Mentorship In Medicine and Other Healthcare Professions

Joyce Meadows
omhhdp@health.ny.gov

The Mentorship In Medicine and Other Healthcare Professions Program provides funding to support activities and approaches designed to increase in the number of economically disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students who elect to pursue careers in medicine and health related professions to become physicians and other healthcare professionals in New York.

The initiative seeks to promote diversity in the health professions by:

• Identifying and engaging economically disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students early in their education who are pursuing or interested in pursuing careers in medicine and other health professions
• Increasing graduation rates from both secondary and postsecondary education for economically disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students
• Providing supports needed to ensure successful completion of program deliverables
• Ensuring successful attainment of professional careers in the health workforce

Activities must include:

• Community outreach:
  • Collaborative relationships with schools educating students at all academic levels and youth-serving from which to recruit students from underrepresented groups to participate
  • Collaborative relationships with healthcare, public health, academic and other appropriate institutions to build a pool of knowledgeable, experienced and committed mentors
  • Development/maintenance of collaborative relationships with other mentoring programs in the state to expand the reach of the initiative and contribute to the development of an integrated, multidisciplinary pipeline system for economically disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students
• Structured mentoring services:
  • A multifaceted mentoring model that focuses explicitly on economically disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students
  • Strategies for students to meet on an ongoing basis with health professional mentors who function as advisors, educators, and role models
• Organizational services:
  • Mentor training
  • Promoting the interaction of mentors and students with communities and participating institutions
  • Implementing processes for retaining students and mentors
  • Implementing processes for engaging parents and other family members
  • Development and distribution of a mentorship implementation manual in the target area
  • Educate mentors to increase their capacity to address training needs to ensure meeting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Enhanced National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards

Underrepresented populations include:

• Black/African Americans
• Latinos/Hispanics
• Asian-American/Pacific Islanders
• American Indians/Alaska Natives

Eligible applicants include:

• Nonprofit medical academic institutions currently managing a mentorship program that supports young people interested in the healthcare field
• Nonprofit health and service organizations, county health departments, or tribal organizations that are affiliated with one or more academic medical institutions currently managing a mentorship program

Additional eligibility requirements:

• At least 3 years of experience working with economically disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students
• At least three 3 years of experience in oversight of administrative, fiscal, and programmatic aspects of government, foundation or other grantmakers in health contracts, including timely and accurate submission of fiscal and program reports
• Be located within and/or provide services to economically disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students
• Prequalified in the New York State Grants Gateway prior to the application deadline

Award ceiling: $50,000 per year
Project period: 5 years
Estimated number of awards: 1

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