The North Side Christian Health Center (NSCHC) was awarded a $2,400,000 Project Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to expand behavioral health services at its Pittsburgh, PA locations. The award, with a project period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025, will enable NSCHC to add two new therapists, including an addiction medicine specialist, contract with a psychiatrist for medication management, and provide enhanced...
This Project Grant award of $1,725,000.00 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) will support the Sto-Rox Neighborhood Health Council, Inc., a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in McKees Rocks, PA, to expand its capacity to provide behavioral health services. The funding will enable the health center to add behavioral health providers, support critical psychiatry services, and enhance its facilities to create warm and...
This $1,400,000 five-year Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Telehealth Programs (CFDA 93.211) will enable the UPMC Center for High-Value Health Care, a non-profit healthcare organization based in Pittsburgh, PA, to develop and expand a telehealth network to integrate behavioral health services into primary care. The project aims to improve healthcare access and outcomes in rural and...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,200,000 Project Grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to Community Health and Dental Care, Inc. (CHDC), a federally qualified health center in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. The award will enable CHDC to expand its behavioral health services and increase the number of patients receiving substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, including medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder, within its service area...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,200,000 Project Grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to the Erie County Health Department and Erie County Community Health Center (ECHD/ECCHC) in Ohio. The purpose of this FY 2024 Behavioral Health Service Expansion grant is to increase access to behavioral health services, including substance use, opioid use, and co-occurring mental health disorder treatment, for vulnerable populations in the high-risk rural...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,800,000 Project Grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to Keystone Rural Health Consortia, Inc., a Federally Qualified Health Center serving a remote, rural area in Pennsylvania. The grant will fund a two-year project from September 2024 to August 2025 to enhance the organization's mental health workforce capacity, initiate substance use disorder (SUD) services...
This Project Grant award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) provides $1,800,000.00 to the City of Philadelphia's Ambulatory Health Services (AHS) division to expand behavioral health services across 5 of its community health center sites. The funding will be used to add staff resources, including 0.4 FTE senior health navigator, 2 FTE navigators, and 1.5 FTE interpreters, as well as support clinical staff such as a...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224), awarded a $1,800,000 Project Grant to Cornerstone Care Inc., a Federally Qualified Health Center serving southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia. The 2-year grant (9/1/2024 - 8/31/2025) will support Cornerstone Care's "2024-2026 Cornerstone Care Mental Health (MH) & Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Services Expansion...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,027,252 Project Grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to North Penn Comprehensive Health Services (NPCHS) to expand access to behavioral health services in the rural Tioga and Bradford Counties of northcentral Pennsylvania. NPCHS will utilize the grant funding to increase the number of patients receiving mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services,...
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 the Santa Cruz Community Health Centers (SCCHC) for FY 2024. The grant funding will enable SCCHC to enhance their behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment services, with a focus on expanding mental health care and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment within their diverse community. Key service...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,800,000 Project Grant to the Squirrel Hill Health Center (SHHC) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224). The funding will support a 1-year initiative to expand SHHC's behavioral health services at its multiple sites serving low-income, uninsured, and underserved populations in the Pittsburgh, PA region, including refugees, prenatal patients, and individuals with opioid addiction. Key objectives include rebuilding the behavioral health team, implementing a hybrid telehealth/in-person care model, recruiting staff with language proficiency, enhancing trauma-informed care, and developing a pediatric behavioral health practice. This award builds on SHHC's prior HRSA and state grants supporting integrated, holistic, patient-centered care at its federally qualified health center locations.