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.

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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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