Project Grant D18HP29032

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...

The Rio Hondo Community College District was awarded a $1,361,661 Project Grant from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) federal grant program. The grant will support the Holistic and Comprehensive HOPE Scholars Program at Rio Hondo College in Pico Rivera, California. The program, which runs from December 31, 2021 through December 31, 2024, aims to provide direct services to housing insecure...

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,...

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...

The Tufts University School of Medicine will provide a Community Health Worker Training Program titled "Community Health Workers Engaging in Integrated Care" (COHERE) through this $4,999,888 Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professionals. The three-year grant period began on September 15, 2022. The program aims to increase diversity among community health workers and improve healthcare...

This federal Project Grant award of $120,406.00 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Grants for New and Expanded Services Under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.527) will support the non-profit organization Hopehealth Inc. in providing expanded and comprehensive primary healthcare services, including medical, dental, behavioral health, and enabling services, to underserved and vulnerable...

The Bronxcare Health System received a $430,334 project grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration on September 1, 2021 to provide primary care HIV prevention services through September 2, 2022. The funding supports the Health Center Program (Community Health Centers, Migrant Health Centers, Health Care for the Homeless, and Public Housing Primary Care), which aims to improve health outcomes for underserved communities through...