January 22, 2025

New Funding Opportunity – Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program for Paraprofessionals, Apply by March 18

The purpose of the Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program for Paraprofessionals – HRSA-25-066 is to develop and expand community-based experiential training such as field placements and internships to increase the skills, knowledge and capacity of students preparing to become mental health workers, peer support specialists, and other behavioral health paraprofessionals.

The program has a special focus on developing knowledge and understanding of the needs of children, adolescents, and transitional age youth who have experienced trauma and are at risk for behavioral health disorders including anxiety, depression, and substance use disorder.

Eligible applicants include:

• Faith-based and community-based organizations
• Hospitals
• HRSA funded health centers and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)
• Public and private institutions of higher education
• Rural health clinics
• State, city, county, township, and special district governments
• State-licensed mental health nonprofit and for-profit organizations
• Tribal governments and tribal organizations

Please view the NOFO on Grants.gov for complete eligibility information.

Apply by March 18, 2025, 11:59 p.m. ET

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January 22, 2025

New Funding Opportunity – HRSA Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies (Rural MOMS) Program, Apply by April 22

The Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies (Rural MOMS) Program from the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) is open and accepting applications for the program’s 4-year period of performance (September 30, 2025 – September 29, 2029).

Rural MOMS funds networks that establish or continue collaborative improvement and innovative models that can provide long-term sustainable and financially viable service delivery to improve maternal and infant health outcomes. The work of these networks supports the goal of the program to improve maternal and infant health outcomes and access to and delivery of maternity and obstetrics care in rural areas and reduce preventable maternal mortality risks and decrease severe maternal morbidity in rural areas.

A technical assistance webinar via Zoom is scheduled for applicants on Wednesday, February 12, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Click Here to see examples of previously funded projects under this program.

For more information about this funding opportunity, contact RMOMS@hrsa.gov.

Apply by April 22, 2025.

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January 21, 2025

Notice of Funding Opportunity: HRSA Rural Program of All-Inclusive for the Elderly Planning and Development

The Rural Program of All-Inclusive for the Elderly (PACE) Planning and Development grant is open and accepting applications for the program’s 4-year period of performance (September 30, 2025 – September 29, 2029). The purpose of this program is to improve health care in rural areas, including expanding access to medical care and long-term services, for rural aging populations by expanding PACE programs into rural areas.

Program Goals:

• Provide start-up funding for organizations to develop a new PACE site serving the aging rural population.
• Provide funding for organizations to expand existing PACE programs into rural areas through service area expansion.
• Implement sustainable PACE programs that will effectively serve critical health care needs for rural aging populations.

This funding will support organizations to develop an initial PACE program or expand an existing PACE organization into rural areas.

HRSA will make up to 4 awards, up to $500,000 per year, to provide resources to assist with the development of an initial Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (DMS) PACE program serving HRSA-designated rural areas or to expand an existing certified CMS PACE programs into HRSA-designated rural areas through PACE service area expansion.

Eligible Applicants

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

Click Here to Learn More and Apply

For more information about this funding opportunity, contact RuralPACE@hrsa.gov

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.

Click Here to Learn More

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.

Click Here to See Full Details

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.

Click Here to Learn More and Apply

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