Pediatric Primary Care Mental Health Training Grant Program
Application Deadline: 4:30 pm on Friday, February 7
The Pediatric Primary Care Mental Health Training Grant Program, authorized by Minnesota Statutes Sec. 144.1509, awards grants for the development of new or expansion of existing pediatric mental health training programs located in outpatient primary care clinics. The training programs are designed to increase confidence, skills, and awareness of mental health resources among pediatric primary care providers caring for the mental health needs of pediatric patients. An overarching goal of this grant program is that pediatric patients served by participating outpatient primary care clinics will receive more effective, timely, longitudinal care for mental health needs.
To be eligible for a Pediatric Primary Care Mental Health Training grant, a training program or proposed training program must:
- Be located in an outpatient primary care clinic
- Focus on the training of pediatric primary care providers working with multidisciplinary mental health teams
- Provide training on conducting comprehensive clinical mental health assessments and potential pharmacological therapy
- Provide psychiatric consultation to pediatric primary care providers during their outpatient pediatric primary care experiences
- Emphasize longitudinal care for patients with behavioral health needs
- Develop partnerships with community resources
For more information, visit the Pediatric Primary Care Mental Health Training Grant Program webpage.
Home and Community-Based Services Employee Scholarship Grant and Loan Forgiveness Program
Application Deadline: 4:30 pm on Friday, February 14
The Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Employee Scholarship Grant and Loan Forgiveness Program, authorized by Minnesota Statutes Section 144.1503 assists HCBS provider organizations in funding employee scholarships. The program also repays qualified educational loans for employees nominated by HCBS provider organizations. Scholarships and loan forgiveness cover costs related to education in nursing and other health care fields, in courses of study that lead to career advancement with the provider or in the HCBS field.
To be eligible to apply for a grant for HCBS employee scholarships and/or nominate employees for loan forgiveness, a nonprofit or for-profit organization must:
- Be located in Minnesota
- Primarily provide services to individuals who are 65 years of age and older in home and community-based settings
- At least 51% of the organization’s patients/clients must be age 65 and older
- Hold one of the following licenses:
- Assisted living facility as defined in Sec. 144G.08 MN Statutes, subdivision 7
- Adult day care facility as defined in MN Statute 245A.02, subdivision 2a
- Home care services provider as defined in MN Statute 144A.43, subdivision 3
For more information, visit the Home and Community-Based Services Employee Scholarship Grant and Loan Forgiveness Program webpage.
HRSA Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program Notice of Funding Opportunity
Eligible applicants include all domestic public and private, nonprofit, and for-profit entities with demonstrated experience serving, or the capacity to serve, rural underserved populations. Applicants are also required to propose projects that serve exclusively HRSA-designated rural areas and be a part of a network comprised of three or more organizations with at least two-thirds or 66% percent network organizations physically located in a HRSA-designated rural area.
- Award Amount: Approximately $3.5 million for up to 35 grants
- Period of performance: 1 year (July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026)
- Maximum Funding Amount: 100,000
- Application Deadline: February 19
Further details can be found in the HRSAS Rural Health Network Development Planning Program NOFO.
Community Clinic Grant Program
Application Deadline: 4:30 pm on Monday, March 3
Technical assistance webinar: 9:00 am on Tuesday, February 4
Minnesota Statute 145.9268 authorizes the Commissioner of Health to award grants to support the capacity of eligible organizations to plan, establish or operate clinical services for populations with low income and/or living in rural areas of the state.
Fiscal Year 2025 program funding will support clinic efforts to improve any of the following:
- Mental health services for all ages
- Oral health programs for all ages, with preference for projects supporting collaborative practice dental hygienists to provide services in community locations
- Clinical services for at-risk youth (this program defines youth as 25 and under; programs may serve any age range of patients up to age 25)
Eligible entities include:
- Nonprofit clinics established to provide preventative, medical, dental, or mental health services to low-income or rural population groups
- A government entity operating a clinic which provides preventative, medical, dental, or mental health services
- An Indian Health Services unit or Indian tribal government operating a clinic which provides preventative, medical, dental, or mental health services
- A consortium of these entities
For more information, visit the Community Clinic Grant Program webpage.
