This $6 million federal Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professionals will support the International Pre-Diabetes Center Inc.'s Community Health Worker Training Program. The program aims to train 225 new community health workers and health support workers, with 50% expected to engage in high-demand community healthcare career pathways by providing outreach and support to underserved communities....
Purdue University was awarded a $4.8 million Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration under the Public Health Training Centers Program. The grant will support Purdue University's Community Health Worker Development Institute to expand the public health workforce in Indiana through 2025. Key deliverables include training 75% of new participants as credentialed Community Health Workers and Health Support Workers, establishing...
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 Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $4,691,464 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 fund the HEAL (Health Educators, Advocates, and Leaders) Training program to address healthcare gaps in Baltimore City through community health worker training. Specifically, the program will develop a novel curriculum to...
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) was awarded a $6 million Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration under the Public Health Training Centers Program (CFDA 93.516). UAMS will implement the Community Health Worker Training and Apprenticeship Program to train and place 270 community health workers and health support workers over three years. The program aims to expand the public health workforce and address...
Affiliated Service Providers of Indiana, Inc. (Aspin) received a $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) to deliver community health worker training and apprenticeship programs. Over three years, Aspin will train 210 new community health workers and upskill 23 existing workers annually through expanded curricula on...
South Carolina State University received a $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) to implement a Community Health Worker Training Program. The program will establish educational curricula to train and enable new Community Health Workers and health support workers to acquire core competencies and public health...
Wayne State University will receive $5.2 million over three years from the Health Resources and Services Administration under the Public Health Training Centers Program (CFDA 93.516) to launch the Community Health Worker Academy workforce development project. The project will certify 140 trainees as community health workers through comprehensive foundational and specialized trainings, and place them in registered apprenticeships and internships on integrated care teams. At least 60% of...
The Illinois Public Health Institute (IPHI) was awarded a $16 million project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service under the Child Nutrition Discretionary Grants Limited Availability program (CFDA 10.579). The grant will fund IPHI's CNP HEALTHY MEALS INCENTIVE program through December 2028. This program aims to incentivize healthier school meals by providing $16M to IPHI to support related initiatives statewide through 2028. As a non-profit...
The federal Project Grant award, with an ID of P1053098, was provided by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Rural Health Care Services Outreach, Rural Health Network Development and Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement program (CFDA 93.912). The $300,000.00 award was granted to the Institute For Public Health Innovation (IPHI), a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, to support rural health network development planning in Lebanon, VA. The...
The Institute for Public Health Innovation (IPHI) was awarded a $6 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 IPHI's Community Health Worker Academy initiative to develop the community health worker workforce and address health inequities in Washington D.C. and surrounding counties through September 2025.
Specifically, the Community Health Worker Academy will expand and diversify the public health workforce by engaging community health workers in innovative training and employment placement activities. The program aims to enhance community health workers' ability to address the social determinants of health and barriers to care in underserved communities through new training curricula, field placements, apprenticeships and other evidence-based practices. If successful, these workforce development strategies will increase equity, draw on community strengths, and help place more trained community health workers in sustainable careers that advance health equity in focus areas.