Understanding Strategies for CDC-RFA-DP21-2109

Section 1 – Component A Strategies

1. All organizations applying for Component A, must demonstrate that they will address four required strategies:
   1. Identify and collaborate with community-wide efforts to ensure comprehensive acquisition of relevant knowledge, roles, and skills by CHWs so they are prepared to successfully engage with existing state and/or local public health-led actions to manage COVID-19 among priority populations within communities.
   2. Integrate Community Health Workers into organizations and care teams to support the public health response to COVID-19 among priority populations within communities.
   3. Coordinate and/or promote messaging/education within communities and clinical settings to facilitate the engagement of CHWs in addressing the needs of those at highest risk for poor health outcomes, including those resulting from COVID-19.
   4. During Year 1: Initiate and develop systems to document engagement of CHWs in the care, support, and follow-up across clinical and community settings of priority populations at highest risk for poor health outcomes, including those resulting from COVID-19. During Year 2: Facilitate engagement of CHWs in the care, support, and follow-up across clinical and community settings of priority populations at highest risk for poor health outcomes, including those resulting from COVID-19.
   After addressing these required strategies, see step 2 for optional strategies that can be addressed in an application for Component A.

2. All organizations applying for Component A must demonstrate that they will address one of the three optional strategies below (this must be done in addition to the three required strategies listed in step 1):
   1. Align training opportunities for CHWs with the primary actions of state and/or local public health led efforts to address the underlying conditions and/or environments that increase the risk and severity of COVID-19 infections among priority populations within communities.
   2. Develop and disseminate messaging that educates organizations and care teams on the critical role CHWs play in delivering services and managing the spread of COVID-19 among priority populations within communities.
   3. Establish and strengthen partnerships between CHWs and State Medicaid agencies, relevant state or local coalitions, initiatives, professional organizations, providers, and health systems that provide resources and support for deploying CHWs to engage with priority populations at highest risk for poor health outcomes, including those resulting from COVID-19 by addressing social determinants of health (e.g., those with underlying health conditions, with decreased access to care or lacking access to routine and usual care, challenges with having social needs met, food insecurity, housing insecurity and homelessness, etc.).
   For information on what outcomes and performance measures Component A recipients will be required to report on, as well as other details on what should be included in an application for Component A, see the full Notice of Funding Opportunity at grants.govexternal icon.

Section 2 – Component B Strategies

3. All organizations applying for Component B must demonstrate that they will address four required strategies:
   1. Identify and collaborate with community-wide efforts to ensure comprehensive acquisition of relevant knowledge, roles, and skills by CHWs so they are prepared to successfully engage with existing state and/or local public health-led actions to manage COVID-19 among priority populations within communities.
   2. Integrate Community Health Workers into organizations and care teams to support the public health response to COVID-19 among priority populations within communities.
   3. Coordinate and/or promote opportunities, such as messaging/education within communities and clinical settings to facilitate the engagement of CHWs in addressing the needs of those at highest risk for poor health outcomes, including those resulting from COVID-19.
   4. Facilitate engagement of CHWs in the care, support, and follow-up across clinical and community settings of priority populations at highest risk for poor health outcomes, including those resulting from COVID-19.
After addressing these strategies, see step 4 for optional strategies that can be addressed in an application for Component B.

4. All organizations applying for Component B must demonstrate that they will address two of the three optional strategies below (this must be done in addition to the required strategies listed in step 3):
   1. Ensure appropriate training opportunities to disseminate messaging for CHWs focused on reaching those with underlying conditions and/or environments that increase the risk and severity of COVID-19 infections among priority populations in order to strengthen infrastructure critical to identification of infection, appropriate follow-up, including contract tracing, and treatment among priority populations within communities.
   2. Align training opportunities for CHWs with the primary actions of state and/or local public health led efforts to address the underlying conditions and/or environments that increase the risk and severity of COVID-19 infections among priority populations withing communities.
   3. Integrate CHWs into public health emergency preparedness and vaccine deployment planning (e.g., including in planning and coordination with Immunization and Public Health Preparedness Programs), existing vaccine infrastructure, and vaccine providers in the community to increase access to new and existing vaccination programs in priority populations within communities.
For information on what outcomes and performance measures Component B recipients will be required to report on, as well as other details on what should be included in an application for Component B, see the full Notice of Funding Opportunity at grants.govexternal icon.

Section 3 – Component C Application Requirements

5. All organizations applying for Component C must have completed a Component B Applicants of Component C will only be considered for the additional $2 million in funding if they have been successfully awarded funding under Component B. In addition to all the requirements expected of the Component B application, an organization who plans to also apply for Component C must submit the following:
   1. A detailed proposal of the innovative project
   2. A budget narrative detailing how the additional $2 million will be spent
   3. A workplan describing specific activities that will be used to achieve project goals
   For information on what outcomes and performance measures Component C recipients will be required to report on, as well as other details on what should be included in an application for Component C, see the full Notice of Funding Opportunity at grants.govexternal icon.