Federal grant programs / Department of Health and Human Services

Community Health Workers for Public Health Response and Resilient (93.495)

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$378 million
• Grant awards70
• Typical award$3.3 million
• Awarded in FY 2025$0
• Size rank436 of 1824
• Type of assistanceCooperative agreement

Key findings

• It is the 436th largest of 1,824 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 20 largest recipients received 60% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 39 states and territories.

What the program funds

To scale up Community Health Worker (CHW) activities across the nation related to public health response efforts in those communities hit hardest by an outbreak and among populations that are at high risk for exposure, infection, and poorer health outcomes (priority populations). Emphasis and or focus areas are the: 1) Training Community Health Workers to ensure comprehensive acquisition and reinforcement of relevant knowledge, roles, and skills in support of a public health response to manage outbreaks and community spread; 2) Deploying Community Health Workers to support the public health response to manage outbreaks among priority populations within communities; 3) Engaging Community Health Workers to help build and strengthen community resilience to mitigate the impact of an outbreak by improving the overall health of priority populations within communities.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

Eligibility applicants include: State government health departments; local governments (including city, county, and district health departments); Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized); Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments); Urban Indian Health Programs; Government Organizations: State (includes the District of Columbia), Territorial governments or their bona fide agents in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau, American Indian or Alaska Native tribal governments (federally recognized or state-recognized) Applicants, through full and open competition, must be a bona fide agency of a state, locality, territory or tribe, including, but not limited to, health departments.

What the money can and cannot pay for

Recipients may develop, implement, and evaluate the following potential activities linked to COVID-19 response activities: 1) Train Community Health Workers to ensure comprehensive acquisition and reinforcement of relevant knowledge, roles, and skills to support the COVID-19 public health response to manage outbreaks and community spread. 2) Deploy Community Health Workers to support the COVID-19 public health response to manage outbreaks and spread of COVID-19 among priority populations within communities. 3) Engage Community Health Workers to help build and strengthen community resilience to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 by improving the overall health of priority populations within communities. Restrictions that must be considered while planning the programs and writing the budget are: • Recipients may not use funds for research. • Recipients may not use funds for clinical care except as allowed by law. • Recipients may use funds only for reasonable program purposes, including personnel, travel, supplies, and services. • Generally, recipients may not use funds to purchase furniture or equipment. Any such proposed spending must be clearly identified in the budget. • Reimbursement of pre-award costs generally is not allowed, unless the CDC provides written approval to the recipient.

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Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Deadlines

Check Grants.gov for any relevant NOFO information regarding processes for applying for assistance.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

No new awards are being made for this AL, but active projects may still report expenditures until they are closed out. These grants will range from $350,000 - $3 million depending on the size and scope of activity. The range of funds is broad to accommodate a varied number of organizations based on capacity.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Who usually wins

State and local governments received 74% of the money, nonprofits 4.3% and tribes 2.4%.

By state

38 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards.

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.