California Song-Brown Healthcare Workforce Training Program: Family Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant (FNP/PA) Program

916.326.3700
SongBrown@hcai.ca.gov

The California Song-Brown Healthcare Workforce Training Program will provide grants to organizations to support the clinical training of family nurse practitioners (FNP) and physician assistants (PA) in primary care.

Strategies should include:

• Establishing procedures to identify, recruit, and admit FNP and PA trainees who possess characteristics which would suggest a predisposition to practice in areas of unmet need, and who express a commitment to serve in areas of unmet need
• Implementing counseling and placement programs to encourage training program graduates to enter practice in areas of unmet need
• Providing a preceptorship experience in an area of unmet need to enhance the potential of training program graduates to practice in such an area

Program priorities include:

• Graduating individuals who practice in Medically Underserved Areas (MUA)
• Enrolling members of underrepresented groups in medicine in the program
• Locating the program's main training site in a MUA
• Operating a main training site at which the majority of the patients are Medi-Cal recipients

California accredited/approved family nurse practitioner and physician assistant programs are eligible to apply.

Up to $3,931,000 in funding is available for one year. Programs may receive $13,000 per enrolled first-year student with 14 slots for family nurse practitioners and 14 slots for physician assistants.

Links to additional guidance, application instructions, and the online application portal are available on the program website.

Applicant webinar
(Registration required)
August 19, 2026
2:00 p.m. Pacific