Category: Funding

Faculty Loan Repayment Program Application Deadline Extended

June 30, 2023

Faculty Loan Repayment Program Application Deadline Extended

The Faculty Loan Repayment Program application deadline has been EXTENDED until Thursday, July 13 at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Check out the trending questions received by the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) in last week’s Q & A session to help you finish your application.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is the difference between the Faculty Loan Repayment Program and the Nurse Faculty Loan Program?
    •  The Faculty Loan Repayment Program is a loan repayment program for individuals serving as faculty members (including nurse faculty) at a health professions school. The Nurse Faculty Loan Program is a grant program for nursing schools that offer scholarships to nursing students who intend to serve as nurse faculty.
  •  How do I prove a disadvantaged background?
    • You must submit official documentation indicating that you come from an economically or environmentally disadvantaged background. You are encouraged to submit the Faculty Loan Repayment Program’s Disadvantaged Background Form (available in the online application), signed by a school official from a school you previously attended, as the official document.
  • If my university denies matching, will I still be eligible?
    • Yes. For institutions that are unable to provide matching loan repayments, applicants must provide an official letter from the employer requesting a full or partial waiver explaining the undue financial hardship.
  • If my employer only issues one-year contracts, am I eligible?
    • You must be employed by your site for two years; if your contract does not show two years, we will accept documentation from your employer on official letterhead stating their intent to employ you for a minimum of two years.
  • Can I work at a for-profit health professions school?
    • Employing schools of nursing and physician assistant programs are eligible if they are accredited public, private non-profit, or private for-profit. Employing schools for all other eligible health disciplines must be accredited non-profit to be eligible.
  • Can I make changes to my application after it is submitted?
    • No, you cannot make changes to your application once you have submitted it. Please check your application and documents prior to submission.

Before you apply:

Start Your Application:

For more information and resources, please review the Faculty Loan Repayment Program webpage.

Finish Your Application

 

USDA Announces Over $84 Million to Connect people in Rural Missouri to High-Speed Internet

June 16, 2023

USDA Announces Over $84 Million to Connect people in Rural Missouri to High-Speed Internet

On June 13, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development State Director in Missouri Kyle Wilkens announced $84.6 million in grants and loans to connect thousands of rural residents, farmers and business owners in rural Missouri to reliable, affordable high-speed internet.

“The ReConnect program helps to build high-speed internet infrastructure connecting small business owners to customers and markets in other parts of the state, around the country, and worldwide,” said Wilkens. “It also expands educational opportunities for students and enables rural households to access medical care, particularly to specialists, without leaving their homes. For too long many rural communities in Missouri have been left out of the digital economy. High-speed internet is now the lynch pin for rural communities to grow. For farmers in rural communities, a fast-growing market of smart technology designed specifically for agriculture can give them real-time access to vital information from sensors placed around their land holdings. The ReConnect program is allowing our rural communities and producers to keep up with the ever-evolving need for high-speed internet.

Under President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes $65 billion to connect everyone to high-speed internet through the Internet for All initiative. USDA is connecting more people to high-speed internet in this fourth funding round of the ReConnect Program. Since the beginning of the Biden-Harris Administration, the Department has invested in 142 ReConnect projects that will bring high-speed internet access to 314,000 rural Americans.

Investment highlights include:

  • Goodman Telephone Company Inc. will connect nearly 7,000 people, 206 farms, 140 businesses and two educational facilities to high-speed internet in McDonald and Newton counties.
  • The Seneca Telephone Company will connect nearly 7,000 people, 240 farms, 178 businesses and 12 educational facilities to high-speed internet in McDonald and Newton counties.
  • Ozark Telephone Company will connect nearly 7,000 people, 188 farms, 171 businesses, and six educational facilities to high-speed internet in McDonald County, Missouri and Benton County, Arkansas.

Today’s investments in Missouri are in coordination with the recent announcement made by U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, that highlights $714 million in USDA investments in 19 states:

  • Alaska
  • Arkansas
  • Arizona
  • California
  • Georgia
  • Idaho
  • Kansas
  • Kentucky
  • Minnesota
  • Missouri
  • Montana
  • New Mexico
  • Ohio
  • Oklahoma
  • Oregon
  • South Carolina
  • Tennessee
  • Utah
  • Washington

For more information, please view a full listing of projects.

