Opportunity Information: Apply for HRSA 22 082
The Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) Prevention Program is a federal funding opportunity from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, designed to lower the overall number of sudden unexpected infant deaths and to narrow the persistent racial and ethnic disparities seen in SUID outcomes. The program is built around a practical idea: pediatric health care providers are in a strong position to influence caregiver behavior and connect families to supports, but they also need better access to local data and stronger partnerships with community systems so prevention efforts match the real risks families face in specific places. Rather than treating SUID prevention as only a messaging campaign, this opportunity emphasizes evidence-based counseling, culturally responsive communication, and improvements in the systems and policies that shape infant sleep environments and caregiver choices.
A central feature of the program is the creation and leadership of a national coalition with broad representation. The funded recipient is expected to bring together pediatric providers alongside social service organizations, leaders involved in fatality reviews, community groups that serve populations at highest risk for SUID, and families who have experienced a SUID loss. The coalition is meant to function as a national hub for identifying what is working in different states and communities, promoting safe infant sleep best practices, and ensuring that prevention strategies are informed by both data and lived experience. The program also explicitly calls for expertise areas within the coalition such as safe sleep practice, breastfeeding, maternal health, fatality review processes, and culturally responsive communication with infant caregivers and families.
Another major focus is increasing pediatric providers awareness and use of state and community fatality review information, specifically data and recommendations from fetal/infant mortality review (FIMR) and child death review (CDR) teams. The grant expects the recipient to help providers understand the local drivers of SUID and how those drivers connect to caregiver practices, health and social service systems, and local policy conditions. The intent is to move pediatric counseling beyond general advice into guidance that reflects community-specific patterns, such as barriers to accessing safe sleep spaces, unstable housing, gaps in postpartum supports, or other local factors that contribute to unequal risk. By strengthening the connection between providers and fatality review findings, the program aims to make prevention efforts more targeted, actionable, and equitable.
The program also aims to directly engage pediatric providers in hands-on prevention activity with families and with community prevention structures. Providers are expected to assist caregivers in creating safe sleep environments through risk and protective factor assessments, counseling, and education that is evidence-based, comprehensive, and culturally responsive. In addition to clinical counseling, the program stresses provider participation in broader community action, including serving as members of FIMR or CDR teams and working with associated community action teams (CATs), State Advisory Boards, or other local SUID prevention groups. This structure is meant to help providers not only educate families, but also contribute to identifying gaps in services and policies and to initiating improvements that reduce community-specific risks and disparities.
The notice includes a timeline of concrete deliverables. Within 3 months of project launch, the recipient must convene and lead the national coalition, ensuring participation by nationally recognized organizations aligned with SUID prevention and related fields. Within 6 months, the recipient, working with the coalition and HRSA, must establish criteria for identifying best practices, including clear examples of successful prevention strategies that are tailored to state or community risks and achieved through collaboration among FIMR/CDR teams, CATs, advisory boards, and pediatric providers. Also within 6 months, the recipient must promote pediatric provider participation in community action teams, reinforcing the idea that provider engagement should extend beyond the clinic. Within 12 months, the recipient must promote and disseminate the identified best practices and real-world implementation examples so they can be adopted or adapted elsewhere.
By the end of the project, the recipient is expected to produce and widely disseminate practical tools and resources that help pediatric providers take action based on fatality review data and recommendations. These tools are expected to support multiple functions: assessing SUID risk and protective factors; identifying the specific challenges that caregivers and families face; delivering counseling and education that is evidence-based and culturally responsive while emphasizing risks that are specific to the provider's state or community; identifying gaps and barriers in health and social service systems and in local policies that contribute to racial and ethnic disparities; and partnering with others to implement community-specific SUID prevention strategies. In other words, the deliverables should help providers translate local data into consistent, usable workflows and community partnerships rather than leaving them with abstract recommendations.
Administratively, this opportunity is a discretionary cooperative agreement (meaning HRSA is likely to have substantial involvement in the funded project compared to a standard grant). It is listed under Funding Opportunity Number HRSA-22-082 and CFDA 93.110. The anticipated award structure indicates a single award is expected, with an award ceiling of $500,000. The eligible applicant category is listed broadly as "Others" with additional eligibility details referenced in the full notice. The opportunity was originally posted on November 5, 2021, with an original closing date of February 3, 2022.Apply for HRSA 22 082
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Prevention" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.110.
- This funding opportunity was created on Nov 05, 2021.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Feb 03, 2022. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $500,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) Prevention Program (HRSA-22-082) FAQs
What is the Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) Prevention Program?
The SUID Prevention Program is a federal funding opportunity from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, designed to reduce the overall number of sudden unexpected infant deaths and to narrow persistent racial and ethnic disparities in SUID outcomes.
What is the main purpose of this funding opportunity?
The program aims to strengthen SUID prevention by combining evidence-based counseling and culturally responsive communication with improvements in the systems and policies that influence infant sleep environments and caregiver choices. It emphasizes connecting pediatric providers to local fatality review data and building stronger partnerships with community systems so prevention efforts reflect real, local risks.
Who is the sponsoring federal agency for this opportunity?
