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Collaborations: A National Perspective
Aida Balsano Brent Elrod National Program Leaders Division of Family & Consumer Sciences
Overview
• Context & Structure • NIFA FCS Programmatic Priorities • Research & Evaluation • Partnerships & Funding Opportunities
Institute of Youth, Family & Community Deputy Director
Muquarrab Qureshi
Division of Community & Education Suresh Sureshwaran Division of Youth & 4-H Lisa Lauxman Division of Family & Consumer Sciences Caroline Crocoll
Farm Benchmarking, FERS & CSRS 1890s Facilities, Special Needs & HUD/Disaster Ed, SEEP
Division of Family and Consumer Sciences
Strengthening Families, Farms, Communities, and the Economy
RHSE & MEACA Admin, Consumer, Textiles, Hospitality, Volunteer & Signature Programs, Visiting Scholars, Mentoring, CT, REE 7, USDA 1, NIFA 2, CT, FCS Stakeholders, Portfolio, FS & HD
IYFC Program Assistants Division Director (Crocoll) Supervisory Program Assistant (Ashton)
SBIR & RRDCs AgrAbility, Youth Farm Safety & RHSE RME & TAAF
NPL Family & Consumer Economics (Shockey) Program Specialist (Montgomery)
Adult Development & Aging
NPL Housing & Community Living (Samuel) NPL Nutrition, Health & Wellness (Reeves) NPL FCS Research & Evaluation & Early Childhood (Balsano) NPL Sustainable Farm Enterprises & Social Sciences (Hipple) NPL Rural & Community Development (Elrod) Program Assistant (Briggs) 1890s Scholar (Alford) Program Analyst (Ellis) Program Specialist Student Intern (Williams) (Shipley) Program Assistant (Wiley)
Family Science, Human Development, Military Family, Veterans, SAMHSA 4/24/2020
DFCS MISSION
• To focus on the human dimensions of food and agriculture in addressing priority issues through
scientific research and its application; strategic partnerships; Extension education; and the preparation of the next generation
of Family & Consumer Sciences professionals.
DIVISION STATS
• 16 Staff • Funding FY12 – Research $137M • 607 FTEs – Extension $324M • 3256 FTEs – Reimbursable $19M • Hatch & Evans Allen • Multistate Research • Competitive Programs • Non-Competitive Programs – Research & Extension All Sources including State Match
Program Priorities
1. Rural Vitality 2. Financial Capability 3. Nutrition and Health Literacy 4. Home Safety, Energy Efficiency and
Water
5. Child and Family Resiliency 6. Disaster Preparedness/Response 7. Research and Evaluation
Rural Vitality
Rural and community development programs contribute to farm enterprise sustainability, regional rural development, community resource and economic development, and Extension risk management education. These programs increase rural vitality, and enhance prosperity and security for families, communities, farms, ranches, and businesses.
Brent Elrod
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Sustainable Farm Enterprises
Each year, hundreds of U.S. farm businesses fail; some caused by poor financial management. Farm management involves successfully integrating the factors of production land, labor, and financial resources to realize an economically viable, ecologically sound, and socially responsible farm business. NIFA provides funding opportunities and staff expertise to address these concerns, allowing producers to meet their business and financial goals successfully.
Pat Hipple
Financial Capability
Extension financial capability programs promote financial knowledge and understanding, skills and competence, and responsibility, which results in less economic strain on households, more financial resiliency, less risk of poverty spanning generations, and better overall individual and family financial outcomes .
Susan Shockey
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Nutrition and Health Literacy
Extension nutrition, health and wellness programs focus on promoting health, preventing disease and disability, eliminating disparities, and improving quality of living through food and agricultural health and safety, access to health care and preventive services, and health in relation to the environment.
Cynthia Reeves
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Home Safety and Energy Efficiency
Housing and community living programs identify issues, develop solutions, and share promising practices to promote sustainable housing initiatives, safe and affordable housing, air and water quality, and home energy efficiency.
Beverly Samuel
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Child and Family Resiliency
Extension child and family resiliency programs support healthy human development across the lifespan to help people make informed, science based decisions about child and family health and well-being.
Ahlishia Shipley
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Adult Development and Aging
Adult development and aging programs provide an understanding of older adults and the aging process, family caregiving issues and opportunities, and the impact of our aging society on communities and the nation.
Sylvia Montgomery
Disaster Preparedness/Response
Disaster Preparedness and Response programs support nationwide disaster education, and provide resources and expertise to effectively prepare for and respond to disasters.
All NIFA DFCS staff work on these issues
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Evaluation and Research
Working on strengthening evaluation of Family & Consumer Sciences programs throughout the nation by identifying existing and emerging research and evaluation opportunities and needs.
