December 19, 2024

Funding Opportunity: Rural Health Network Development Planning Program, HRSA-25-037, Apply by February 19

The Rural Health Network Development Planning Program supports the planning and development of rural integrated health care networks with specific focus on collaboration of entities to establish or improve local capacity and care coordination in underserved communities. Specifically, the program uses the concept of developing networks as a strategy for linking rural health care network participants together to achieve greater collective capacity to overcome local challenges, expand access and improve the quality of care in the rural communities these organizations serve.

The program helps network participants work together on three legislative aims:

• Achieve efficiencies
• Expand access to, coordinate, and improve the quality of basic health care services and associated health outcomes
• Strengthen the rural health care system as a whole

The intent is that rural health networks will do the following:

• Expand access to care,
• increase the use of health information technology,
• explore alternative health care delivery models, and
• continue to achieve quality health care across the continuum of care.

Examples of previously funded projects under this program can be found online at the Rural Health Information Hub.

Eligible Applicants

• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• City or township governments
• Private institutions of higher education
• For profit organizations other than small businesses
• Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
• State governments
• Independent school districts
• Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
• Special district governments
• County governments
• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education

Click Here to See Examples of Previously Funded Projects

Click Here to Access Evidence-Based Toolkits for Rural Community Health

Click Here to Learn More and Apply

December 19, 2024

Funding Opportunity: Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP) HRSA-25-019, Apply by March 17

The purpose of the Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program  (HTPCP) HRSA-25-019, is to support community-based projects that promote access to preventive clinical and public health services for underserved children.

HTPCP projects must align with at least one of these child health topics:

• Children’s behavioral health screenings and referrals
• Children’s immunizations
• Adolescents’ well-visits

Eligible Applicants

• County governments
• Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Special district governments
• State governments
• City or township governments
• Private institutions of higher education
• Independent school districts
• Small businesses
• For profit organizations other than small businesses
• Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education

Other Eligible Applicants

These types of domestic organizations may apply:

• Public institutions of higher education
• Private institutions of higher education
• Nonprofits with or without a 501(c)(3) IRS status
• For profit organizations, including small business
• State, county, city, township, and special district governments
• Independent school districts
• Native American tribal governments
• Native American tribal organizations

Click Here to Learn More and Apply

December 17, 2024

Open Funding Opportunity: Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program, HRSA-25-038, Apply by January 27

The Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program is a community-based grant program that aims to support organizations to promote rural health care services outreach by improving and expanding the delivery of health care services to include new and enhanced services in rural areas.

To achieve this purpose, the program also aims to strengthen local resources and capacity in rural communities. Through collaborative consortiums that include three or more health care providers, each community can develop innovative approaches to solve their own unique challenges and factors underlying rural health disparities.

Eligible Applicants

• City or township governments
• Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
• Special district governments
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Others (see below)
• Private institutions of higher education
• For profit organizations other than small businesses
• Independent school districts
• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
• County governments
• Small businesses
• State governments

Other Eligible Applicants

• All domestic public or private, non-profit and for-profit entities

Click Here to Learn More and Apply

December 6, 2024

New Funding Available for Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program, HRSA-25-038, Apply by January 27

The Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program (Outreach) is open and accepting applications for the programs’ 4-year period of performance (May 1, 2025 – April 30, 2029). The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will make up to 50 awards to support rural communities to expand the delivery of health care services, HRSA-25-038.

These awards include:

• An estimated 40 awards, each up to $250,000 per year, under the program’s regular track to support healthcare needs identified by the rural community applicant;
• Up to 10 awards, each up to $300,000 per year, under the program’s special track to address the underlying factors that drive rural health disparities related to heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury/substance use, chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke, and maternal health.

Eligible applicants include:

• Nonprofits having a 501 (c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• State governments
• Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
• City or township governments
• For profit organizations other than small businesses
• Special district governments
• Private institutions of higher education
• County governments
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
• Small businesses
• Independent school districts
• Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education

Click Here to Learn More and Apply

October 28, 2024

New Funding Opportunity: Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program for Professionals – HRSA-25-068

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to improve access to behavioral health services.

The purpose of the Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program for Professionals is to increase the supply of behavioral health professionals and improve the distribution of a quality behavioral health workforce. The program has a specific focus on understanding the needs of children, adolescents, and young adults at risk for mental health, trauma, and behavioral health disorders.

The BHWET Program for Professionals prepares the workforce by emphasizing interprofessional team-based models of care, integrating behavioral health training in primary care settings and recruiting a diverse workforce interested in serving high need and high demand areas. The program also invests increasing the number of clinical supervisors.

Eligible Applicants

• Public and private institutions of higher education
• Nonprofit organizations
• Hospitals and rural health clinics
• State and local governments
• Domestic faith-based and community-based organizations
• Tribal governments and organizations

Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. ET on January 21, 2025

Click Here to Apply

October 25, 2024

New Funding Opportunity: Graduate Psychology Education Program

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to increase access to behavioral health services in high demand areas.

The Graduate Psychology Education Program (GPE) -HRSA-25-067 provides training to  doctoral health service psychology students, interns, and post-doctoral residents in integrated, interdisciplinary behavioral health. The program will prepare trainees to provide behavioral health services in community-based primary care settings. The program also supports faculty development in health service psychology.

HRSA will award approximately $22.8 million to up to 50 grantees over a period of three years through this opportunity.

Eligible Applicants:

• Public and private institutions of higher education
• Hospitals and rural health clinics
• HRSA-funded health centers and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)
• Nonprofit organizations
• State and local governments
• Tribal governments and organizations

Applications are due by January 21, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. ET

Click Here to learn more and apply

October 4, 2024

Students to Service Loan Repayment Program (S2S LRP) – apply by November 7

Eligible students in the last year of medical, nursing, or dental school can receive loan repayment assistance from the National Health Service Corp (NHSC) Students to Service Loan Repayment Program (NHSC S2S LRP).

In return, they provide at least three years of full-time service at an NHSC-approved site in a designated Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA).

Click Here for S2S LRP Application Checklist

September 17, 2024

Call for Applications: HRSA Loan Guarantee Program Learning Collaborative

Designed to assist health centers that anticipate conducting a capital project during the next one to three years and are considering the benefits of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Health Center Facility loan Guarantee Program (LGP).

This learning collaborative will address the application, approval, and loan closing process along with key steps for successful capital project planning and financing.

Through a series of interactive learning sessions facilitated by Capital Link Project Consultant, Samantha Schmitt during October 2024, the HRSA LGP Learning Collaborative will provide participants with guidance on all key elements and requirements for submitting a HRSA LGP application, including exercises and customizable planning templates that participants can adapt for their individual organization and projects.

Applications are due on September 27, 2024 to Samantha Schmitt, Project Consultant, at sschmitt@caplink.org

Learn more about the collaborative Here