Project Grant D18HP13625

The Hope Program, Inc. received a $199,933 cooperative agreement award from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 under the Brownfields Job Training Cooperative Agreements federal grant program (CFDA 66.815). The award will fund the Hope Program to recruit, train, and place unemployed and underemployed residents of the Bronx, New York in environmental careers with skills needed for remediation work at solid and hazardous waste sites. Training includes 107 instructional hours in 40-hour...

The Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education awarded a $500,000 project grant to Advocate Health & Hospitals Corp to support the Advocate Health Career Pipeline Program. The 3-year grant, awarded on June 1, 2023, will fund efforts to develop career pathways in the healthcare field and address community risk factors contributing to violence. As a not-for-profit health system, Advocate Health & Hospitals Corp will use the federal funding to construct...

South Carolina State University received a $6 million Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professionals under the Public Health Training Centers Program (CFDA 93.516) to implement a Community Health Worker Training Program. The program will establish educational curricula to train and enable new Community Health Workers and health support workers to acquire core competencies and public health...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $250,000 Rural Health Care Services Outreach Grant under CFDA 93.912 to the Hawaii Island Community Health Center (HICHC) to implement the "Pono Pulse Primary Care Project." This 4-year project aims to provide an expanded and enhanced effort to address the healthcare needs of high-risk Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries in rural Hawaii County with complex and chronic...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant to High Plains Community Health Center (HPCHC) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224). The funding will provide $500,000 per year from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2026 to increase healthcare access for the approximately 23,000 residents across four frontier counties in southeastern Colorado and western Kansas served by HPCHC. As a Federally...

The Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $589,000 Project Grant under the Community Health Centers program (CFDA 93.224) to HPM Foundation, Inc. (Healthpromed), a non-profit organization that provides integrated healthcare services to low-income and underserved populations through a network of community health centers. This 3-year grant, awarded on Sep 1, 2023, will enable Healthpromed to support the delivery of primary care,...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $438,065 Project Grant under the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) program to Eastern Oklahoma State College (CFDA 93.359). Through the "Rural Nursing Pathways: Providing Accessible Education for Underserved Nursing Students" program, EASTERN will address critical nursing workforce needs in rural southeastern Oklahoma. The funding will provide financial...

This Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professionals provides $749,100 to Ochsner Clinic Foundation under the Public Health Training Centers Program (CFDA 93.516) from September 15, 2022 to September 14, 2025. The funding will support Ochsner Health System's expansion and enhancement of its existing community health worker (CHW) training program and apprenticeship in Louisiana. Key deliverables...

The Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professionals awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to Northeast Ohio Medical University under the Health Professions Student Loans, Including Primary Care Loans and Loans for Disadvantaged Students program (CFDA 93.342). The grant will support the provision of long-term, low-interest loans to students pursuing health professions degrees from July 1, 2021 to June 6, 2079 to increase educational...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $402,028 Project Grant to the MHA Health Research & Educational Foundation Inc., a non-profit organization, to implement the MS EARN pilot program. This program provided paid, three-semester nursing student externships at the South Sunflower County Hospital, a rural Mississippi hospital, over the 2024-25 academic year. The grant aimed to increase nurse staffing, equip staff to...