The Oregon Office of Rural Health is pleased to announce the availability of HERO Rural Oregon EMS agency training grants.
Donor Name: Oregon Office of Rural Health
State: Oregon
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/06/2022
Size of the Grant: Up to $2,500
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
HERO: Helping EMS in Rural Oregon grants are intended to help pay for training classes and exercises sponsored by local EMS organizations. If it is not feasible to conduct local trainings, HERO grants may be used to send staff to training for their Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Advanced EMT (AEMT) or EMT-Intermediate (EMT-I) certification.
The Oregon Office of Rural Health HERO campaign raises funds to help rural and frontier Emergency Medical Services (EMS) volunteers pay for their training.
If you represent a rural EMS agency that wishes to conduct an in-house training, and perhaps include EMS personnel from surrounding communities, this grant is for you. Funds may also be used to send staff to training that cannot be offered locally. You may apply for funding for any training class or exercise completed within 12 months of receipt of the award.
Funding Information
Four awards of up to $2,500 each will be funded.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are rural or frontier EMS agencies only.
- Applicants may request up to $2,500. Matching funds or other resources are required.
- Priority will be given to applications from agencies:
- Located in frontier counties (Baker, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Wallowa and Wheeler);
- With a high proportion of volunteer staff;
- That are non-profit or public entities; and
- Include participation from, or collaboration with, neighboring rural EMS agencies.
- Awardees have a maximum of one year, from the receipt of the grant, in which to expend funds.
- Successful applicants are required to submit a report within one month of the completion of the proposed training. The report must include number of people who successfully completed the training and an accounting of how the funds were spent.
- To be eligible for HERO: Helping EMS in Rural Oregon grant funds, you must be an EMS organization that meets both of the following criteria:
- Located in a rural community. Rural is defined as all geographic areas 10 or more miles from the centroid of a population center of 40,000 or more.
- Recognized by the Oregon Health Authority EMS & Trauma Systems Program as an organization that participates in Oregon’s 9-1-1 response system.
For more information, visit ORH.
