Health Careers Opportunity Program Skills Training and Health Workforce Development of Paraprofessionals
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Health Careers Opportunity Program Skills Training and Health Workforce Development of Paraprofessionals: This announcement solicits applications for the FY 2014 Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP) ¿ Skills Training and Health Workforce Development of Paraprofessionals grant program. Authorized in 1972, HCOP provides grants to eligible accredited health professions schools and public and private non-profit health or educational entities. The program¿s goal is to provide students from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds an opportunity to develop the skills needed to successfully compete for, enter, and graduate from health or allied health professions schools. The purpose of this grant program is to train and expand the health paraprofessional workforce to meet the employment needs of the community with a particular focus on team-based care, and to promote employment and a career ladder for those trained through career coaching and placement partnership with the community, particularly in rural and underserved areas. HRSA¿s Bureau of Health Workforce has made investments in improving diversity in the health professions workforce by training entry-level and health paraprofessional workers, and intends to enhance these efforts through this funding opportunity. The goal of this investment is to grow the workforce while simultaneously promoting employment and a career ladder for graduates of health paraprofessional training programs. This funding opportunity also further strengthens HRSA¿s efforts to train individuals from educationally or economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Grantees will be expected to expand the health paraprofessional workforce by supporting education and training for health paraprofessionals that result in a certificate or license. The HCOP Skills Training and Health Workforce Development of Paraprofessionals grant program will close the gap in access to health care by increasing the number of culturally-competent and well-prepared health paraprofessionals working in rural and underserved communities.
Federal Grant Title: | Health Careers Opportunity Program Skills Training and Health Workforce Development of Paraprofessionals |
Federal Agency Name: | Health Resources Services Administration |
Grant Categories: | Health |
Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
Funding Opportunity Number: | HRSA-14-144 |
Type of Funding: | Grant |
CFDA Numbers: | 93.329 |
CFDA Descriptions: | Skills Training and Health Workforce Development of Paraprofessionals Grant Program |
Current Application Deadline: | Jul 16, 2014 |
Original Application Deadline: | Jul 16, 2014 |
Posted Date: | Jun 13, 2014 |
Creation Date: | Jun 13, 2014 |
Archive Date: | Sep 14, 2014 |
Total Program Funding: | $2,000,000 |
Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $200,000 |
Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $0 |
Expected Number of Awards: | 15 |
Cost Sharing or Matching: | Yes |
- Category Explanation
- https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?ID=18ae37c2-724a-4e80-8757-200e0d379f1c
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- Additional Information on Eligibility
- Eligible applicants include accredited schools of medicine, osteopathic medicine, public health, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, allied health, chiropractic, podiatric medicine, public and nonprofit private schools that offer graduate programs in behavioral and mental health, programs for the training of physician assistants and other public or private nonprofit health or educational entities, which includes community colleges, technical colleges and tribal colleges. Each applicant must specifically state its eligibility information in the project abstract.
Eligible applicant institutions/organizations must be located in the United States, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the Republic of Palau.
- Grant Announcement Contact
- Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, HRSA Grants Application Center, 910 Clopper Road, Suite 155 South, Gaithersburg, MD, 20878
[email protected]
Contact HRSA Call Center at 877-Go4-HRSA/877-464-4772 or email [email protected]
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