Wicomico County Health Department Offers Grant Funds

Wicomico County, MD – The Wicomico County Health Department is soliciting grant proposals from county organizations interested in conducting programs on teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection prevention. Programs must implement the Promoting Health Among Teens! Comprehensive Abstinence and Safer Sex intervention (PHAT-C) curriculum. Training on this curriculum will be provided to all awardees. Any Wicomico county community group, including civic organizations, youth groups, counseling centers, human service organizations, foster care agencies, churches, non-profit agencies, etc. are invited to apply. The project’s target audience is youth ages 10 to 19.

Grant proposal packages with detailed proposal specifications may be obtained at our website www.wicomicohealth.org or at the Wicomico County Health Department, Seth H. Hurdle Building, 108 East Main Street, Room 210, Salisbury, MD 21801.

Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to attend a pre-proposal meeting to address questions about the grant proposal submission process. The meeting will be held Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 9:00 a.m., at the Wicomico County Health Department, first floor Pinto Conference Room, 108 East Main Street, Salisbury, Maryland.

The proposal submission deadline is Monday, April 30th at 11:00 a.m. Funds will be awarded in early May and are made available through the Wicomico County Health Department and the Personal Responsibility and Education Program. For more information, please call (410) 334-3480.