The Kansas Board of Emergency Medical Services is accepting applications for its Education Incentive Grant Program.
Donor Name: Kansas Board of Emergency Medical Services
State: Kansas
City: Selected Cities
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/15/2022
Size of the Grant: $5,110
Details:
The 2021 Legislature, along with the support of the Governor, approved the Kansas Board of Emergency Medical Services (KBEMS) $375,000 budgeted for FY 2022 to aid rural ambulance services in recruiting, training, and certifying ambulance EMS providers. The money will be awarded in the form of “education and training incentive grants” to licensed ambulance services in rural, frontier, and densely settled rural areas of Kansas.
The purpose of the money is to assist rural and frontier services with the costs associated with becoming a certified EMS provider. It must be clearly understood and agreed upon by the operator of the ambulance service that any dollars awarded through this grant program cannot be used to supplant dollars budgeted to the service. A “Memorandum of Agreement” between the operator and KBEMS addressing this stipulation is included with the grant application. Also required is a “Memorandum of Agreement” between the student and the service which stipulates their responsibility. The grant monies awarded must be utilized as specified in the grant criteria.
Grant money may be requested based on the following three criteria:
- First priority shall be given to ambulance services submitting applications seeking grants to pay the cost of recruiting EMS providers and cost of the initial courses of training for EMS providers and instructor-coordinators.
- Second priority shall be given to ambulance services submitting applications seeking grants to pay the cost of continuing education for EMS providers and instructor-coordinators.
- Third priority shall be given to ambulance services submitting applications seeking grants to pay the cost of education for EMS providers and instructor-coordinators who are obtaining a post-secondary education degree.
Funding Information
Initial Course of Instruction – The following figures are the maximum allowed per student for KBEMS approved Initial Course of Instruction through this grant program:
- EMR – $320.
- EMT – $1,150.
- AEMT – $1,500.
- Paramedic – $5,110.
- Instructor Coordinator – $800.
Eligibility Criteria
- Those eligible for EIG funding would be licensed “ground” services providing care in a frontier, rural, or densely settled rural county or city, based on U.S. census data.
- Frontier (less than 6.0 people per square mile) Rural (6.0 to 19.9 people per square mile)
- Densely settled rural (20.0 to 39.9 people per square mile)
- An eligible student for this program is “a person who agrees to fulfill their year(s) of obligated service with a qualifying licensed ambulance service”. The student must be at least 18 years of age at the time of signing the Memorandum of Agreement.
- All applications will be accepted, but only services located in frontier or rural counties are eligible for funding in the first 3 months of each grant cycle. (July 1 through September 30 and January 1 through March 31).
- After the third month of each cycle, (October 1 and April 1) EMS services located in cities with populations less than 2,000 would also be eligible for funding (Burrton, Mount Hope, Caney, Conway Springs, Caldwell, Canton, Moundridge, Lindsborg, Marquette, Buhler, Haven, Pretty Prairie, Hoisington, Claflin, and Ellinwood,). Although the cities are located in urban or semi-urban counties, the population density of the cities listed are rural, or densely settled rural.
- After the fourth month of each cycle, (November 1 and May 1) the program would open to the densely settled rural counties (blue crosses) and densely settled rural cities with a population between 2,000 and 5,000 (Halstead, Cherryvale, Hesston and Clearwater).
- Only EMS services located in frontier, rural, or densely settled rural counties or cities are eligible. Substations are not eligible. If a service is licensed in a city or county based on EIG eligibility, to obtain eligibility in another city or county area of operation, an additional license would be necessary to identify the city or county as a separate licensed ground service based on the above criteria. For-profit services are not eligible for funding until the after third month and awards will only be approved at 50% per individual (paramedic awards are exempt).
For more information, visit Kansas Board of Emergency Medical Services.
