DoD-USDA Partnership: Child Care & Youth Program Training and Technical Assistance Program

Military families face a lifestyle that includes frequent deployments and increased family separations. These challenges can affect military readiness. NIFA, the Land-Grant University System, and defense agencies partner to support military family and youth quality of life through extension educational programs and research designed to address the unique challenges associated with military family life. This mission-focused project cultivates collaborations with educational institutions, non-governmental and community-based organizations with appropriate expertise to support the family programs, workforce development, and child care and youth development expansion needs of the Department of Defense (DoD). Through this partnership, $7,045,454 is made available in Fiscal Year 2010 to implement the overall strategies and methods to provide training and technical assistance for child care providers and youth development program staff in targeted states.

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DoD-USDA Partnership

Who Is Eligible to Apply

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Applications may be submitted by State agricultural experiment stations, State cooperative extension services, all colleges and universities, other research or educational institution or organization and any other contractor or recipient, either foreign or domestic, to further research, extension or teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences of USDA. Award recipients may subcontract to organizations not eligible to apply provided they are necessary for the conduct of the project.

Request for Application (RFA) | Apply: Electronic