Project Grant H2E50212

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration's Community Health Centers (CFDA 93.224) program, awarded a $595,024 project grant to Scenic Bluffs Community Health Center (SBCHC) to expand access to behavioral health services in western and southwestern Wisconsin. SBCHC, a Federally Qualified Health Center, will use the funding to add four licensed counselors, a registered nurse to support medication-assisted treatment, psychiatric...

This $556,806 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to examine the short- and long-term impacts of school-based health centers (SBHCs) on student health, education, and economic outcomes. The project will leverage 13 years of data on antidepressant, anti-anxiety, and antipsychotic prescriptions, nearly a decade of Medicaid claims data,...

This federal Project Grant award of $415,000, provided through the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493) administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will support Tapestry 360 Health (doing business as Heartland Health Centers) to relocate and expand their existing school-based health center (SBHC) at Gale Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois. The expanded SBHC will increase the number of exam rooms from two to four, add a behavioral healthcare office, and...

The School-Based Health Alliance received a $1,800,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program (CFDA 93.137). The award will fund a 4-year project to develop and implement care coordination strategies in rural school-based health centers to improve health outcomes for minority youth. The project aims to enhance healthcare access, integrate mental health services, and...

The Spring Branch Community Health Center (SBCHC), a non-profit organization in Houston, Texas, has been awarded a $600,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Community Health Centers (CFDA 93.224) federal grant program. The grant funding, awarded on September 1, 2024, will support SBCHC's efforts to expand comprehensive behavioral health services to the medically underserved population (MUP) in the Spring Branch, West Houston, and Northwest...

The $600,000 FY 2024 Behavioral Health Service Expansion Project Grant, awarded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Community Health Centers program (CFDA 93.224), will enable Salud Integral En La Montana, Inc. (SIM), a nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Center in Puerto Rico, to expand its mental health services and establish a new substance abuse clinic. This funding will address unmet behavioral health needs of the underserved and vulnerable populations in...

The Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) awarded a 3-year, $500,000 Cooperative Agreement to the State of Alaska Department of Health to implement, enhance, and expand Medicaid and CHIP school-based services under the State Grants for the Implementation, Enhancement, and Expansion of Medicaid and CHIP School-Based Services program (CFDA 93.771). This federal grant program, funded through the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, aims to improve healthcare access for children by supporting...

The federal Cooperative Agreement award of $500,000 from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the State Grants for the Implementation, Enhancement, and Expansion of Medicaid and CHIP School-Based Services program (CFDA 93.771) will support the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to implement statewide efforts to expand school-based health services in Oregon. The funding will be used to provide training, technical assistance, and billing guidance to increase student enrollment,...

This $600,000 Project Grant award under the Community Health Centers (CFDA 93.224) program, administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), will fund the expansion of behavioral health and substance use disorder (BH/SUD) services at the Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center in Boston, Massachusetts. The initiative aims to significantly increase BH and SUD programming and capacity to meet the needs of the predominantly low-income, racially and ethnically diverse...

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant to SU Clinica Familiar, a community health center in Harlingen, Texas, under the Community Health Centers (CFDA 93.224) program. The grant will be used to expand pediatric services at the clinic's Brownsville location, including increasing weekday evening and weekend hours. This will enhance access to primary care for the predominantly low-income, Hispanic population in the Rio Grande Valley region along...