Nursing Workforce Diversity Program
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to enhance the nursing workforce. The Nursing Workforce Diversity (NWD) Program aims to increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, including racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented among registered nurses.
HRSA will award approximately $22.2 million to up to 40 grantees over a period of four years through this funding opportunity.
Eligible applicants:
- Academic health centers
- Accredited schools of nursing
- Faith-based and community-based organizations
- Independent school districts
- Nonprofit organizations
- Nursing centers
- Public and private institutions of higher education
- State and local departments of health
- State, local, county, city, special district, or township governments
- Tribes and tribal organizations
View the funding opportunity on Grants.gov for complete eligibility information.
Applications are due by March 18 at 10:59 pm.
Trainings and webinars
Rural Health Clinic (RHC) webinar
On January 22 at 12:05 pm, ORHPC is hosting a webinar on the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule and how it will affect Rural Health Clinics (RHCs). This webinar is part of our RHC series for clinic managers and leadership. Sarah Hohman from the National Association of Rural Health Clinics (NARHC) will be presenting on the Final Rule and answering any questions.
To register, please email sarah.grafstrom@state.mn.us.
You can also email Sarah Grafstrom with any questions you would like pose to our guest speaker from NARHC. The link to the final rule is located here: Rural Health Clinics Secure Major Regulatory Wins in Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule - National Association of Rural Health Clinics.
Critical Access Hospital (CAH) billing/coding bootcamp
The MN FLEX program is collaborating with ArchPro Coding to provide a critical access hospital billing and coding bootcamp on February 11 & 12 from 9:30-2:00 pm.
The intended audience for this training is CAH billing/coding staff, billing/coding supervisors, hiring managers, and providers who create clinical documentation. The training is free to attend for staff at MN CAHs and will be presented virtually. The training will offer up to 11 CEUs and the option to take the Critical Access Hospital Coding and Billing online certification exam.
If you are interested in attending, you can register here: 2025 Minnesota Critical Access Hospital Coding and Billing Bootcamp February 11th - 12th, 2025.
ICD-11 training
The MN Small Rural Hospital Improvement Program (SHIP) is collaborating with ArchPro Coding to provide an ICD-11 coding readiness overview training on April 1 from 12:00-1:00 pm. The training is free to all SHIP participants and will be presented virtually.
If you are interested in attending you can register here Minnesota ICD-11 Coding Readiness Overview for Minnesota SHIP Hospitals April 1, 2025.
Call for participation: Minnesota Multisector Blueprint for Aging action teams
Thanks to the active engagement of community leaders along with leadership from government and community partners, grantees, subject matter experts, and older people spanning a variety of areas, the Age-Friendly Minnesota Council released the first Minnesota Multisector Blueprint for Aging.
You are invited to join the statewide effort now unfolding to move this work forward. Feel free to share your thoughts, sign up to be a subject matter expert, or commit your organization or agency as a champion of a specific tactic.
Action Teams
Join an action team to make this plan a reality starting in 2025. There is a need for people with lived experiences, subject matter expertise, and in key positions of leadership across state agencies and community organizations to step forward.
- Domain 1: Connected Communities
- Domain 2: Emergency Preparedness, Individual Rights and Safety
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Domain 3: Optimized Health and Longevity
- Domain 4: Economic Security and Vitality
Now open: Application for Rural Community Hospitals to participate in Demonstration Program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is now accepting new applications for the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration. The demonstration tests cost-based reimbursement for Medicare inpatient services for small rural hospitals with fewer than 51 beds that are not eligible to be Critical Access Hospitals.
As part of a broader rural strategy initiative, CMS hosted a Rural Health Hackathon in August 2024 to collaboratively produce creative, actionable ideas to address health care challenges facing rural communities. This Request for Applications (RFA) is one effort to help address these challenges.
The application is available on the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration webpage. Interested hospitals must apply by 10:59 pm on March 1. Hospitals currently participating in the demonstration do not need to complete a new application.
If you have questions about the demonstration, please email RCHDemo@cms.hhs.gov.
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