93.795: Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities
Alternate Name: CCR
Overview
Program Number
93.795
Status
Inactive
Last Modified
Aug. 24, 2022
Date Posted
July 28, 2021
Objective
This Notice of Funding Opportunity is intended to scale up Community Health Worker (CHW) actions across the nation to support COVID-19 public health response efforts in those communities hit hardest by COVID-19 and among populations that are at high risk for COVID exposure, infection, and poorer health outcomes (priority populations). Strategies include:
1) Train Community Health Workers to ensure comprehensive acquisition and reinforcement of relevant knowledge, roles, and skills to support the COVID-19 public health response to manage outbreaks and community spread. (Category A)
2) Deploy Community Health Workers to support the COVID-19 public health response to manage outbreaks and spread of COVID-19 among priority populations within communities. (Category B)
3) Engage Community Health Workers to help build and strengthen community resilience to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 by improving the overall health of priority populations within communities. (Category C)
Type of Assistance
B - Cooperative Agreements
Applicant Eligibility
Not Applicable
Beneficiary Eligibility
Eligibility applicants include: State governments; local governments (including city, county, and district health departments); Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized); Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments); Urban Indian Health Programs; Government Organizations: State (includes the District of Columbia), Territorial governments or their bona fide agents in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau, American Indian or Alaska Native tribal governments (federally recognized or state-recognized)
Applicants, through full and open competition, must be a bona fide agency of a state, locality, territory or tribe, including, but not limited to, health departments.
Any state, locality, territory, tribe, tribal organization, urban Indian health organization, or health service provider to tribes will benefit.
States, localities, territories, tribes, tribal organizations, urban Indian health organizations, or health service providers to tribes
Additional Information
Grant Awards
Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities direct grants
Grant Opportunities