The Pediatric Pulmonary Centers Program is designed to provide interdisciplinary training to improve the health of infants, children, and adolescents with chronic respiratory conditions, sleep issues, and other related special health care needs.
Donor Name: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/18/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The PPCs strive to improve systems of care and increase access to pediatric pulmonary care for children with complex health care needs.
The PPC program’s goals are to:
- Assemble interdisciplinary cohorts comprised of graduate or post-graduate trainees.
- Recruit and retain diverse PPC trainees and faculty, emphasizing groups underrepresented in the maternal and child health (MCH) workforce.
- Engage people who have lived experience with chronic respiratory conditions, and/or their family members.
- Strengthen academic-practice partnerships with Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant (Title V) agencies and community partners.
The program objectives to be accomplished during the period of performance are to:
- Develop and implement an interdisciplinary PPC curriculum.
- Recruit at least one trainee in each of these fields annually:
- Pediatric pulmonary medicine.
- Nursing.
- Nutrition.
- Social work.
- A needs-based discipline based on workforce shortages in your area or region.
- Recruit and retain trainees from backgrounds that are underrepresented in the MCH workforce, including but not limited to trainees from economically disadvantaged and racially/ethnically underrepresented backgrounds.
- Engage at least one person or family member of a person with lived experience with chronic respiratory conditions annually as a trainee, staff, or partner.
- Develop and enhance partnerships with at least one state Title V agency and at least one other MCH organization.
Funding Information
- Expected total available funding in FY 2025: $2,065,000.
- Funding range per award: Up to $340,000 per year.
Grant Period
July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2030.
Eligibility Criteria
- Who can apply?
- You may apply if you are an institution of higher learning, meaning:
- Any college or university accredited by a regionalized body or bodies approved for such purpose by the Secretary of Education.
- Any teaching hospital which has higher learning among its purposes and functions and which has a formal affiliation with an accredited school of medicine and a full time academic medical staff holding faculty status in such school of medicine.
- You may apply if you are an institution of higher learning, meaning:
- Types of eligible organizations
- These types of domestic organizations may apply.
- “Domestic” means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
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