Planning Grants in High Poverty Counties

AGENCY: Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)

DEADLINE: May 16, 2007

ELIGIBILITY: Public and non-profit private entities, including tribes and tribal organizations, faith-based and community-based organizations.

FUNDING: 25 anticipated awards dispersing $4,000,000

DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this activity is to support grants for the planning and development of new service delivery sites in high poverty counties funded under section 330 of the Public Health Service Act. Each application for grant support to plan and prepare for the development of a new site must identify a population in need of primary health care services. It must propose specific developmental activities that upon successful completion would facilitate the establishment of a new health center access point in an underserved high poverty county under the Consolidated Health Center Program. The goal of the President’s High Poverty Access Initiative is to increase access over the next five years, to primary health care in 200 of the Nation’s poorest counties that can support a comprehensive health center. The purpose of the Consolidated Health Center Program is to extend comprehensive primary and preventive health services (including mental health, substance abuse and oral health services) and supplemental services to populations currently without access to such services, and to improve their health status.

The populations served by these programs include: 1) medically underserved populations in urban and rural areas; 2) migratory and seasonal agricultural workers and their families; 3) homeless people, including children and families; and 4) residents of publicly subsidized housing.

Announcement at: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=13049&mode=VIEW

David M. Young, Professor
Rural Health Resource Specialist
Extension Service
Montana State University
e-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 406-994-5552
Fax: 406-994-1756