ELC - Cultural Navigation

This project serves to provide cultural navigation to support the case interview, contact tracing, and health education components of the COVID-19 pandemic response and other complementary public health efforts. The intent of this project is to reduce health disparities and increase accurate representation of marginalized communities in the public health COVID-19 data, regardless of culture or language. This will be done using cultural navigators who will work in tandem with public health teams to include individuals from hard-to-reach communities in the public health response.
Cultural navigators will use cultural and linguistic navigation skills to introduce public health goals and roles, communicate public health messages using culturally appropriate approaches, help public health understand case status and barriers expressed by cases and contacts, and work with public health to develop strategies to take cultural nuances into account when conducting case interviews.

General Information

What is the CFDA# for this grant?
- 93.323 - Epidemiological and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (ELC).
- Subrecipients shall comply with the requirements applicable to the federal program. This includes OMB Circular A-133 and/or Uniform Grant Guidance.
How much is this grant for?
- $159,509,879.00.
Who is this grant for?
- Agencies providing cultural navigation.
What is the funding year?
- Effective Date - December 19, 2022.

What are allowable costs?
- Indirect costs will be approved based on current approved negotiated indirect cost rate agreement.
- Because overtime costs are a very likely and reasonable expense during the response to COVID-19, CDC will allow recipients to include projected overtime in their budgets. Recipients should be careful to estimate costs based on current real-time needs and will still be required to follow federal rules and regulations in accounting for the employee's time and effort.
What are unallowable costs?
- Research.
- Clinical care except as provided above in connection with Domain 4 activities.
- Publicity and propaganda (lobbying) other than for normal and recognized executive-legislative relationships, no funds may be used for:
  - publicity or propaganda purposes, for the preparation, distribution, or use of any material designed to support or defeat the enactment of legislation before any legislative body.
- All unallowable costs cited in CDC-RFA-CK19-1904 remain in effect, unless specifically amended in this guidance, in accordance with 45 CFR Part 75 – Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, And Audit Requirements for HHS Awards.

The Contractor shall submit the monthly report via the COVID-19 Cultural Navigation Monthly Summary Form.
- No later than 15 days after the end of the month, and within the contract term.

- Are visa costs allowed?
  - Non-immigrant visas are allowed for the purposes of recruiting new staff if this is consistent with agency policy. Renewal costs are not allowable. Immigrant visa category costs are not allowable. §200.463 Recruiting costs (d)

- Do I need separate accounts for each award?
  - Yes, each award should be accounted for and reported separately. Please refer to §200.302 Financial management. In addition, awards provided under separate agreements and scopes of work must be tracked separately. For example:
  - One CDPHE award with multiple Federal sources requires separate tracking for each Federal funding source.
  - Multiple CDPHE awards from the same Federal funding source require separate tracking for each award number.