Aida Balsano
Internal Data
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Competitive grants (including those established via reimbursables)
to: – assess quality and efficacy of Division’s activities and inputs during the grants process; – assess and ensure diversity where and when appropriate; – inform and enhance our current and future competitive grants practices; – increase internal and external transparency of our CP work; and – generate reports that can be used to inform Division’s programmatic and administrative strategic planning.
Review panel
New awards
Longitudinal mapping of awards data
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External Data
601. Economics of Agricultural Production and Farm Management 607. Consumer Economics 608. Community Resource Planning and Development 703. Nutrition Education and Behavior (50%) 704. Nutrition and Hunger in the Population (50%) 723. Hazards to Human Health and Safety 724. Healthy Lifestyle 801. Individual and Family Resource Management 802. Human Development and Family Well-Being 803. Sociological and Technological Change Affecting Individuals, Families, and Communities 804. Human Environmental Issues Concerning Apparel, Textiles, and Residential and Commercial Structures 805. Community Institutions, Health, and Social Services
Excellence Database
• Data entry for 2014 is now open. The goal for this year is 100% participation by all institutions. – Data • New options for graphing data – Impact Stories – Family & Consumer Sciences must be identified with related programs – https://excellence.tamu.edu
PARTNERSHIPS & FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Regional Opportunities
• Stronger Partnerships – Regional Rural Development Centers • Stronger Economies Together • Ready Communities • Community Assessments – Community Resource & Economic Development – Family & Consumer Sciences Programs
Department of Defense
Examples of Family & Consumer Sciences Programs
• Family Maltreatment • Family Advocacy • New Parent Support • Substance Abuse • Financial Readiness • Exceptional Family Member • Mobilization & Deployment • Relocation Assistance • Employment Readiness • Army Family Action • Warriors in Transition (Caregiver Education) • Survivor Outreach Services
Currently Funded
• DoD – Military Extension Partnership • Army – Family Advocacy – Wounded Warriors – Survivor Outreach Services – Forts Bliss, Campbell, Drum, Hood, and Joint Base San Antonio
Currently Funded
• Army Reserves – Evidence-based Practices • Air Force – Family Advocacy – Psychological Health & Traumatic Brain Injury • Special Operations Command
• HUD – Healthy Homes Partnership • CMS – Extension Outreach on the Marketplace Exchanges of the Affordable Care Act (MEACA) • SAMHSA – Community Assessment and Education to Promote Behavioral Health Planning and Evaluation (CAPE)
In Development
• Energy – State Extension Energy Partnership (SEEP) • Federal Emergency Management Agency • Food and Agriculture Resiliency Program for Military Veterans (FARM – Vets) • Veterans Affairs
NIFA Family & Consumer Sciences Grant Programs
• Rural Health & Safety Education • Smith Lever Special Needs • AgrAbility • Youth Farm Safety Education & Certification • Extension Risk Management • Small Business Innovation Research - RD
Other NIFA Grant Opportunities
• RFA Language –
….Food, Agriculture, Natural Resources and Human Sciences
• Beginning Farmer & Rancher Development Program • DoCE – AFRI Fellows, Challenge, Multicultural Scholars, HSIs • AFRI & Other – IBCE (Climate, Energy, Water) – IFSN (Community Foods, Food Science, Food Safetyy, Nutrition Education, Childhood Obesity)
Other NIFA Grant Opportunities
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FY 2014 AFRI - Childhood Obesity Prevention
– – – – http://www.nifa.usda.gov/fo/childhoodobesityafri.cfm
17 April 2014 19 June 2014
Letter of Intent due date RFA due date
$9M
available – Generate new knowledge of the behavioral (not metabolic), social, cultural, and/or environmental factors, including food environment, that influence childhood obesity and use this information to develop and implement effective family, peer, community, and/or school based interventions for preventing overweight and obesity and promoting healthy behaviors in children and adolescents (ages 2 – 19 years). This knowledge should have a strong emphasis on health literacy and health disparities.
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Other NIFA Grant Opportunities
Children, Youth and Families at Risk Sustainable Community Projects (SCP)
– http://www.nifa.usda.gov/fo/childrenyouthfamiliessustainable communityprojects.cfm
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11 April 2014
due date
$6,455,000
estimated total program funding (
$2,075,000 to fund new CYFAR SCPs)
– Project length up to five years –
$83,000
initial year maximum funding per grantee for a single institutional applicant;
$166,000
for joint institutional applications. One Pilot Model CYFAR SCP Project will be funded up to
$175,000
total.