Rural Health
Funding by Topic: Health occupations

California Health Professions Pathways Program (HPPP) Inactive
Funding to support and encourage underrepresented individuals in California to pursue health careers. The goal is to develop a more culturally and linguistically competent healthcare workforce. Priority goes to applications that propose services in rural and frontier areas of the state.

California Justice-System Involvement Youth: Behavioral Health Pipeline Inactive
Funding for organizations to support and encourage economically disadvantaged, educationally/environmentally disadvantaged, and justice-system involved youth in California to pursue behavioral health careers. The goal is to develop a more culturally and linguistically competent behavioral healthcare workforce, including providing comprehensive wrap-around supports. Applicants should conduct outreach and recruitment in rural and medically underserved areas; for educationally and/or economically disadvantaged students; and to former foster youth, veterans, immigrants, refugees, and adult/non-traditional learners.

National Indian Health Board Dental Therapy Student Sponsorship Fund Inactive
An opportunity for federally recognized tribes, tribal organizations, and tribal health consortia to sponsor a student or students enrolled in a dental therapy education program during the 2023-2024 academic year.

Aya Locums Future Leaders in Medicine Scholarship Inactive
Scholarships for students underrepresented in the healthcare professions who are pursuing specific professional and graduate level degree programs.

Mentorship In Medicine and Other Healthcare Professions Inactive
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.

Wisconsin Graduate Medical Education Initiative Residency Expansion Grants Inactive
Grants to increase the number of resident positions in the priority specialties of family medicine, general internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry, addiction medicine, and addiction psychiatry in Wisconsin and the addition of new rural clinical training sites in the state.

Minnesota Health Professional Training Scholarship Grant Program Inactive
Grants for eligible health professional training programs in Minnesota to administer scholarships to students enrolled during the 2023-24 school year. Grantees should provide both academic and professional counseling and prioritize rural clinical placements for all scholarship recipients.

Education and Outreach for Dental Therapy in Tribal Settings Inactive
Grants to support education and outreach on tribal dental therapy programs. The overall goal of the program is strengthening efforts and launching new efforts to enhance federal, state, and tribal policies supportive of dental therapy within the Indian Health System.

Tribal Colleges and Universities Implementation Activities or Feasibility Study for Dental Therapy Training Programs Inactive
Grants to tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) to implement activities to support training and educational opportunities for dental therapy students, or to undertake a feasibility study to explore what it would take to begin a dental therapy training program at the TCU.

Tribes and Tribal Organizations Implementation of Dental Therapy Inactive
Grants for projects that implement dental therapy in tribal communities in states that have a legal mechanism for dental therapists to practice within the Indian Health System.