The Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) has announced the opportunity to apply for funding under the Community Health Worker and Health Support Worker Training Program (CHWTP).
Donor Name: Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Program
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/14/2022
Grants Size: up to $3,000,000
Details:
The purpose of the CHWTP is to support projects that will increase the number of Community Health Workers (CHWs) and Health Support Workers and equip them with the skillsets needed to provide effective community outreach build trust with communities, support connections to and retention in care and support services, and other strategies to increase access to care and to assist individuals in prevention services, and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and other public health emergencies in underserved communities. These combined efforts are intended to advance public health, strengthen the public health workforce, reduce health disparities, and help underserved populations achieve health equity.
Objectives
- Expansion
- Extension/Upskilling
- Employment
- Health Equity
Program Goals
- Expand the public health workforce by training new and existing CHWs and health support workers with specialized training and financial support to offset expenses that would impede success in training. The Program’s goal is to provide training so that 75% of participants become newly credentialed CHWs and health support workers.
- Extend and up skill the public health workforce by developing new or enhancing existing curriculums to increase the skills and competencies of existing CHWs and health support workers.
- Increase CHW and health support worker employment readiness through field placements and apprenticeships developed in collaboration with a network of partnerships that will enable trainees to respond to and support essential public health services and provide them with employment opportunities.
- Advance health equity and support for underserved communities by increasing the number of CHWs and health support workers that are employed as integral members of integrated care teams that use their expanded skills to reduce health disparities.
Funding Information
- HRSA estimates approximately $226,500,000 to be available to fund an estimated 75 recipients.
- You may apply for up to a ceiling amount of up to $3,000,000 total cumulative costs, or up to a ceiling amount of $1,000,000 per year (includes both direct and indirect/facilities and administrative costs).
Eligibility Criteria
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- County governments
- 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
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- State governments
- Private institutions of higher education
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
