Deadline: 14-Jun-22
The Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) has announced the opportunity to apply for funding under the Community Health Worker and Health Support Worker Training Program (CHWTP).
The purpose of the CHWTP is to support projects that will increase the number of Community Health Workers (CHWs) and Health Support Workers and equip them with the skillsets needed to provide effective community outreach build trust with communities, support connections to and retention in care and support services, and other strategies to increase access to care and to assist individuals in prevention services, and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and other public health emergencies in underserved communities. These combined efforts are intended to advance public health, strengthen the public health workforce, reduce health disparities, and help underserved populations achieve health equity.
Objectives
- Expansion
- Extension/Upskilling
- Employment
- Health Equity
Program Goals
- Expand the public health workforce by training new and existing CHWs and health support workers with specialized training and financial support to offset expenses that would impede success in training. The Program’s goal is to provide training so that 75% of participants become newly credentialed CHWs and health support workers.
- Extend and up skill the public health workforce by developing new or enhancing existing curriculums to increase the skills and competencies of existing CHWs and health support workers.
- Increase CHW and health support worker employment readiness through field placements and apprenticeships developed in collaboration with a network of partnerships that will enable trainees to respond to and support essential public health services and provide them with employment opportunities.
- Advance health equity and support for underserved communities by increasing the number of CHWs and health support workers that are employed as integral members of integrated care teams that use their expanded skills to reduce health disparities.
Funding Information
- HRSA estimates approximately $226,500,000 to be available to fund an estimated 75 recipients.
- You may apply for up to a ceiling amount of up to $3,000,000 total cumulative costs, or up to a ceiling amount of $1,000,000 per year (includes both direct and indirect/facilities and administrative costs).
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include:
- Health professions schools, including an accredited school or program of public health, health administration, preventive medicine, or dental public health or a school providing health management programs.
- Academic health centers.
- State or local governments, including state, local and territorial public health departments.
- Any other appropriate public or private non-profit entity such as but not limited to: community colleges, community health centers, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), and community-based organizations, and tribal entities that train public health workers.
- In addition to the 50 states, eligible applicants include the District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. Tribes and Tribal organizations may apply for these funds, if otherwise eligible. Foreign entities and individuals are not eligible for this HRSA award.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=336498