597120 - FY26 RFA for 1st Five Healthy Mental Development Initiative - Implementation
Funding Opportunity Details

Family Health

Final Application Deadline: Mar 26, 2025 4:00 PM

Description

• Description

  It is the responsibility of the Applicant to review all Attachments listed below for additional details regarding this Funding Opportunity.

  The issuance of this Funding Opportunity in no way constitutes a commitment by Iowa HHS to award a contract.

  Excerpts from the RFP:

  Purpose:

  The purpose of this RFA is to provide guidance for current contractors to submit continuation applications to the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (referred to as Agency) to renew service provisions as described by and within the project period established by the RFP 58823021. Services covered by this application include 1st Five Healthy Mental Development (1st Five) services. 

  The basics of 1st Five include: 

  A. Engaging, training, and providing technical assistance to primary care providers on the 1st Five program and screening and surveillance tools for children birth to age five 

  1. Targeting the population of children birth to age five (up to a child’s fifth birthday)

  2. Increasing use of surveillance and standardized developmental screening in primary care 

  3. Providing a one-step referral resource for primary care providers 

  4. Connecting referred children (and their parents/caregivers) to existing services in their local communities 

  5. Keeping primary care providers informed about children’s progress 

  B. Supporting healthy social, emotional and cognitive development for children birth to age five.

  
  The Agency is actively working to strengthen our capacity to address health inequities in Iowa. Health equity is defined as supporting opportunities for everyone to live the healthiest life possible through the reduction of barriers in environmental, social, economic and other conditions which impact health. 1st Five promotes health equity through increased use of standardized developmental screening tools on a universal basis to minimize bias in assessment and by individualizing the connection to services based on a child’s and their parents’/caregivers’ unique needs for support. The standardized developmental screening tools supported are those that have been tested across disparate population groups and shown to reliably indicate concerns. Connection to services addresses both medical and social determinants of health.

   

  Schedule of Important Dates (All times and dates listed are local Iowa time.)

  The table below lists critical dates in the application and contract award process. Contractors are encouraged to review the entire RFA for detailed information about events, dates, times and sites.

  EVENT	DATE
  RFA Issued	February 12, 2025
  Written Questions and Responses
  Round 1 Questions Due  Interim Responses Posted by	February 26, 2025  March 5, 2025
  Final Questions Due Final Cumulative Responses Posted by	March 12, 2025  March 19, 2025
  Applications Due	March 26, 2025, by 4:00 pm Central
  Post Notice of Intent to Award	April 23, 2025