Opportunity Information: Apply for WH HPP 12 001
Apply for WH HPP 12 001
- The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY12 Request for Applications for the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Support Services for Women Partners of Incarcerated/Recently Released Men" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.015 HIV Prevention Programs for Women.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 9, 2012 and posted on May 9, 2012.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 11, 2012 Refer to the grant announcement regarding application submission requirements, dates and times.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $150,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 8 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
- Eligible Applicants must meet all of the following criteria. 1. Organizations located in locations with high HIV prevalence among women 2. Locations near correctional facilities and incarcerated populations and 3. Organizations indicating history of serving African American women, Hispanic women, substance abusing women, formerly incarcerated women, and women living with HIV/AIDS or whose lifestyles place them at high risk for HIV/STD infection. Eligible entities may include non profit community based organizations, faith based organizations, national organizations, colleges and universities, clinics and hospitals, research institutions, State and local government agencies, tribal government agencies and tribal/urban Indian organizations.
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Opportunity Summary:
The FY12 Request for Applications for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Support Services for Women Partners of Incarcerated/Recently Released Men (Funding Opportunity No. WH-HPP-12-001) is a discretionary federal funding opportunity offered as a cooperative agreement through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health. Its central aim is to build and test a gender-specific, peer-led HIV prevention education effort focused on women who are intimate partners of incarcerated or recently released men, a group that can face elevated HIV/STD vulnerability due to overlapping factors like incarceration-related relationship disruption, economic instability, partner concurrency, and limited access to consistent health and social services. The program frames womens health broadly across the life course, emphasizing that effective HIV prevention must reflect the realities of womens lives, including mental, dental, and physical health, caregiving responsibilities, relationship dynamics, and the social conditions that shape risk.
Program design is expected to combine two tightly linked pieces: (1) a culturally, linguistically, and developmentally appropriate peer education intervention that delivers accurate HIV/STD prevention and wellness information, and (2) a coordinated local coalition that improves transition and support services for women partners and their families. The prevention component must be gender responsive and multi-session, and it should acknowledge both protective strengths (traditional and extended family support, community coping practices, subcultural influences) and common barriers tied to poverty and incarceration. In parallel, the coalition component is meant to ensure women and their families can actually access the wraparound supports that often determine whether prevention messages translate into safer choices, stable living situations, and sustained engagement in care.
The opportunity lays out clear objectives: increase the number of women partners reached with gender-specific prevention education; recruit, educate, and train women partners as peer educators; expand community linkages and referral networks that connect women partners, incarcerated/recently released men, and children to both healthcare and social services; and increase voluntary HIV/STD testing among women partners. Rather than treating education, testing, and social support as separate activities, the grant is structured to push applicants to integrate them so women can move from outreach, to group intervention participation, to testing, and then to appropriate medical care and supportive services if needed.
Applicants are required to ground their local approach in data. Grantees must review city/county/state data on HIV incidence among women and male prison populations and analyze local challenges and trends that increase risk for women partners, using sources such as U.S. Census demographics and public health surveillance (CDC reports, National Center for Health Statistics, and similar data systems). Using that local picture, the funded organization must then develop an outreach model for identifying women partners (including, but not limited to, visiting and waiting areas in correctional facilities and family assistance organizations serving families of incarcerated people) and facilitate group interventions that provide HIV/STD prevention education and broader wellness content.
A major expectation is the use of an evidence-based, gender-specific prevention intervention delivered in multiple sessions. The funded intervention should directly address vulnerabilities and high-risk dynamics commonly experienced by women partners connected to incarceration, such as negotiating safer sex, assertiveness, harm and risk reduction, depression and isolation, intimate partner violence and sexual assault, substance use, childcare and transportation barriers, confidentiality and coercion concerns, poverty and financial dependency, low literacy, and the social acceptability of concurrent partnerships. Applicants must provide a complete curriculum package, including session topics and content, a facilitators guide, participant workbook materials, evaluation forms, and pre/post instruments. They also need to spell out the intervention format in practical terms (number of sessions, length, overall timeline) and describe the instructional strategies they will use (interactive exercises, facilitated discussion, lectures, videos, involvement of community peers, and similar methods). CDC-endorsed interventions (often referred to as DEBIs) can be used and adapted, as long as the core logic that drives effectiveness is preserved.
On the service side, grantees must coordinate HIV counseling and testing for women with unknown HIV status and ensure strong linkage to medical care and other supports for women who test positive. The coalition-building requirement is formal: applicants must establish partnerships and document them through Memoranda of Understanding on partner letterhead. The partnership network is expected to be broad and functional, potentially including tribal entities, state and local health departments, healthcare providers, social services, small businesses, substance use treatment programs, domestic violence shelters, and community and faith-based organizations. The intent is to create dependable referral pathways for HIV testing, counseling, well-woman screenings, and the practical supports that stabilize peoples lives, such as housing, employment assistance, vocational training, entitlement enrollment, case management, family counseling, parenting skills development, and life-skills building.
