This announcement solicits applications for National Training and Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreements (NCA) 1 to provide training and technical assistance (T/TA) to existing and potential Health Center Program award recipients and look-alikes (hereafter referred to as health centers). The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is seeking to fund approximately 19 organizations to provide T/TA directly and through collaborative partnerships to support health centers in providing comprehensive, high quality primary health care and improving the health of individuals and communities, consistent with the goals of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) National Quality Strategy.
Health centers provide access to comprehensive, culturally competent, quality primary health care services to the Nation’s neediest populations. The Health Center Program currently funds nearly 1,400 health centers that operate more than 9,800 service delivery sites in every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Basin. In 2015, health centers provided care to more than 24 million patients.
NCAs coordinate with State and Regional Primary Care Associations (PCA) and Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCN) to provide T/TA to existing and potential health centers, regardless of award or designation status, to improve health center operational and clinical outcomes.
NCA funding in fiscal years (FY) 2017 through 2020 will support the provision of T/TA to health centers nationwide through the development and dissemination of promising practices, facilitation of trainings, coordination of activities, and other T/TA activities. NCAs work with HRSA to identify emerging issues and trends that are affecting, or have the potential to affect, health centers. They also provide support to health centers, both directly and through coordinated activities with other HRSA-supported T/TA providers, to develop and implement promising practices to effectively address these issues and trends and advance HRSA priorities.
Multiple applications from an organization are not allowable.
Deadlines:
Eligible applicants include public, nonprofit, and for-profit entities, including tribal and faith-based organizations, that can provide T/TA on a national basis to existing and potential health centers. New organizations and organizations currently receiving funding as NCAs under Section 330(l) may submit applications.
Approximately $18.5 million is expected to be available annually to fund approximately 19 awards. The project period is July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2020 (three years). You may apply for a funding amount that is equal to or less than the maximum amount permitted for the NCA type selected per the guidance below. This applies to each of the three years of the proposed project period.
• Special or Vulnerable Populations NCAs: New applicants in this category may request up to $450,000; currently funded NCAs may request up to $450,000, or the equivalent of the FY 2016 award amount.
• Health Center Development Areas NCAs: New applicants and currently funded NCAs in this category may request up to the following maximum annual funding amount:
• National Resource Center for Health Center T/TA NCA: New applicants and currently funded NCAs in this category may request up to $6,375,000.
Owing to the sponsor's restriction on the number of applications that may be submitted from Duke, anyone wishing to pursue nomination should submit the following materials as one PDF.
* A letter of support from dean or chair - 1 to 1.5 pages
* Project summary - 2 to 4 pages
* CV or Biosketch of project leader
Applicants will need to submit internal materials through My Research Proposal.(Code ILN) https://www.grantinterface.com/Common/LogOn.aspx?eqs=ApVvmgXCk2Uj7AzWyDEJKQ2
Instructions for setting up your account and uploading internal applications can be found here: https://ors.duke.edu/sites/default/files/Applicant Instructions_FINAL.pdf
