Nevada Children's Behavioral Health Transformation (CBHT) Project Workforce Recruitment and Rural Access Program (WRRAP)
Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Team
ChildrensBH@nvha.nv.gov
Nevada Rural Health Transformation Project Team
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Funded by the Rural Health Transformation Program, the Nevada Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Project Workforce Recruitment and Rural Access Program (CBHT WRRAP) offers funding to improve rural health access and expand workforce capacity for providers of children's behavioral healthcare in Nevada.
Funding is divided into four tiers:
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Tier 1 – Small recruitment projects:
- Relocation assistance or signing bonuses
- Recruitment firm costs
- Short-term retention incentives such as housing support, continuing education support, and other educational supports
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Tier 2 – Community workforce
expansion:
- Recruitment of one children's behavioral health provider
- Expansion of specialty access services
- Provider retention initiatives tied to service expansion
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Tier 3 – Regional workforce programs:
- Recruitment of multiple children's behavioral health providers
- Partnerships between rural hospitals and clinics
- Expansion of specialty access across a service area
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Tier 4 – Large rural access
initiatives:
- Multi-provider recruitment strategies or regional recruitment collaboratives
- Programs establishing new specialty service lines
Funds may be used for:
- Personnel, including, but not limited to, bonuses, fringe benefits, housing stipends, incentive payments, and benefits
- Travel
- Training
- Operating costs
- Contract/consultant costs
- Other approved costs
Certain project types may require a 5-year service commitment.
Eligible applicants include, but are not limited to, rural hospitals and healthcare providers located in the state of Nevada that operate in rural counties, such as:
- Rural hospitals
- Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics
- Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)
- Tribal health clinics
- Behavioral health providers
- Emergency medical services providers
- Paraprofessionals
- School health services programs
- School-based health centers
- Other health clinics
- Other healthcare providers
Preference will be given to programs that:
- Collaborate with healthcare training organizations within the state, including rural acute care hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals,FQHCs, rural clinics (including rural tribal health clinics), and academic partners through training consortia that share faculty and rotation sites and leverage mentorship networks
- Present strategies for the retention of existing staff and present a comprehensive strategy for recruiting high-need providers to the rural areas of the state
- Recruit and retain new providers that are willing to enroll in the Medicaid program and provide care and services to the Medicaid population
- Address the most critical provider shortage areas and
provider specialty areas within the state of Nevada.
Programs should describe how they plan to prioritize
addressing a shortage of providers in specific rural
geographic areas, including, but not limited to:
- Counties with documented service gaps (Churchill, Douglas, Elko, Esmeralda, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Pershing, Storey, White Pine)
- Frontier regions
- Tribal communities within rural counties
The total funding available is $2,000,000.
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Tier 1 – Small recruitment projects:
- Estimated award range: $20,000–$60,000
- Estimated number of awards: 6-10
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Tier 2 – Community workforce
expansion:
- Estimated award range: $60,001–$150,000
- Estimated number of awards: 4-8
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Tier 3 – Regional workforce programs:
- Estimated award range: $150,001–$200,000
- Estimated number of awards: 2-4
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Tier 4 – Large rural access
initiatives:
- Estimated award range: $200,001–$500,000
- Estimated number of awards: 1-2
Links to additional guidance and the application instructions are available on the program website.
Email completed applications to ChildrensBH@nvha.nv.gov.
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