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R -- A PROJECT TO DEMONSTRATE HOW COMMUNITY BASED INTERVENTIONS CAN ENHANCE AND FACILITATE ACCESS TO FAMILY PLANNING INFORMATION, EDUCATION, AND CLINICAL SERVICES FOR HARD TO REACH POPULATIONS. SOL IRGAUS001 DUE 060899 POC Alfonso Carlon, e-mail site: Linkage@jba-cht.com Telephone: 512-472-1952 WEB: Click here to download a copy of the Project Announcement, Linkage@jba-cht.com. E-MAIL: Initiate contact through e-mail link, Linkage@jba-cht.com. International Resource Group, Ltd., Austin, Texas in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Region VI Family Planning Program, Dallas, Texas is initiating a three-year project in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. Grant funds will be awarded to demonstrate and evaluate how community based, non profit organizations through existing and innovative service linkages, can enhance access for hard to reach populations to needed family planning information, education and clinical services. Hard to reach populations include, but are not limited to males who exclude themselves or are excluded by service providers, persons in alcohol and drug rehabilitation programs including halfway houses, homeless persons, adolescents, populations who are vulnerable as a result of financial circumstances, place of residence, health status, functional or developmental status, persons who are chronically ill or disabled, survivors of domestic violence and or sexual/abuse. Grant recipients may include religious affiliated organizations with certain federal restrictions. It is expected that all applicant proposals will address the following U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, Office of Population Affairs Title X program priorities: expansion and enhancement of the quality of clinical reproductive health services through partnerships with entities that have related interests, and that work with similar priority populations; increased emphasis on services to adolescents, including emphasis on postponement of sexual activity, and more accessible provision of contraceptive counseling and services; increased services to hard to reach populations by partnering with community based organizations and others that have an interest in the prevention of unintended pregnancy; expansion of comprehensiveness of reproductive health services, including STD and cancer screening and prevention, HIV prevention, education and counseling; and substance abuse screening and referral; and increased services to males, emphasizing shared responsibility for preventing unintended pregnancy and STD/HIV infection. Parties wishing to participate in this project should obtain and complete the Request for Application Kit form located in the Project Announcement. Proposals must be received in the IRG office by close of business, Tuesday, June 8, 1999. Posted 03/08/99 (W-SN306253). (0067)

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