Opportunity Overview
The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH), Maternal and Child Health Services, has announced Outreach and Education 2027, NOFA reference DFHS27OTR. The program supports outreach and education to healthcare providers and communities to increase awareness of chronic disease in maternal health, identify risk factors, and implement evidence-based preventive strategies.
The scope also includes provider education regarding the Perinatal Risk Assessment, onboarding and training providers on the PRACONNECT data system, improving access to New Jersey healthcare services and resources, training and supporting the Healthy Women, Healthy Families resource and referral system, and data collection, management, and analysis.
Funding, Award Period and Deadline
NJDOH estimates $520,620 is available in the grant program. The award period is October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027.
The SAGE program name is Outreach and Education 2027. The application is scheduled to become available September 14, 2026, and applications are due September 30, 2026. The published one-page NOFA does not state a submission clock time or time zone.
Applicant Eligibility
The NOFA’s applicant-type checkbox identifies Non-profit Organization (501(c)(3)). Its narrative qualifications additionally state that the applicant/grantee must be a public agency or private nonprofit organization with the capacity to meet the administrative, programmatic, and fiscal requirements of the Reproductive and Perinatal Health Services program. Because those two portions of the NOFA are not perfectly aligned, applicants should confirm the controlling eligibility language in the RFA before relying on public-agency eligibility.
Applicants must have a valid New Jersey Charities Registration Letter and Tax Clearance Certificate to apply. Current grantees will receive priority for continuation grants based on satisfactory performance and timely reporting. Submission is through the New Jersey SAGE system.
N9+ / Dr. Miltie Analysis
N9+ Fit Score: 12/100. This grant is principally focused on outreach, education, provider training, referral-system support, and data management. The controlling NOFA does not identify remote physical examination, telehealth clinical encounters, diagnostic devices, or remote patient monitoring as funded objectives. Atlas should therefore not force the Nonagon N9+ into this opportunity without materially different RFA language.
Dr. Miltie is not presently verified as an eligible direct applicant. The more appropriate Atlas posture is to track the opportunity, confirm the RFA and current-grantee landscape, and support a legitimately eligible New Jersey maternal-health organization if a suitable applicant requests grant-preparation assistance.
Provisional Applicant Targets
New Jersey’s maternal and child health network includes the Partnership for Maternal & Child Health of Northern New Jersey, Central Jersey Family Health Consortium, and The Cooperative (formerly Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative). NJDOH identifies these organizations as the state’s three Maternal and Child Health Consortia, and prior NJDOH material confirms their roles in maternal-health initiatives such as Healthy Women, Healthy Families. They are strong organizations to evaluate against the RFA, but public sources reviewed here do not establish that any one of them is a current DFHS27OTR grantee.
Provisional Atlas Opportunity Scores pending RFA/current-grantee confirmation: Central Jersey Family Health Consortium 94/100; Partnership for Maternal & Child Health of Northern New Jersey 93/100; The Cooperative 93/100.
Next Action
Obtain and review the controlling RFA when the SAGE application becomes available, confirm current Outreach and Education grantees and final applicant eligibility, verify any published submission time, and only then qualify applicant outreach. No new outreach should begin before the opportunity is actually open and all Atlas/Zoho send gates are satisfied.
Verified source: New Jersey Department of Health, Notice of Fund Availability, Outreach and Education, DFHS27OTR.