Rural Community Health Support Program

For program and eligibility questions:
Michele Gibson
301.443.7320
mgibson@hrsa.gov

For financial and budget questions:
Patryce Peden
301.443.2277
ppeden@hrsa.gov

Grants.gov contact center:
800.518.4726
support@grants.gov
Self-service knowledge base

HRSA contact center:
877.464.4772
TTY: 877.897.9910
HRSA contact page

System for award management (SAM):
866.606.8220
Federal service desk

The Rural Community Health Support Program (R-CHSP) provides offers a cooperative agreement with a single entity to develop, deliver, and coordinate nationally available technical assistance (TA) that supports community-based organizations and rural health stakeholders serving rural populations.

This program seeks to improve and expand healthcare access for rural communities by:

• Supporting a full range of healthcare delivery in rural communities
• Improving chronic disease management, nutrition, and preventive services
• Helping organizations to work better and provide higher quality care
• Addressing emergent public health needs and priorities

Program goals:

• Increase access to and delivery of rural healthcare services by providing targeted, nationally available TA to community-based organizations and other relevant rural stakeholders serving rural populations, with a focus on current and future Federal Office of Rural Health Policy community-based awardees
• Help R-CHSP TA recipients successfully address their unique unmet community needs by developing and implementing of adaptive TA models
• Develop and share effective and usable evidence-based and best practice resources, models, tools and information, including information about rural health federal funding opportunities, for use by TA recipients serving rural populations
• Facilitate collaboration across local, regional, state, and national levels to enhance the exchange of information and best practices that strengthen sustainable healthcare services and improve health outcomes in rural communities

Eligible applicants:

• State, county, city, township, and special district governments
• Independent school districts
• Public, state-controlled, and private institutions of higher education
• Native American tribal governments
• Native American tribal organizations
• Nonprofit organizations with and without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS
• For-profit organizations and small businesses
• All domestic public or private, non-profit or for-profit entities including domestic faith-based and community-based organizations

Additional eligibility information on serving rural communities, partnerships, and the use of evidence-informed TA approaches is available in the application instructions.

Award ceiling: $4,500,000
Project period: 3 years
Estimated number of awards: 1

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.

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