Applicants to ReConnect Program funding must:

  • Serve a rural area that lacks access to service at speeds of 100 megabits per second (Mbps) download and 20 Mbps upload
  • Applicants must also commit to building facilities capable of providing high-speed internet service with speeds of 100 Mbps (download and upload) to every location in the proposed service area
  • Additionally, to ensure that rural households that need internet service can afford it, all awardees will be required to apply to participate in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). The ACP offers a discount of up to $30 per month towards internet service to qualifying low-income households and up to $75 per month for households on qualifying Tribal Lands.

For assistance with or questions regarding any of USDA’s high-speed internet programs, please contact a Missouri General Field Representative.

Contact USDA Rural Development:

Information on programs available through USDA Rural Development is available by visiting www.rd.usda.gov/mo

Call (573) 876-0976

Email: RDMissouri@usda.gov.

If you’d like to subscribe to Missouri USDA Rural Development updates, visit the GovDelivery subscriber page.

Notice of Funding Opportunity: HRSA-23-120 – Maternity Care Nursing Workforce Expansion (MatCare) Program

June 16, 2023

Notice of Funding Opportunity: HRSA-23-120 – Maternity Care Nursing Workforce Expansion (MatCare) Program

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to grow and diversify the maternal and perinatal health nursing workforce through education and training support.

The Maternity Nursing Workforce Expansion (MatCare) Program – HRSA-23-120 will increase the number of certified nurse midwives (CNMs) and diversify the maternal and perinatal health workforce, expand maternal health training and curriculum, and strengthen community-based partnerships. The program seeks to grow and diversify the maternal and perinatal health nursing workforce through support for education and training in rural and underserved communities.

Program Goals:

  • Increase the number of Certified Nurse Midwives (CNM) and diversify the maternal and perinatal health nursing workforce
  • Enhance maternal health training to better address maternal mental health, maternal mortality, and morbidity risk factors
  • Strengthen community-based training partnerships

HRSA will award $8 million to up to 8 grantees over a period of four years through this funding opportunity.

Eligible applicants include:

  • Accredited schools of nursing, nursing centers, academic health centers
  • Domestic community-based organizations
  • Tribes and tribal organizations
  • State or local governments
  • Other private or public non-profit entities

View the funding opportunity on Grants.gov for complete eligibility information.

The application deadline is 11:59 p.m. ET on July 14, 2023.

Apply Here

 

Funding Opportunity: Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training – Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults (BHWET-CAY) Program for Professionals –HRSA-23-131

June 16, 2023

Funding Opportunity: Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training – Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults (BHWET-CAY) Program for Professionals – HRSA-23-131

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) HRSA-23-131 to address the behavioral health needs of children, adolescents, and young adults by increasing the supply and distribution of behavioral health providers in rural and underserved communities.

The Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training-Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults (BHWET-CAY) Program for Professionals will enhance trainees’ knowledge, skills, and expertise through clinical and experiential training. The program also invests in the supply of, and training for clinical supervisors.

HRSA will award approximately $9.7 million to up to 18 grantees over a period of two years through this funding opportunity.

Program Goals:

Establish training opportunities for trainees in community-based settings serving children, adolescents, young adults

Prioritizing settings in underserved and rural communities

Increasing the number of clinical supervisors for behavioral health professional trainees working with children, adolescents, and your adults

Enhancing training opportunities for new and existing faculty and clinical supervisors focused on the behavioral health needs of children, adolescents, and young adults

Providing assistance and supports to connect graduates with employment opportunities

Eligible applicants include:

  • Accredited institutions of higher education or accredited professional training programs in mental health
  • Accredited doctoral, internship, and post-doctoral residency programs of health service psychology of health service psychology
  • Accredited master’s and doctoral degree programs of social work
  • Domestic community-based organizations
  • Tribes and tribal organizations

The application deadline is 11:59 p.m. ET on July 14, 2023

View the funding opportunity on Grants.gov for complete eligibility information.

