California Song-Brown Healthcare Workforce Training Program: Registered Nurse Education
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The Song-Brown Healthcare Workforce Training Program provides grants to support registered nurse training programs in California.
Services should include:
- Recruit students possessing characteristics of those practicing in Registered Nurse Shortage Areas (RNSAs), and those committed to serve in RNSAs
- Offer a preceptorship experience in an area of unmet need to encourage program graduates to enter practice in areas of unmet need
- Offer graduate placement programs to encourage graduate practice in RNSAs
Priority will be given to programs that have demonstrated success in the following areas:
- Graduating individuals who practice in medically underserved areas
- Enrolling members of underrepresented groups in medicine to the program
- Locating the program's main training site in a medically underserved area
- Operating a main training site at which the majority of the patients are Medi-Cal recipients
Eligible applicants are nurse education programs that are approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (Associate Degree of Nursing; Bachelor of Science, Nursing; and Entry-Level Master's pre-licensure registered nursing programs).
Estimated total program funding: $2,725,000
Existing slots:
- Rate per student: $15,000
- Maximum award: $900,000
- Project period: 2 years
- Maximum student slots per year: 30
Expansion slots at existing programs:
- Rate per student: $30,000
- Maximum award: $600,000
- Project period: 2 years
- Maximum student slots per year: 10
New pre-licensure RN education program:
- Maximum award: $1,000,000
- Project period: 2 years
Links to additional guidance, application instructions, and the online application portal are available on the program website.
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- California Department of Health Care Access and Information, view details
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