Promoting Resilience and Mental Health Among Health Professional Workforce

For programmatic or technical questions:
Nancy V. Douglas-Kersellius, MSN
301.443.0907
ndouglas@hrsa.gov

For grants management or budget questions:
Carolyn Cobb
301.443.0829
CCobb2@hrsa.gov

The Promoting Resilience and Mental Health Among Health Professional Workforce (PRMHW) program provides funding to support healthcare organizations in adopting, promoting, implementing, and demonstrating an organizational culture of wellness that will contribute to the resilience and mental health of their health professional workforce, especially taking into consideration the needs of providers in rural and medically underserved communities.

Program objectives include:

• Establish, enhance, expand, and integrate evidence-based/informed program and protocols for resilience, mental health, and wellness within healthcare organizations in order to provide their health professional workforce with knowledge, skills, services, and resources to become more resilient and better manage workplace stressors
• Implement evidence-based/informed practices within an organization's culture to support the rapid deployment of strategies and training to address workforce burnout, resilience, and mental health and help achieve a culture of wellness in healthcare organizations and systems
• Increase organizations' capacity to transform their culture, values, and expectations to provide needed community-based and culturally competent services and resources to enable health professional workforce to manage workplace stressors

Eligible applicants are entities that provide healthcare, including health care providers associations, and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs).

Estimated award amounts:

• $1,425,000 in year 1
• $897,000 in year 2
• $634,000 in year 3

Estimated number of awards: 10

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