This notice solicits applications for Rural Health Integration Models for Parents and Children to Thrive (IMPACT).

A two-generational approach focuses on creating opportunities for and addressing needs of both vulnerable children and their parents together.

It prioritizes and facilitates
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coordination of programs and services needed to address the additive effects of poverty and geographic isolation on early childhood health and development.

A holistic-family-based approach acknowledges the importance of the family in shaping health and developmental outcomes for children.2 Research has shown that the well-being of parents greatly impacts the health and developmental trajectories of their children and is a crucial factor in children’s social-emotional, physical, and economic well-being.

At the same time, the emotional and behavioral needs of at-risk infants, toddlers, and preschoolers are best met through coordinated services that focus on relationships, especially with parents and other caregivers.

Parents’ ability to succeed in school and/or at work is affected by how well their children are doing.