Project Grant NU58DP007034

The Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professionals awarded Vanderbilt University $6 million under the Public Health Training Centers Program (CFDA 93.516) to implement a Community Health Worker Training Program. Vanderbilt will partner with the Tennessee Community Health Worker Association to develop standardized curriculum and train up to 90 new or existing community health workers annually. Trainees will receive didactic...

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...

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Women's Bureau has awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Women's Bureau Federal Grant Program (CFDA 17.700) to Health Resources in Action (HRIA), a Boston-based 501(c)(3) public health institute, on behalf of the National Association of Community Health Workers (NACHW). The "NACHW Fostering Access, Rights and Equity (FARE for CHWs)" project will coordinate national and state-level activities to prevent and mitigate gender-based violence and...

The Medical Care Development Inc. (MCD) was awarded a $5.9 million project grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professionals under the Public Health Training Centers Program (CFDA 93.516). The grant will support MCD's Community Health Worker Training Program to recruit, train, and enhance the skills of 255 community health workers over the three-year period from September 2022 to September 2025. At least 191...

The Young Women's Christian Association of San Antonio, Texas (YWCA San Antonio) received a three-year, $6 million project grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professionals under the Public Health Training Centers Program (CFDA 93.516). Through its RESET program, YWCA San Antonio will expand the public health workforce in San Antonio/Bexar County by recruiting and training 60 new community health...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health awarded a $533,333.34 four-year Project Grant under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program (CFDA 93.137) to the Arizona Community Health Workers Association, Inc. (Azchow), a non-profit organization located in Douglas, Arizona. The "Salud en Accion" (Health in Action) initiative aims to address health disparities and social determinants of health in the rural, low-income, and...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Community Health Centers (CFDA 93.224) program, awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Neighborhood Health, a non-profit healthcare organization in Alexandria, Virginia. The grant will fund a two-year project to increase breast and colorectal cancer screening rates among the largely low-income, immigrant, and uninsured populations served by Neighborhood Health in Northern Virginia....

This $6 million federal Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professionals, under the Public Health Training Centers Program (CFDA 93.516), will fund Meharry Medical College to establish a Community Health Worker (CHW) training and credentialing program and a Health Support Worker apprenticeship program leading to careers in nursing. Over three years, Meharry will partner with Tennessee Area Health Education...

This $8,807,734 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant to the States program (CFDA 93.994) supports the Virginia Department of Health's Office of Family Health Services. The funding will be used to improve the health and well-being of mothers, children, and families across Virginia through the provision of comprehensive maternal and child health...

This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the HIV Prevention Activities Health Department Based program (CFDA 93.940), will implement a Community Health Worker (CHW)-mediated model to facilitate re-engagement and viral suppression of people with HIV in rural communities and municipalities in Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico Department of Health (PRDOH), doing business as Odsi - Linea...