Is the application process competitive or non-competitive?
• What process do they use to evaluate local programs? • Are strategies and activities driven from the state program or are local program free to choose any strategies they want to work on? A: • Arizona: • We devote almost 48% of our excise tax dollars to local and community-based programs. • We fund county health departments, Native American tribes, Tribal Organizations, and grassroots community-based programs. • For our county health departments the application process is non-competitive due to our governmental relationship. Our community partners are sole source contracts deemed impractical to bid based upon the specific populations that they serve (i.e. African American, Asian American, Hispanic, Low SES, Native American). These are re-evaluated every year. • We have a centralized evaluation process, and have a contract with one of our state universities to evaluate our programs. The evaluation is done in conjunction with our long-term planning, and currently we use a variety of in