Apply Here

Now Open: New Pediatric Specialty Loan Repayment Program

June 13, 2023

Now Open: New Pediatric Specialty Loan Repayment Program

Eligible clinicians providing pediatric medical subspecialty, pediatric surgical specialty, or child and adolescent mental and behavioral health care can take advantage of the new Pediatric Specialty Loan Repayment Program (LRP) and receive up to $100,000 in loan repayment. In exchange, you must work full-time for three years in a Pediatric Specialty LRP-approved facility.

Why Apply:

  • Up to $100,000 in loan repayment

What You Have to Do:

  • If you receive an award, you must work full-time for three (3) years in a Pediatric Specialty LRP-approved facility

Eligibility:

You Must Be:

  • A United States citizen, national, or permanent resident
  • Fully licensed or credentialed in an eligible discipline
  • One of the following:
  • A full-time employee or a clinician who has accepted a position located in a Pediatric Specialty LRP-approved facility located in or serving a health professional shortage area (HPSA) or medically underserved area (MUA), or a medically underserved population (MUP)
  • A health professional entering or receiving training in an accredited pediatric medical subspecialty, pediatric surgical specialty residency, or fellowship

Eligible Disciplines and Subspecialties:

Physicians

  • Allopathic (MD)
  • Osteopathic (DO)
    • Subspecialties
      • Pediatric medical subspecialists
      • Pediatric surgical specialists
      • Child and adolescent psychiatrists

Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Providers

  • Psychologists
  • Licensed clinical social workers (LCSW)
  • Licensed or certified master’s level social workers (LSW or LCMSW)
  • Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner
  • Marriage and family therapists (MFT)
  • Licensed professional counselors (LPC)
  • Substance use disorder (SUD) counselors
    • Subspecialties
      • Pediatrics
      • SUD prevention and treatment services

Don’t miss this opportunity to help others while paying off your loans.

The application is open now through July 20 at 7:30 p.m. ET

Do you have questions about the Pediatric Specialty Loan Repayment Program?

Click Here to join the Pediatric Specialty LRP Application Assistance Webinar, Wednesday, June 21, 1 – 2:30 p.m. ET

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Updates to Requirements for Buprenorphine Prescribing

June 12, 2023

Updates to Requirements for Buprenorphine Prescribing

As announced by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in January 2023, clinicians no longer need a federal waiver to prescribe buprenorphine for treatment of opioid use disorder.  Clinicians will still be required to register with the federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to prescribe controlled medications.

Beginning on June 27, the DEA registration will require applicants – both new and renewing – to affirm they have completed a new, one-time, eight-hour training.

Exceptions for the new training requirement are practitioners who are board certified in addiction medicine or addiction psychiatry, and those who graduated from a medical, dental, physician assistant, or advanced practice nursing school in the U.S. within five years of June 27, 2023.

Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) still have the opportunity to apply for a $3,000 payment on behalf of each provider who trained between January 1, 2019 and January 25, 2023 (when Congress eliminated the waiver requirement).

Approximately $900,000 in program funding remains available for RHCs and will be paid on a first-come, first-served basis until funds are exhausted.

Send questions to DATA2000WaiverPayments@hrsa.gov.

New Funding Opportunity: Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program – Apply by July 13.

June 12, 2023

New Funding Opportunity: Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program – Apply by July 13.

The Star LRP application is open now through July 13, 7:30 p.m. ET

Eligible substance use disorder (SUD) treatment clinicians and community health workers can apply to receive up to $250,000 in educational loan repayment in exchange for working full-time for six years at an approved facility. Our announcement about this last week incorrectly linked to HRSA’s Faculty Loan Repayment Program.

Why Apply:

Up to $250,000 in educational loan repayment

Expectations if Awarded:

If you receive an award, you must work full-time for six years in a STAR LRP-approved facility.

