Deadline: 11-Apr-25
The Oregon Office of Rural Health’s Helping EMS in Rural Oregon (HERO) program raises funds to help rural and remote (formerly referred to as “frontier”) emergency medical services (EMS) volunteers pay for their training.
If you represent a rural or remote EMS agency that wishes to conduct an in-house training, and perhaps include EMS personnel from surrounding communities, this grant is for you. Funds may also be used to send staff to training that cannot be offered locally. You may apply for funding for any training class or exercise completed within 12 months of receipt of the award.
Funding Information
- Rural and/or remote agencies may apply for awards of up to $2,500 each.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for HERO grant funds, you must be an EMS organization that meets both of the following criteria:
- Located in a rural community. Rural is defined as all geographic areas 10 or more miles from the centroid of a population center of 40,000 or more.
- Recognized by the Oregon Health Authority EMS & Trauma Systems Program as an organization that participates in Oregon’s 9-1-1 response system.
- Priority will be given to applications from agencies:
- Located in counties designated as rural remote: (Baker, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Wallowa and Wheeler);
- With a high proportion of volunteer staff;
- That are non-profit or public entities; and
- Include participation from, or collaboration with, neighboring rural EMS agencies.
For more information, visit OHSU.
