Deadline: 30-Aug-21
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Health and Public Safety Workforce Resiliency Technical Assistance Center (HPSWRTAC).
The purpose of this program is to provide tailored training and technical assistance (TA) to the recipients of Health and Public Safety Workforce Resiliency Training Program (HRSA-22-109) and Promoting Resilience and Mental Health Among Health Professional Workforce (HRSA-22-110) to establish, enhance and expand the capacity and infrastructure to rapidly deploy evidence-informed or evidence-based innovative strategies that promote mental and behavioral health, prevent suicide, as well as reduce burnout and substance use occurrences among providers, health care professionals, health care students, residents, professionals, paraprofessionals, trainees, public safety officers1 and employers of such individuals.
Program Goals
- Establish and enhance a network of partnerships among the HRSA’s health workforce resiliency grant recipients through regional partnerships to share best practices, leverage resources, promote mental and behavioral health, prevent suicide, and reduce burnout and substance use among the Health Workforce.
- Enhance the capacity of HRSA’s health workforce resiliency grant recipients utilizing evidence-informed or evidence-based innovative strategies to promote mental and behavioral health, prevent suicide, and reduce burnout and substance use among the Heath Workforce, particularly in rural and underserved areas.
- Enhance HRSA’s health workforce resiliency grantee recipients framework by providing critically needed resources through technical assistance and training to promote mental and behavioral health, prevent suicide and reduce burnout and substance use among the Health Workforce.
Program Objectives
- Promote mental and behavioral health, and provider wellness through the provision of technical assistance and training to HRSA’s health workforce resiliency grant recipients.
- Provide training and technical assistance to HRSA’s health workforce resiliency grant recipients to develop evidence-informed or evidence-based post intervention protocols that address the needs of entities impacted by provider suicides or other adverse events.
- Provide tailored technical assistance to HRSA health workforce resiliency grant recipients to establish, enhance, expand, and integrate resilience, and wellness evidence-informed or evidence-based programs/protocols within their HRSA-22-111 organization’s values, expectations, policies, and procedures to provide their health professional workforce with the knowledge, skills, services, and resources to become resilient and manage workplace stressors.
- Provide tailored training and technical assistance to HRSA’s health workforce resiliency grant recipients to increase the capacity of organizations to transform their organizational culture, values, and expectations to provide needed community-based and culturally-competent services and resources to their health professional workforce(s) to enable them to manage workplace stressors.
- Create regional partnerships among HRSA’s health workforce resiliency grant recipients for linkages that address immediate workforce needs related to promoting mental and behavioral health, preventing suicide, and reducing burnout and substance use.
- Provide tailored training and technical assistance to HRSA health workforce resiliency grant recipients in medically underserved and rural areas to enhance and expand their programs and support for the Health Workforce serving in these areas.
- Establish a national framework that supports the rapid deployment of evidence informed or evidence-based strategies to reduce and address burnout, suicide, mental health conditions and substance use disorder and enhance resiliency.
- Provide support to HRSA’s health workforce resiliency grant recipients to facilitate the exchange of best practices and lessons learned to promote mental and behavioral health and to address suicide, burnout and substance use among the health workforce.
- Enhance and establish data collection tools and protocols for national provider resiliency efforts.
- Create and develop long-term sustainability practices/models for innovative approaches for provider resiliency and burnout.
- Conduct evaluation studies to ensure that program meets its internal benchmarks.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Annual Available FY 2022 Funding: $6,000,000
- Estimated Number and Type of Award(s): One cooperative agreement
- Estimated Award Amount: Up to $2,000,000 per year
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants for the HPSWRTAC are:
- Health professions schools, academic health centers, state or local governments, Indian Tribes and tribal organizations, or other appropriate public or private nonprofit entities (or consortia of entities, including entities promoting multidisciplinary approaches).
- Entities providing health care, including health care providers associations and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs).
- Individuals are not eligible to apply under this NOFO.
- Applicants that are institutions of higher education, health professions schools, and academic health centers must be accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting body. These applicants must submit their accreditation documentation. Failure to attach a copy of the required accreditation documentation as Attachment 4 will be considered non-responsive, and applications will not be considered for funding under this announcement.
- Applicants are required to maintain their accreditation throughout the period of performance and notify HRSA of any change in status. Eligible entities must be located in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, America Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the Republic of Palau.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=334774