Eligibility:

  • United State citizen, national, or permanent resident
  • Fully licensed, credentialed in an eligible discipline, a registered SUD professional; AND
  • Full-time employee at a STAR LRP-approved facility

Important Resources:

Questions:

Call 1-800-221-9393/TTY: 1-877-897-9910

OR

Use Contact Form

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Modification to PMHCA Funding Opportunity – HRSA-23-081

June 9, 2023

Modification to PMHCA Funding Opportunity – HRSA-23-081

Please note that the notice of funding opportunity for the Pediatric Mental Health Care Access (PMHCA) Program has been modified. Modifications have been made to eligibility criteria and to award amounts. The new application due date is June 22, 2023.

There are three types of awards available through this funding opportunity:

  1. Competing continuation awards
    • Eligible “competing continuation” applicants are entities that received an award in FY 2018 and 2019 and whose project period is ending. View the list of all currently funded PMHCA projects.
    • Up to $700,000 per award
  1. New applicants with previous HRSA PMHCA implementation experience
    • Eligible applicants include states, political subdivisions of states, territories, and Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations not currently funded in FY 2021 or 2022.
    • Up to $700,000 per award
  1. New applicants with no prior HRSA PMHCA implementation experience
    • New applicants with no prior HRSA PMHCA experience: Eligible applicants include States, political subdivisions of states, territories, and Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations not currently funded in FY 2021 or 2022.
    • NOTE: Tribes and tribal organizations that are located within the geographic boundaries of states with existing awards are eligible to apply for new awards.)
    • Up to $500,000 per award

To view and access this modified opportunity package, please see:

The Pediatric Mental Health Care Access (PMHCA) NOFO (HRSA-23-081)

  • Click on “Package”
  • Click on “Preview”
  • Click on “Download Instructions”

For questions related to the PMHCA Program, please contact Madhavi Reddior Jordanna Snyder.

For help with your application, watch our April 20, 2023 PMHCA Pre-Application TA Webinar #1.  This webinar is for both new and competing continuation applicants.

New applicants can watch our April 26, 2023 PMHCA Pre-Application TA Webinar #2.

New Funding Opportunity – Primary Care Training and Enhancement – Language and Disability Access (PCTE-LDA) HRSA-23-123

June 1, 2023

New Funding Opportunity – Primary Care Training and Enhancement – Language and Disability Access (PCTE-LDA) HRSA-23-123

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a New Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) HRSA-23-123 – Primary Care Training and Enhancement – Language and Disability Access (PCTE-LDA) to develop curricula and to train medical students, physician assistant students, and primary care medical residents to provide high quality primary care services to individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) and/or individuals with physical disabilities and/or intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) with goals of improving health outcomes for these populations.

Eligible applicants include:

  • Accredited public or nonprofit private hospitals;
  • Schools of allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine;
  • Academically accredited affiliated physician assistant training programs;
  • Accredited residency training programs in family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics, or combined general internal medicine and general pediatrics (“med-peds”); or
  • Tribes and tribal organizations, if otherwise eligible.

HRSA anticipates awarding $8 million to 16 recipients over a period of five years through this funding opportunity.

View the grant opportunity for complete eligibility information

Funding Opportunity: Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) – Simulation Education Training (SET) Program – HRSA-23-129

June 1, 2023

Funding Opportunity: Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) – Simulation Education Training (SET) Program – HRSA-23-129

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to advance the health of patients, families, and communities in rural or medically underserved areas nationwide.

The Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEQPR)-Simulation Education Training (SET) Program aims to increase the number and capacity of nursing students to address the health care needs and improve patient outcomes of rural and/or medically underserved populations.

Program Objectives:

  • Implement or expand academic-clinical partnerships to create experiential learning opportunities that prepare nursing students to efficiently address health equity for rural and underserved populations.
  • Increase the diversity of the nursing workforce to better address the needs of the populations they serve by recruiting and supporting students and faculty, including those from diverse populations.

Eligible applicants include:

  • Accredited schools of nursing
  • Health care facilities, or a partnership of such a school or facility
  • Domestic community-based organizations
  • Tribes and tribal organizations

HRSA will award approximately $10.5 million to up to 22 grantees over a period of 3 years. Please view the NOFO for complete eligibility information.

The application deadline is July 3, 2023.

View Announcement Here

Apply Here