This grant from HRSA aims to establish a public health workforce to prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19 by mobilizing community outreach workers. The program focuses on educating and assisting individuals in accessing and receiving COVID-19 vaccinations, with a special emphasis on addressing health disparities in vulnerable and medically underserved communities. Recipients need to demonstrate experience in implementing public health programs and engage with various organizations at national, regional, state, and local levels. The grant prioritizes hiring individuals from the communities served and requires recipients to work with community-based organizations, health providers, minority-serving institutions, tribes, and philanthropic organizations. Closing date for applications is May 18, 2021.
Opportunity ID: 333305
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | HRSA-21-136 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Community-Based Workforce for COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Health |
| Category Explanation: | https://grants.hrsa.gov/2010/Web2External/Interface/FundingCycle/ExternalView.aspx?fCycleID=8be08d26-17be-4e5f-873d-344358f4847a |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 10 |
| Assistance Listings: | 93.011 — National Organizations of State and Local Officials |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | May 04, 2021 |
| Last Updated Date: | May 04, 2021 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | May 18, 2021 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | May 18, 2021 |
| Archive Date: | Jul 17, 2021 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $125,000,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $0 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | Eligible applicants include nonprofit private or public organizations with demonstrated experience in implementing public health programs and established relationships with such State, territorial, or local public health departments, particularly in medically underserved areas. This includes Tribes and Tribal organizations as well. Applicants should have demonstrated experience and expertise in implementing public health programs across broad geographic areas. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate the ability to provide services to areas and populations not being reached by current COVID-19 vaccination and response efforts. Applicants are expected to have, and should be able to clearly describe the partnerships they have formed at both the regional and local level to directly assist individuals in getting the COVID-19 vaccine. These partnerships should include organizations such as community-based organizations and other health and social service organizations that can directly hire community outreach workers from the vulnerable and medically underserved communities they will serve and can reach out to these communities across the country; specifically the areas or populations with low vaccination rates to date. Applicants should use recent, relevant data sources to identify counties and target populations of high social vulnerability (see Section IV.7). Applicants should propose a multi-state or multi-regional approach with strong local partnerships. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Health Resources and Services Administration |
| Description: | The purpose of the program is to establish, expand, and sustain a public health workforce to prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19. This includes mobilizing community outreach workers, which includes community health workers, patient navigators, and social support specialists, to educate and assist individuals in accessing and receiving COVID-19 vaccinations. This includes activities such as conducting face-to-face outreach and reaching out directly to community members to educate them about the vaccine, assisting individuals in making a vaccine appointment, providing resources to find convenient vaccine locations, assisting individuals with transportation or other needs to get to a vaccination site. The program intends to address persistent health disparities by offering support and resources to vulnerable and medically underserved communities, including racial and ethnic minority groups and individuals living in areas of high social vulnerability. HRSA will fund recipients that have demonstrated experience and expertise in implementing public health programs across broad geographic areas in order to ensure that services will be provided to vulnerable and medically underserved areas across the nation (see data sources in Section IV.7 to identify target populations). This approach will require award recipients to have the relationships and capacity necessary to engage at multiple levels, including with national, regional, state and/or local organizations. Award recipients should propose a multi-state or multi-regional approach based on their capability to administer the program. In addition, award recipients will need to demonstrate that they have the infrastructure set up to implement a program of this scale quickly; clearly describe how they will ensure that the funding will directly serve and impact vulnerable communities; and demonstrate how they will prioritize hiring individuals from the communities they will serve by providing outreach, education and assistance related to the COVID-19 vaccine. Award recipients will need to engage with multiple organizations, and should have existing relationships or the capacity to quickly form new relationships with regional and/or local community organizations. This may include entities such as: • Community-based organizations (including faith-based organizations, social service organizations) • Regional, state and local chapters of national associations • Regional commissions • Regional and local health departments • Health centers and other community-based health providers • Minority-serving institutions such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Hispanic serving institutions, and Asian American and Pacific Islander serving institutions • Tribes and Tribal Organizations • Philanthropic Organizations • Local municipal entities, such as fire and EMS departments • Social service providers (e.g. food banks, community transportation, childcare) • Community Action Coalitions, Chambers of Commerce, Health Equity Councils, and other community groups |
| Link to Additional Information: | – |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration
CBOVaccineOutreach@hrsa.gov Email:CBOVaccineOutreach@hrsa.gov |
Version History
| Version | Modification Description | Updated Date |
|---|---|---|
Related Documents
Folder 333305 Full Announcement-HRSA-21-136 -> HRSA-21-136 CBW-Vaccine Outreach_Final_v2.pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration CBOVaccineOutreach@hrsa.gov Email: CBOVaccineOutreach@hrsa.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93.011 | HRSA-21-136 | Community-Based Workforce for COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach | PKG00266912 | May 04, 2021 | May 18, 2021 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
333305 SF424_3_0-3.0.pdf
333305 AttachmentForm_1_2-1.2.pdf
333305 PerformanceSite_3_0-3.0.pdf
333305 ProjectNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
333305 GG_LobbyingForm-1.1.pdf
333305 BudgetNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
333305 SF424A-1.0.pdf
333305 Key_Contacts_2_0-2.0.pdf
333305 Project_AbstractSummary_2_0-2.0.pdf
Optional forms
333305 SFLLL_2_0-2.0.pdf
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