Accountability and learning are also central. Grantees must submit regular reports documenting outreach, recruitment, participation, and retention, with attention to implementation realities affecting women partners. They must conduct a local evaluation using shared indicators and performance metrics in collaboration with other funded Women Partner sites, and they must plan explicitly for sustainability beyond the period of OWH funding. Knowledge sharing is required as well: funded sites must produce at least two conference abstracts and draft one white paper for OWH and other federal partners, highlighting lessons learned, best practices, and recommended next steps, with a timeline for these dissemination products included in early progress reporting. Staff capacity-building is built into the program expectations, including participation in womens health and HIV-related trainings (with an emphasis on gender-responsive programming) and attendance at least one national, regional, or state HIV/AIDS conference, while staying current on evolving HIV prevention strategies and guidance from CDC, HRSA, and other experts.
Funding details are straightforward. The program anticipated up to 8 awards, with an award floor and ceiling of $150,000 (meaning each award is $150,000), and it does not require cost sharing or matching. The CFDA number listed is 93.015 (HIV Prevention Programs for Women). The application window for this FY12 posting opened May 9, 2012 and closed June 11, 2012, with an archive date of July 11, 2012.
Eligibility is targeted to organizations positioned to reach women most affected. Applicants must be located in areas with high HIV prevalence among women, near correctional facilities and incarcerated populations, and must show a history of serving populations including African American women, Hispanic women, substance-using women, formerly incarcerated women, and women living with HIV/AIDS or at high risk for HIV/STD infection. Eligible entity types are broad and include nonprofit community-based and faith-based organizations, national organizations, colleges and universities, clinics and hospitals, research institutions, state and local government agencies, tribal government agencies, and tribal/urban Indian organizations. Overall, the opportunity is designed for organizations that can combine trusted community relationships, structured evidence-based prevention programming, and strong cross-sector coordination to reduce HIV risk and improve stability for women partners and their families impacted by incarceration.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What is this funding opportunity?
This is the FY12 Request for Applications (RFA) for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Support Services for Women Partners of Incarcerated/Recently Released Men (Funding Opportunity No. WH-HPP-12-001). It is a discretionary federal funding opportunity offered as a cooperative agreement through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health.
What is the main purpose of the program?
The purpose is to build and test a gender-specific, peer-led HIV prevention education effort for women who are intimate partners of incarcerated or recently released men. The program also emphasizes coordinated supports so prevention education is reinforced by real access to health care and social services.
Who is the program intended to serve?
The primary target population is women who are intimate partners of incarcerated or recently released men. The opportunity also recognizes the broader family context, including children and the transition needs connected to incarceration and re-entry.
Why does the program focus on women partners of incarcerated or recently released men?
The opportunity identifies elevated HIV/STD vulnerability in this group due to overlapping factors that can accompany incarceration and re-entry, such as relationship disruption, economic instability, partner concurrency, and limited access to consistent health and social services.
How does the program define womens health?
Womens health is framed broadly across the life course. The RFA emphasizes that effective HIV prevention should reflect the realities of womens lives, including mental, dental, and physical health, caregiving responsibilities, relationship dynamics, and the social conditions that shape risk.
What are the two required components applicants are expected to implement?
Applicants are expected to combine two tightly linked components: (1) a culturally, linguistically, and developmentally appropriate peer education intervention providing accurate HIV/STD prevention and wellness information, and (2) a coordinated local coalition that improves transition and support services for women partners and their families.
What are the core objectives of this grant?
The RFA lists objectives to: increase the number of women partners reached with gender-specific prevention education; recruit, educate, and train women partners as peer educators; expand community linkages and referral networks connecting women partners, incarcerated/recently released men, and children to healthcare and social services; and increase voluntary HIV/STD testing among women partners.
Is the program expected to integrate education, testing, and support services?
Yes. The grant is designed to push applicants to integrate outreach, group intervention participation, testing, and linkage to medical care and supportive services, rather than treating them as separate activities.
What is meant by a gender-specific, peer-led intervention?
The intervention is expected to be gender responsive and delivered by peers (women partners trained as peer educators). It should acknowledge protective strengths (such as family support and community coping practices) while also addressing barriers linked to poverty and incarceration.
Does the prevention intervention have to be delivered in multiple sessions?
Yes. A major expectation is a multi-session, evidence-based, gender-specific prevention intervention.
What topics and challenges should the intervention address?
