This $2,400,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) will support expanded behavioral health services delivered by Carolina Health Centers, Inc. (CHC), a non-profit community health center in Greenwood, South Carolina. The funding will enable CHC to hire 4 additional behavioral health counselors, an interpreter, and a peer support specialist to increase access...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to Community Health Care Systems, Inc. (CHCS), a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Wrightsville, Georgia. The funding will support CHCS's FY 2024 Behavioral Health Service Expansion (BHSE) project, which aims to increase access to mental health, substance use disorder (SUD), and medication-assisted treatment (MOUD) services for the low-income,...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to Metropolitan Community Health Services, Inc. (MCHS), a non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center located in Washington, North Carolina. The purpose of this 2-year grant, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2026, is to support MCHS's efforts to expand behavioral health services, including increasing the number of patients receiving mental health...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,200,000 Project Grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to High Country Community Health, a non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center located in Boone, North Carolina. The two-year grant, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2026, will enable High Country Community Health to expand integrated behavioral health and medication-assisted treatment services for...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration's Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224), awarded a $1,200,000 Project Grant to Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc., a Federally Qualified Health Center in North Carolina. The grant will fund a 2-year initiative to expand behavioral health services, including increasing access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment. Key services to be provided include adding licensed clinical...
This $600,000 Project Grant award in FY 2024 and $500,000 in FY 2025 was provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to Advance Community Health Inc., a private non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center serving Wake and Franklin counties in North Carolina. The funding will enable Advance Community Health to expand its behavioral health service capacity by adding 6.5 new...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $599,982 Project Grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to Island Health Inc. d/b/a Island Health Care Community Health Center. The funding supports the following key products and services: Hiring behavioral health and support staff to expand integrated behavioral health and substance use disorder (BH/SUD) services at the health center. Finalizing frameworks and workflows to enhance the integration of BH/SUD care with...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded Bluestone Health Association, Inc. a $1,200,000 FY 2024 Project Grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to expand and enhance access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) in combination with integrated primary and behavioral health care, substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, and peer recovery support services. The project will serve individuals with mental health and SUD issues, including rural, uninsured,...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224), awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to Goshen Medical Center, Inc., a private non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center in North Carolina. The grant will fund the expansion of mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services to vulnerable, low-income populations in Goshen's 17-county service area that currently lack access to these critical behavioral health services. Specifically, the grant...
This Project Grant award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) provides $1,200,000 to the County of Missoula, doing business as the Missoula City-County Health Department, to expand mental health, substance use disorder, and medication-assisted treatment (MOUD) services in western Montana. The funding will support the hiring of 7.0 FTE new staff, including behavioral health clinicians, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, and...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,200,000 Project Grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to Greene County Health Care, Inc., doing business as Contentnea Health, a non-profit community health center in Snow Hill, North Carolina. The grant will fund a 2-year expansion of mental health, substance use disorder (SUD), and medication-assisted treatment (MOUD) services across Greene and Pitt Counties. Contentnea Health plans to use the funds to hire additional clinical staff, purchase equipment, and optimize their electronic medical records to increase patient access to these critical behavioral health services. The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. By the end of the project, Contentnea Health expects to serve an additional 3,661 mental health patients, 300 SUD patients, and 200 MOUD patients, supporting HRSA's goal of improving healthcare access and outcomes for medically underserved populations.