and to introduce properpackaging method and product marketing in accordance with corn processing development to increase people income.Monitoring and evaluation showed that the participants could do inovation on basic formulation by adding ingredients toenhance the product flavor and cryspines, packed and sold the products in smale scale marketing

Implementation and Impacts of Intergovernmental Grant Programs on Energy Efficiency in the USA

We review recent studies on intergovernmental grants for energy efficiency in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)’s clean energy package, which has been the biggest federal investment in the energy sector over the past few decades. Our review provides a holistic picture of the implementation process of ARRA’s energy intergovernmental grants and their impacts on energy efficiency. State and local governments experienced challenges on implementing their grant programs efficiently. The implementation delay was affected by recipient administrative capacity, political support, use of contractors, and red tape in grant compliance. Existing evaluation studies are mostly conducted for two programs that subsidize the weatherization of low-income homes and the purchase of Energy Star appliances. The impacts of these programs on energy efficiency adoption and energy savings vary across jurisdictions. However, low participation and marginal energy savings are reported as common issues, which might be related to program designs and implementation. There has been a lack of integration between implementation studies and grant program evaluation. To better inform energy efficiency intergovernmental grant design, further research is needed to understand the link between program design, implementation, and program effectiveness. In addition, rigorous evaluation regarding other outcome metrics, such as energy efficiency, technology innovation, and green jobs, are desirable.

Concocting that Magic Elixir: Successful Grant Application Writing in Dissemination and Implementation Research.

This paper reports core competencies for dissemination and implementation (D&I) grant application writing and provides tips for writing a successful proposal. Two related phases were used to collect the data: a card sorting process among D&I researchers and an expert review among a smaller set of researchers. Card sorting was completed by 123 respondents. In the second phase, a series of grant application writing tips were developed based on the combined 170 years of grant review experience of the writing team. The card sorting resulted in 12 core competencies for D&I grant application writing that covered the main sections in a grant application to the US National Institutes of Health: (a) specific aims that provide clear rationale, objectives, and an overview of the research plan; (b) significance that frames and justifies the importance of a D&I question; (c) innovation that articulates novel products and new knowledge; and (d) approach that uses a relevant D&I model, addresses measurement and the D&I context, and includes an analysis plan well-tied to the aims and measures. Writing a successful D&I grant application is a skill that can be learned with experience and attention to the core competencies articulated in this paper.

Evaluation of the Blood Lead Screening Component of the Southern Nevada Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program.

While public health programs and policies have worked to reduce lead exposure, lead poisoning remains a major preventable public health concern in the United States. In Clark County, Nevada, blood lead level (BLL) screening has historically been sparse. Thus, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of the Southern Nevada Childhood Lead Poisoning & Prevention Program (CLPPP) in increasing screening efforts and identifying children with elevated blood lead levels (EBLLs). The proportion of children screened after the implementation of the CLPPP and the number of children identified with detectable BLLs. A total of 43 028 BLL results for children younger than 6 years were assessed from 2006 to 2011. More than 19% of children tested during the project period had a detectable BLL. The number of BLL tests for children younger than 6 years increased from 4180 in 2005-2006 to 9304 in just the second year of CLPPP implementation. Once the initial implementation grant was over and additional funding was unavailable, the BLL screening once again declined to 5541 in 2016-2017. Evaluation of CLPPP activities suggests that outreach and education efforts, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, played a significant role in increasing blood lead screening in Southern Nevada. However, despite these efforts, less than 5% of all children younger than 6 years were screened, which has declined further after the end of federal support.

A Multi-Institutional Medical Educational Collaborative

Educational collaboratives offer a promising approach to disseminate educational resources and provide faculty development to advance residents' training, especially in areas of novel curricular content; however, their impact has not been clearly described. Advocacy training is a recently mandated requirement of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education that many programs struggle to meet.The authors describe the formation (in 2007) and impact (from 2008 to 2010) of 13 California pediatric residency programs working in an educational collaboration ("the Collaborative") to improve advocacy training. The Collaborative defined an overarching mission, assessed the needs of the programs, and mapped their strengths. The infrastructure required to build the collaboration among programs included a social networking site, frequent conference calls, and face-to-face semiannual meetings. An evaluation of the Collaborative's activities showed that programs demonstrated increased uptake of curricular components and an increase in advocacy activities. The themes extracted from semistructured interviews of lead faculty at each program revealed that the Collaborative (1) reduced faculty isolation, increased motivation, and strengthened faculty academic development, (2) enhanced identification of curricular areas of weakness and provided curricular development from new resources, (3) helped to address barriers of limited resident time and program resources, and (4) sustained the Collaborative's impact even after formal funding of the program had ceased through curricular enhancement, the need for further resources, and a shared desire to expand the collaborative network.

Sidebar: The Cabarrus Health Alliance’s Healthy Lives, Healthy Futures Program

NCMJ vol. 73, no. 6 ncmedicaljournal.com diseases. The national smoking rate is 19%, and only 23% of individuals seeking to quit receive support and services, so there is a need for community interventions to address tobacco dependence [9]. The CDC campaign is implemented, in part, through the awarding of Community Transformation Grants made available by the Affordable Care Act. These grants have 3 objectives: to improve health, to reduce disparities across populations, and to control spending through a sound investment in continued health. To date, more than $103 million in federal monies has been awarded to 61 recipient organizations nationwide [10]. North Carolina, through its Division of Public Health, is one of 10 states to receive an implementation grant to address chronic disease statewide. The first phase of this 3-year award (amounting to nearly $7.5 million) focuses on the defense of the 2009 law banning smoking in restaurants and bars and on the implementation of local ordinances promoting tobacco-free public places and worksites [11]. The Cabarrus Health Alliance’s Healthy Lives, Healthy Futures Program

What Does It Mean to “Employ” the RE-AIM Model?

Many grant proposals identify the use of a given evaluation model or framework but offer little about how such models are implemented. The authors discuss what it means to employ a specific model, RE-AIM, and key dimensions from this model for program planning, implementation, evaluation, and reporting. The authors report both conceptual and content specifications for the use of the RE-AIM model and a content review of 42 recent dissemination and implementation grant applications to National Institutes of Health that proposed the use of this model. Outcomes include the extent to which proposals addressed the overall RE-AIM model and specific items within the five dimensions in their methods or evaluation plans. The majority of grants used only some elements of the model (less than 10% contained thorough measures across all RE-AIM dimensions). Few met criteria for "fully developed use" of RE-AIM and the percentage of key issues addressed varied from, on average, 45% to 78% across the RE-AIM dimensions. The results and discussion of key criteria should help investigators in their use of RE-AIM and illuminate the broader issue of comprehensive use of evaluation models.