Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant– 2024

Background
The Preventive Health and Health Services (PHHS) Block Grant Program allows recipients to address their own unique public health needs and challenges with innovative and community-driven methods. Recipients set their own goals and program objectives and implement local strategies to address Healthy People 2030 priorities.

Grant Details
The Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant provides resources to support prioritized public health objectives, enabling recipients to implement innovative and community-driven methods that meet their priority public health needs. The grant is used to fill funding gaps in programs that deal with leading causes of death and disabilities and provides the ability to respond rapidly to emerging health issues while supporting agency-wide priorities that are also important to state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments. Unallowable costs include the purchase of naloxone, syringes, drug disposal programs, clinical care (except as allowed by law), and publicity/propaganda (lobbying).

Eligibility Requirements
This program provides all 50 states, the District of Columbia, 2 American Indian Tribes, 5 U.S. Territories, and 3 Freely Associated States as identified in the authorizing statute with funding to address their own unique public health needs and challenges with innovative and locally defined methods.

Period of Performance
The period of performance for this grant is from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2025.

Grant Value
The total approximate funding for the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant– 2024 is $168,000,000. The approximate number of awards for the current fiscal year is 61.