Availability of Funds for Grants for School Health Services and Health Education/Promotion for Homeless and At-Risk Children and Youth, and for School Health Staff Development

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The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces the availability of approximately $5.75 million under the appropriation for fiscal year (FY) 1994, for HRSA's new school health initiative: the Healthy Schools, Healthy Communities Initiative. The Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) will jointly manage this initiative within HRSA. Under this initiative, approximately $3.25 million is available for discretionary grants to provide school-based primary health care services to homeless and at-risk children and youth. This money was appropriated under Public Law 103-112, the FY 1994 Labor/HHS Appropriations Act, and is included as part of the funding for the Outreach and Primary Health Services for Homeless Children Program. The grants will be awarded under section 340(s) of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, 42 U.S.C. 256. The remainder of the funding for the initiative, approximately $2.5 million, is available through MCHB's Special Projects of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS) as authorized under section 501(a)(2) of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701(a)(2). One million dollars of the SPRANS money is for