Rural Health
Funding by Topic: Veterans

Veterans Housing Rehabilitation and Modification Pilot Program Inactive
Grants to rehabilitate and modify the primary residence of veterans who are low-income and living with disabilities, with a focus on helping them regain and/or maintain their independence to alleviate critical health, life, and safety issues. Priority is placed on increasing equity and improving customer experience across all HUD programs, which includes people who live in rural areas and those otherwise adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality.

Mental Health Awareness Training Grants Inactive
Grants to prepare and train school personnel, emergency first responders, law enforcement, and community-based agency staff on how to appropriately and safely recognize and respond to individuals with mental disorders.

AmeriCorps Seniors Native Nations and Indigenous Elders Senior Demonstration Program Inactive
Funding for projects that engage adults ages 55 and older in volunteerism in underserved indigenous and native communities. Program priorities include public health, climate, the environment, education, and economic opportunity.

VA Homeless Providers Per Diem Only Grant Program Inactive
Funding for eligible entities to provide provide transitional housing beds or service centers for veterans who are homeless or at risk for becoming homeless.

Rural Communities Opioid Response Program - Overdose Response Inactive
Grants to support immediate responses to the overdose crisis in rural areas through improving access to, capacity for, and sustainability of prevention, treatment, and recovery services for substance use disorder.

Empowering Communities to Address Behavioral Health and Chronic Pain through Chronic Disease Self-Management Education Programs Inactive
Funding to help communities develop or expand capacity for, deliver, and sustain evidence-based chronic disease self-management education and support programs for older adults and adults with disabilities, particularly those in underserved geographic areas and/or populations.

Empowering Communities to Deliver and Sustain Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Programs Inactive
Funding to help communities reduce falls and/or falls risk among older adults and adults with disabilities through the implementation of evidence-based falls prevention programs. Projects must engage underserved populations, such as engage underserved populations, including people living in rural areas.

Teaching Health Center Planning and Development Program Inactive
Planning and development grants to establish new accredited or expanded community-based primary care residency programs in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine-pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, and/or geriatrics. The program is designed to support the expansion of the primary care physician and dental workforce in rural and underserved communities.

Crisis Intercept Mapping for Suicide Prevention for Service Members, Veterans, and their Families (SMVF) Community Workshops Inactive
Crisis Intercept Mapping (CIM) workshops for teams from local communities with a focus on identifying and responding to the needs of service members, veterans, and their family members who are at risk for death by suicide. Applications from rural and tribal communities are encouraged.

Minnesota Long-Term Care Workforce Capacity Building Project Inactive
Funding for projects in Minnesota focused on increasing the number of workers entering the long-term care (LTC) workforce by leveraging educational opportunities, highlighting professional/career pathways, and/or by promoting careers in LTC through public relations and marketing outreach efforts.