Deadline: 24-May-21
The Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease Control is accepting proposals for the Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities Program.
This new grant will address 1) disparities in access to COVID-19 related services, e.g., testing, contact tracing, immunization services etc., and 2) health outcomes and factors that increase risk of severe COVID-19 illness (e.g., chronic diseases, smoking, pregnancy) and poorer outcomes (e.g. health and mental health care access, access to healthy food, health insurance, etc.) which have been exacerbated by COVID-19 by scaling up and sustaining a nation-wide program of CHWs who will support COVID-19 response and prevention in populations at high risk and communities hit hardest by COVID-19.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $ 300,000,000
- Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding: $ 100,000,000
- Total Period of Performance Length: 3 year(s)
Target Populations
- Applicants must identify and focus on populations with increased risk for or prevalence of COVID-19 or who are at increased risk for poor health outcomes from COVID-19 because they are also disproportionately impacted by long-standing health disparities as described in the Executive Summary and Background sections of this announcement.
- Applicants must demonstrate that the proposed catchment area(s) reflect a) the burden of COVID-19 infection rates and/or COVID-19 mortality rates and b) populations disproportionally affected by COVID19 infections; particularly those affected by poverty.
- Catchment areas are defined in this NOFO as a county, metropolitan statistical area(s) or a group of contiguous counties.
- These catchment areas must have significant COVID-19 disease burden, evidence of disproportionate health disparities as evidenced by poverty rates, and sufficient combined populations to allow the strategies supported by this NOFO to reach significant numbers of people (see components below for information on population size).
- Applicants must describe the population selected, including relevant health disparities, and how the selected interventions will improve health and contribute to a more resilient community better able to address threats such as COVID-19
Eligibility Criteria
Government Organizations:
- State (includes the District of Columbia)
- Local governments or their bona fide agents
- Territorial governments or their bona fide agents in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau
- American Indian or Alaska Native tribal governments (federally recognized or state-recognized)
- American Indian or Alaska native tribally designated organizations.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=330543