Announcement of Cooperative Agreement to the State of North Carolina Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the availability of fiscal year (FY) 1994 funds for a cooperative agreement program for Diabetes Intervention: Reaching and Educating Communities Together (Project DIRECT) with the State of North Carolina Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources (DEHNR) to further develop and carryout multi-level, community-based interventions to reduce the burden of diabetes and its complications in an African- American community. Project DIRECT is a multiyear demonstration project of the Division of Diabetes Translation (DDT), National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), CDC, incorporating the principal translation functions of the division of: (1) Defining the burden of diabetes, (2) developing innovative approaches to the prevention and control of diabetes, (3) implementing these approaches through the State-based diabetes control programs, and (4) coordinating national, State, and local resources for improved diabetes care. Approximately $650,000 is available in FY 1994 to fund this program. This funding is to support administrative start-up costs, to include staffing and awarding c