The RFA expects the intervention to address vulnerabilities and high-risk dynamics commonly experienced by women partners connected to incarceration, including negotiating safer sex, assertiveness, harm and risk reduction, depression and isolation, intimate partner violence and sexual assault, substance use, childcare and transportation barriers, confidentiality and coercion concerns, poverty and financial dependency, low literacy, and the social acceptability of concurrent partnerships.
What curriculum materials are applicants required to provide?
Applicants must provide a complete curriculum package, including session topics and content, a facilitators guide, participant workbook materials, evaluation forms, and pre/post instruments. Applicants must also specify the intervention format (number of sessions, session length, and overall timeline) and describe instructional strategies (such as interactive exercises, facilitated discussion, lectures, videos, and involvement of community peers).
Can CDC-endorsed interventions (DEBIs) be used?
Yes. CDC-endorsed interventions (often referred to as DEBIs) can be used and adapted, as long as the core logic that drives effectiveness is preserved.
What data sources are grantees expected to use to ground their approach?
Grantees must review city/county/state data on HIV incidence among women and male prison populations and analyze local challenges and trends. The RFA references sources such as U.S. Census demographics and public health surveillance systems (including CDC reports and the National Center for Health Statistics, among similar data systems).
What outreach settings or pathways are mentioned for identifying women partners?
The RFA notes outreach models may include, but are not limited to, visiting and waiting areas in correctional facilities and family assistance organizations that serve families of incarcerated people.
What are the testing and linkage-to-care expectations?
Grantees must coordinate HIV counseling and testing for women with unknown HIV status and ensure strong linkage to medical care and other supports for women who test positive.
What is the coalition-building requirement?
Coalition-building is a formal requirement. Applicants must establish partnerships and document them through Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) on partner letterhead.
What types of partners can be included in the coalition?
The partnership network is expected to be broad and functional and may include tribal entities, state and local health departments, healthcare providers, social services, small businesses, substance use treatment programs, domestic violence shelters, and community and faith-based organizations.
What kinds of referral pathways and services is the coalition expected to support?
The coalition is intended to create dependable referral pathways for HIV testing, counseling, well-woman screenings, and practical supports that stabilize lives, including housing, employment assistance, vocational training, entitlement enrollment, case management, family counseling, parenting skills development, and life-skills building.
What reporting and evaluation activities are required?
Grantees must submit regular reports documenting outreach, recruitment, participation, and retention, including implementation realities affecting women partners. They must also conduct a local evaluation using shared indicators and performance metrics in collaboration with other funded Women Partner sites.
Are sustainability plans required?
Yes. The RFA requires applicants to plan explicitly for sustainability beyond the period of OWH funding.
What dissemination products are required?
Funded sites must produce at least two conference abstracts and draft one white paper for OWH and other federal partners. These products should highlight lessons learned, best practices, and recommended next steps, and applicants should include a timeline for dissemination products in early progress reporting.
What training and conference participation expectations are included?
Staff capacity-building is part of the expectations, including participation in womens health and HIV-related trainings (with emphasis on gender-responsive programming) and attendance at least one national, regional, or state HIV/AIDS conference. Sites are also expected to stay current on evolving HIV prevention strategies and guidance from CDC, HRSA, and other experts.
How many awards were anticipated and what is the award amount?
The program anticipated up to 8 awards. The award floor and ceiling are both $150,000, meaning each award is $150,000.
Is cost sharing or matching required?
No. The opportunity states that cost sharing or matching is not required.
What is the CFDA number for this program?
The CFDA number listed is 93.015 (HIV Prevention Programs for Women).
What were the application open and close dates for this FY12 posting?
The application window opened May 9, 2012 and closed June 11, 2012. The archive date listed is July 11, 2012.
Who is eligible to apply?
Eligibility includes nonprofit community-based and faith-based organizations, national organizations, colleges and universities, clinics and hospitals, research institutions, state and local government agencies, tribal government agencies, and tribal/urban Indian organizations.
Are there location or community context expectations for applicants?
Yes. Applicants must be located in areas with high HIV prevalence among women, near correctional facilities and incarcerated populations, and must be positioned to reach women most affected.
What experience or track record should applicants demonstrate?
Applicants must show a history of serving populations including African American women, Hispanic women, substance-using women, formerly incarcerated women, and women living with HIV/AIDS or at high risk for HIV/STD infection.
Does the program address barriers beyond HIV education alone?
Yes. The RFA emphasizes that prevention messages are more likely to translate into safer choices and sustained engagement in care when paired with wraparound supports and coordinated access to services that address real-world barriers.
What does it mean that this is a cooperative agreement?
The opportunity is offered as a cooperative agreement, indicating a federal funding mechanism with program expectations and coordinated activities such as shared indicators, collaboration among funded sites, and required dissemination products, as described in the RFA.
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