Healthy Oregon Workforce Training Opportunity (HOWTO) Grant Program

HOWTO.grant.program@odhsoha.oregon.gov

Suzanne Christman
971.283.4505
suzanne.christman@odhsoha.oregon.gov

The Healthy Oregon Workforce Training Opportunity (HOWTO) Grant Program provides grants to support innovative, transformative, community-based health professional training initiatives in Oregon that will address identified local healthcare workforce shortages and expand the diversity of the health professional workforce.

The program is designed to address healthcare workforce shortages for people in:

• Culturally and linguistically diverse groups
• Groups that have been economically and socially marginalized
• Tribal communities
• Rural communities
• Communities experiencing inequities

Proposed projects should:

• Support greater trauma-informed, ethnic, racial, and linguistic diversity and inclusion in Oregon's healthcare workforce
• Advance trauma informed care in workforce training programs
• Address health inequities and social determinants of health
• Expand current and/or develop new health professional training in a local area

Applications may be given priority based on specialty populations and region served by the project, including rural regions.

Applications are accepted from Oregon community‐based educational institutions, consortia, healthcare service organizations, community-based organizations (CBOs), and others seeking funding to help launch new, innovative training initiatives to address documented shortages in specific areas of their local healthcare workforce.

Award ceiling: $1,000,000
Project period: Up to 3 years
Estimated total program funding: $9,000,000

Funding may be requested for up to 3 years. Up to $1 million of the total funding will be designated to support community-based organizations for projects under $300,000.

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