January 13, 2025

New Funding Available: Rural Residency Planning and Development Program, Apply by April 10, 2025

The Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) Program, HRSA-25-007, is open and accepting applications for the program’s 3-year period of performance (August 1, 2025 – July 31, 2028). The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will make up to 15 awards, each up to $750,000, to improve and expand access to health care in rural areas by developing new sustainable rural residency programs, including rural track programs (RTPs).

Eligible applicants include all domestic public and private, nonprofit or for-profit, entities. Applicants must propose a new rural residency program in a qualifying medical specialty.

Qualifying medical specialties are:

• Family medicine
• Internal medicine
• Preventive medicine
• Psychiatry
• General surgery, and
• Obstetrics and gynecology

For this notice of funding opportunity, rural residency programs are accredited physician residency programs, train residents in clinical training sites that are physically located in a rural area as defined by HRSA’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) for greater than 50 percent of their total time in residency and focus on producing physicians who will practice in rural communities.

Successful RRPD Program awardees will:

1. Develop a new rural residency program that is accredited by Accreditation Council for Graduated Medical Education;
2. Finalize a sustainability plan, which includes ongoing funding streams to sustain long-term resident training after program establishment; and
3. Develop a plan to track and publicly report on resident career outcomes after graduation for at least 5 years after the first graduating class to assess retention in rural communities.

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Click Here to attend a technical assistance webinar, via Zoom, on Wednesday, January 23, 2:00 p.m. ET

A list of previously funded grants under this program are available here.

Applicants may also benefit from the resources and tools in the RuralGME.org portal (registration required).

For questions about this funding opportunity email: ruralresidency@hrsa.gov.

December 31, 2024

Notice of Funding Opportunity: RCORP Overdose Response, HRSA-25-010

The Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) – Overdose Response is a one-year program supporting improved health care in rural areas by addressing their immediate and short-term needs related to provision of substance use disorder services. RCORP – Overdose Response aims to reduce and prevent the risk of overdoses in rural areas. HRSA will make approximately 20 awards of up to $300,000 each.

The RCORP – Overdose Response Program will support specific, short-term substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery activities, as well as work related to capacity building, supportive services, and special populations.

RCORP Overdose Response funds MUST ONLY be used to support activities from the list of allowable activities described in the HRSA-25-010-Full Announcement document located Here.

Eligible organizations include all domestic public or private, non-profit, or for-profit entities.

The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) will hold a webinar for applicants on Thursday January 30, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. ET.

Click Here to Read Full Announcement and Apply

For more information about this funding opportunity, contact the Program Coordinator, Diana Wang, at ruralopioidresponse@hrsa.gov.

December 31, 2024

New Funding Opportunity: FY 25 Delta Health Systems Implementation Program (DSIP), Apply by March 20

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) Federal Office of Rural Health Policy’s (FORHP’s) Delta Health System’s Implementation Program (DSIP) funding opportunity for FY25 is open and accepting applications – HRSA-25-032 for the program’s two-year period of performance (September 1, 2025-August 31, 2027).

HRSA expects to award five rural healthcare organizations, up to $400,000 each, to enhance healthcare delivery in rural areas by implementing projects that will improve financial sustainability and increase access to care.

Eligible applicants include:

• Critical access hospitals
• Small rural hospitals
• Rural health clinics
• Tribal healthcare facilities, and
• other healthcare organizations located in a rural county or parish in the Delta region.

Applicants must propose projects based on recommendations received from previous technical assistance (TA) provided through the Delta Region Community Health Systems Development Program or another similar TA program within the last five years.

Examples of implementation projects include, but are not limited to:

• Financial and Operational:
  • Developing new service lines,
  • Increasing inpatient and swing bed volume,
  • Increasing outpatient services,
  • Implementing revenue cycle best practices to increase point of service collections, and
  • Optimizing emergency department operations.
• Quality:
  • Reducing readmissions,
  • Improving transitions of care and discharge planning,
  • Implementing performance measurement systems,
  • Clinical documentation integrity training, and
  • Utilizing data analytics.
• Telehealth:
  • Expanding telehealth services and enhancing cybersecurity.
• Workforce:
  • Recruitment initiatives,
  • Implementing new technology to increase clinical efficiency,
  • Simulation training for clinicians, and
  • Leadership training such as rounding to improve patient and employee satisfaction.

Applications Due by March 20, 2025

A technical assistance webinar via Zoom will be held for applicants on Wednesday, January 8, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern.

Interested applicants should start registrations in grants.gov and sam.gov ASAP.

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For more information about this funding opportunity, contact the Program Coordinator, Suzanne Snyder, at RuralHospitals@hrsa.gov.

December 31, 2024

HRSA Funding Opportunity: Graduate Psychology Education Program – HRSA-25-067, Apply by January 21

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW), Division of Nursing and Public Health is accepting applications for the Graduate Psychology Education Program – HRSA-25-067.

The purpose of this program is to train doctoral health service psychology students, interns, and postdoctoral residents in integrated, interdisciplinary behavioral health, with significant focus on trauma-informed care and substance use disorder prevention and treatment services.

The program will prepare trainees for practice in community-based primary care settings in high need and high demand areas. To support trainees, the program will also focus on developing health service psychology faculty.

Who Can Apply:

• Public and private institutions of higher education,
• HRSA-funded health centers, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and rural health clinics,
• State, county, city, township, and special district governments,
• Nonprofits with or without a 501(c)(3) IRS status,
• Native American tribal governments and organizations

**Individuals are not eligible to apply**

Please Note: Training programs of either the applicant or a partner organization must be accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency approved for such purposes by the U.S. Department of Education.

Award Information

• Awardees may receive up to $450,000 per year for three years,
• The three-year period of performance is July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2028,
• $22.8 million is available annually for approximately 50 awards.

Apply by January 21, 2025

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December 31, 2024

HRSA Funding Opportunity: Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program for Professionals (BHWET-Pro) – HRSA-25-068

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program for Professionals (BHWET-Pro) – HRSA-25-068. This program will help address the behavioral health needs of children, adolescents, and young adults in high need and high demand areas.

The goal of the program is to increase the supply of behavioral health professionals and improve the distribution of a well-trained workforce, with a specific focus on understanding the needs of children, adolescents, and young adults at risk for mental health, trauma, and behavioral health disorders.

Awardees will:

• Increase the number of new or expanded community partnerships with training sites in high-need and high-demand areas,
• Promote collaborative training by using team-based models of care to integrate behavioral health care into interprofessional primary care settings,
• Recruit a diverse workforce interested in working with children, adolescents, and young adults, and
• Recruit, develop, and expand the capacity to train clinical supervisors to support and mentor behavioral health trainees.

Award Information:

• May receive up to $600,000 per year for four years
• A four-year period of performance: July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2029
• $59.6 million is available annually for approximately 100 awards

Who Can Apply:

Eligible programs include accredited:

• Professional training programs in certain mental health disciplines,
• Doctoral, internship, and post-doctoral residency programs of health service psychology,
• Master’s and doctoral degree programs of social work

Eligible organizations include:

• Public and private institutions of higher education,
• HRSA-funded health centers, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and rural health clinics,
• State, county, city, township, and special district governments,
• Nonprofits with or without a 501(c)(3) IRS status,
• Native American tribal governments and organizations.

Individuals are not eligible to apply.

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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

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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

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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