The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW) is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2018 Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP), herein after referred to as the “National HCOP Academies.” The goal of the National HCOP Academies is to expand and better prepare the health care workforce of the 21st century by funding projects to increase and support opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter a health profession.
The purpose of this grant program is to assist individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter a health profession through the development of academies that will support and guide them through the educational pipeline. Based on Section 739 of the Public Health Service Act, academies are expected to focus on: 1) promoting the recruitment of qualified individuals from economically or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds into health professions, including allied health programs; 2) improving retention, matriculation and graduation rates by implementing tailored enrichment programs designed to address the academic and social needs of economically or educationally disadvantaged students; and 3) providing opportunities for community-based health professions training in primary care settings, emphasizing experiences in rural and underserved communities. The National HCOP Academies will focus on three key milestones of education: 1) high school graduation, and matriculation into a two or four-year college/university (including allied health professions programs); 2) graduation from a two-year or four-year college/university (including allied health professions programs); and 3) matriculation into graduate-level health professions programs, retention and completion of a graduate-level health professions or allied health professions program (e.g., post-baccalaureate programs).
Eligible Applicants
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 including community colleges, technical colleges and tribal colleges.
Technical Assistance:
There will be a technical assistance (TA) session/webinar for applicants for this notice of funding opportunity. A taped replay of the audio portion and a recording of the webinar will be available approximately one day after the webinar ends, through the closing date of the funding opportunity. The link for the webinar recording will be placed on our website: http://bhw.hrsa.gov/grants/diversity/hcop.html. HRSA has scheduled the following technical assistance webinar and conference call to help you understand, prepare, and submit an application for this NOFO. The webinar and conference call are scheduled for:
For more information:
Interested applicants should send the following documents in sequence in one PDF no later than 4:00 p.m. on the internal submission deadline:
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Cover Page must include:
- The planned title of the research application
- Lead Principal Investigator and any co-PIs Name, Position Title
- Bio sketches not exceeding two pages per person
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3 page summary to include:
- Purpose and Need of the proposed project
- Describe the activities or steps for achieving each of the activities proposed during the entire project period.
- Propose methods that will be used to address the stated needs and encompass each of the program requirements and expectations in this NOFO.
- Describe the evaluation and technical support capacity and project sustainability
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Formatting Guidelines and Page Limit:
- Font/size: Times New Roman (12 pt.)
- Document margins: 1.0” (top, bottom, left and right)
- Standard paper size (8 ½” x 11)