The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $2,400,000 Project Grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to the Community Health Foundation of Puerto Rico, Inc. (CHFPR) for their FY 2024 Behavioral Health Service Expansion program. The grant will enable CHFPR to expand mental health, substance use disorder (SUD), and medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services to 282,154 low-income residents across the municipalities of Bayamon, Catano, Dorado, Guaynabo, Toa...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a 2-year, $3,000,000 Project Grant to Migrant Health Center Western Region Inc. (MHC) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224). The purpose of this grant is to increase access to behavioral health services, including mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, in the western regions of Puerto Rico. MHC, a non-profit 501(c)(3) federally qualified health center, will use the funding to hire a multidisciplinary...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,200,000 Project Grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to the Centro De Salud Familiar DR. Julio Palmieri Ferri, Inc., a non-profit hospital organization in Arroyo, Puerto Rico. The grant funding will enable the organization to expand access to specialized mental health and substance use disorder services in the local community. Key strategies include implementing a referral system through the emergency department,...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $2,356,000 Project Grant to Migrant Health Center Western Region Inc. (MHC), a non-profit federally qualified health center in Puerto Rico, under the Community Health Centers program (CFDA 93.224). This 3-year award, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026, will support MHC's delivery of comprehensive primary and preventive healthcare services to underserved communities in...
The Metropolitan Community Health Services, Inc. (MCHS) was awarded a $1,200,000 Project Grant by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to expand behavioral health services in its service area of five rural counties in North Carolina. The funding will enable MCHS, a non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), to increase the number of patients receiving mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services, including...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), through the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224), awarded a $1,200,000 Project Grant to Hospital General De Castaner Inc., doing business as Hospital Castaner, to expand mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services and develop a medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) program. The initiative aims to increase access to these critical services for children, adolescents, adults, and older adults in Castaner and the surrounding...
The Centro De Servicios Primarios De Salud De Patillas, Inc. (CSPSP) was awarded a $1,800,000 Project Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to expand behavioral health services in Patillas, Puerto Rico over a two-year period. The funding will enable CSPSP, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), to significantly increase access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment for a projected 600 new patients, including...
The Municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico was awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to expand behavioral health services for the homeless population in San Juan. The grant will fund the following key services from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025: Increase the number of patients receiving mental health services, with a target of 910 patients served by 2025. Increase the number of patients...
The United Community Health Center-Maria Auxiliadora, Inc. (UCHC) was awarded a $2,400,000 Project Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to expand behavioral health services in its service area in southern Pima County and southern Arizona. The grant will enable UCHC to train its staff in evidence-based practices for treating substance use disorders, expand its clinical staff to include licensed clinical social workers and...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Grants for New and Expanded Services under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.527), will fund a $3,000,000 project over a 2-year period from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2026. The award recipient, Corporacion De Servicios Medicos Y Prevencion (doing business as Centro De Salud Hatillo), a minority-owned non-profit healthcare...
The Morovis Community Health Center, Inc. (MCHC), a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving Puerto Rico, was awarded a $2,400,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224). The grant will fund a 2-year initiative to expand behavioral health services, including treatment for substance use disorder (SUD) and mental health disorders (MHD), in the medically underserved and rural communities of Morovis, Toa Baja, and Vega Alta. Key services to be provided include: expanding SUD treatment capacity by 50 adult patients and providing buprenorphine medication-assisted treatment to 10 opioid-addicted adults at the Morovis clinic; and targeting 75 SUD and 150 MHD patients at the Toa Baja clinic through an interdisciplinary team of providers. The project will also enhance MCHC's collaborative partnerships to address social determinants of health, such as housing insecurity, and utilize evidence-based practices like SBIRT, CBT, and motivational interviewing.