The opportunity is offered by HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration), which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
What is the Funding Opportunity Number and CFDA listing?
The Funding Opportunity Number is HRSA-22-082, and the CFDA number is 93.110.
What type of award is this?
This opportunity is a discretionary cooperative agreement, meaning HRSA is likely to have substantial involvement in the funded project compared with a standard grant.
How many awards are expected, and what is the maximum award amount?
The anticipated award structure indicates a single award is expected, and the award ceiling is $500,000.
Who is eligible to apply?
The eligible applicant category is listed as "Others," with additional eligibility details referenced in the full notice.
What problem is the program trying to address beyond general safe sleep messaging?
The program is designed to move beyond treating SUID prevention as only a messaging campaign. It prioritizes practical, evidence-based counseling, culturally responsive communication, and improvements in systems and policies so that prevention strategies align with community-specific risks and the lived realities of families.
Why are pediatric health care providers central to this program?
The program is built on the idea that pediatric providers are well positioned to influence caregiver behavior and connect families to supports. At the same time, providers often need better access to local data and stronger partnerships with community systems to make counseling and prevention activities more targeted and effective.
What is the national coalition, and what is it expected to do?
A central feature of the program is creating and leading a national coalition with broad representation. The coalition is intended to function as a national hub for identifying what is working across states and communities, promoting safe infant sleep best practices, and ensuring strategies are guided by both data and lived experience.
Who should be represented in the national coalition?
The coalition is expected to include pediatric providers, social service organizations, leaders involved in fatality reviews, community groups serving populations at highest risk for SUID, and families who have experienced a SUID loss.
What expertise areas does the coalition explicitly call for?
The notice explicitly calls for coalition expertise in areas such as safe sleep practice, breastfeeding, maternal health, fatality review processes, and culturally responsive communication with infant caregivers and families.
How does the program use fatality review information?
A major focus is increasing pediatric providers' awareness and use of state and community fatality review information, specifically data and recommendations from fetal/infant mortality review (FIMR) and child death review (CDR) teams. The goal is to help providers understand local drivers of SUID and apply those findings to more actionable prevention work.
What are FIMR and CDR in the context of this opportunity?
FIMR refers to fetal/infant mortality review, and CDR refers to child death review. In this program, both are sources of local data and recommendations intended to inform pediatric providers and community prevention efforts.
How is provider counseling expected to change under this program?
The intent is to move pediatric counseling beyond general advice into guidance that reflects community-specific patterns and risks identified through fatality reviews and local conditions. Examples mentioned include barriers to accessing safe sleep spaces, unstable housing, gaps in postpartum supports, and other local factors that may contribute to unequal risk.
What does the program expect pediatric providers to do with families?
Providers are expected to assist caregivers in creating safe sleep environments through risk and protective factor assessments, counseling, and education that is evidence-based, comprehensive, and culturally responsive.
Does the program expect provider involvement outside the clinic?
Yes. In addition to clinical counseling, the program stresses pediatric provider participation in broader community action, including serving as members of FIMR or CDR teams and working with community action teams (CATs), State Advisory Boards, or other local SUID prevention groups.
What are Community Action Teams (CATs) in this notice?
CATs are referenced as community prevention structures associated with fatality review processes and local SUID prevention work. The program promotes pediatric provider participation in these teams as part of community-specific prevention action.
What are the required early deliverables and timeline?
The notice includes concrete deliverables: within 3 months of project launch, the recipient must convene and lead the national coalition and ensure participation by nationally recognized organizations aligned with SUID prevention and related fields. Within 6 months, the recipient (working with the coalition and HRSA) must establish criteria for identifying best practices and also promote pediatric provider participation in community action teams. Within 12 months, the recipient must promote and disseminate identified best practices and real-world implementation examples.
What does "best practices" mean in this program?
Within 6 months, the recipient must establish criteria for identifying best practices, including clear examples of successful prevention strategies tailored to state or community risks and achieved through collaboration among FIMR/CDR teams, CATs, advisory boards, and pediatric providers.
What kinds of tools and resources must be produced by the end of the project?
By the end of the project, the recipient is expected to produce and widely disseminate practical tools and resources that help pediatric providers act on fatality review data and recommendations. These tools should support assessing SUID risk and protective factors; identifying specific challenges faced by caregivers and families; delivering evidence-based and culturally responsive counseling and education that emphasizes state- or community-specific risks; identifying gaps and barriers in systems and policies contributing to racial and ethnic disparities; and partnering with others to implement community-specific SUID prevention strategies.
How is equity addressed in this opportunity?
The program explicitly aims to narrow persistent racial and ethnic disparities seen in SUID outcomes. It emphasizes culturally responsive communication and calls for identifying and addressing gaps and barriers in health and social service systems and local policies that contribute to unequal risk.
What is the expected role of families who have experienced a SUID loss?
Families who have experienced a SUID loss are expected to be part of the national coalition, helping ensure prevention strategies are informed by lived experience as well as data.
When was the opportunity posted, and what was the original closing date?
The opportunity was originally posted on November 5, 2021, and the original closing date was February 3, 2022.
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