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FY 2025 BPR NCC Released for April 1 Budget Period Starts
HRSA released the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Budget Period Progress Report (BPR) Non-Competing Continuation (NCC) (5-H80-25-004) for Health Center Program award recipients with an April 1 budget period start date. These award recipients have a BPR submission available for completion in HRSA’s Electronic Handbooks (EHBs) with a deadline of 5:00 p.m. ET on Friday, November 1.
Technical assistance (TA) materials and a list of deadlines for all FY 2025 BPRs are available on the BPR TA webpage.
Deadline Reminder: SAC Applications for March 1 and April 1 Starts
The application deadlines are approaching for FY 2025 Service Area Competition (SAC) Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFO) for service areas with a March 1, 2025, or April 1, 2025, period of performance start date.
The table below lists application deadlines for all released FY 2025 SAC NOFOs. We’ve bolded the rows to which this announcement refers.
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Start Date
(in 2025)
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NOFO #
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Grants.gov
Due by 11:59 p.m. ET
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EHBs
Due by 5:00 p.m. ET
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March 1
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HRSA-25-014
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Passed
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September 26
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April 1
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HRSA-25-015
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September 24
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October 24
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May 1
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HRSA-25-016
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October 15
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November 14
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June 1
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HRSA-25-017
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October 29
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December 2
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Reminder: NAP Application Resources
If you applied in Grants.gov for New Access Points (NAP) funding, we have resources to help you complete Phase 2 of your application (due in EHBs by 5:00 p.m. ET on Monday, September 30). Visit the NAP TA webpage for forms, instructions, and videos, and to get to our FAQ page, the Unmet Needs Score Map Tool, and the Health Center Program GeoCare Navigator. Submit questions via the BPHC Contact Form.
TODAY: HHS Office for Civil Rights Briefing on Recent Rulemaking
Join us to hear directly from the HHS Office for Civil Rights on recent final rules important to health centers and other HRSA awardees.
3:00-4:00 p.m. ET
Registration page
Our recent bulletin includes more details on what to expect.
Referral of Separated Immigrant Families to Health Centers for Health Services
We sent a bulletin on this important topic last week. Please share it broadly within your organization including with your front desk staff, billing departments, and all service sites.
DUE THURSDAY: Health Center COVID-19 Survey
Health centers using HRSA COVID-19 Bridge funds are still required to complete the survey this month. The September 6 survey is due by 11:59 p.m. your local time on Thursday, September 12. Please ONLY report August data in this survey.
Last month, we announced in a bulletin that this is the FINAL Health Center COVID-19 Survey.
Our COVID-19 Data Collection Survey Tool User Guide can help you understand how to report. If you still have questions, use the BPHC Contact Form (COVID-19 > COVID-19 Surveys).
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Quarterly 340B Program Registration
Quarterly 340B Program site registration is open from October 1 to 15. Health centers will be able to register a site that has been verified as implemented and with a site status reflected as “active” in EHBs Form 5B through Wednesday, November 27. After that date, the system will close to prepare for the January 1, 2025, start.
Email the 340B Prime Vendor Program or call 888-340-2787 (Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. ET) to register a new site or ask questions. You will need to provide the following information:
- Health center name
- Site/clinic name
- Site IDs for all sites
- HRSA/BPHC grant number
- Contact name and email address
- Authorizing official name and email address
The Authorizing Official will receive an email message that the account is unlocked and a registration may be submitted.
National Recovery Month
National Recovery Month is held every September to promote and support new evidence-based treatment and recovery practices, the nation’s strong and proud recovery community, and the dedication of service providers and communities who make recovery in all its forms possible.
SAMHSA’s resources can support your efforts:
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Behavioral Health
Crisis Intervention and De-escalation in Primary Care
In this learning collaborative, Renaye James Healthcare Advisors (RJHA) will help health care workers identify, de-escalate, and intervene in crisis behaviors in the health care setting. Speakers will use evidence-based practice interventions that promote safety for patients and staff by emphasizing preventive measures and least-restrictive/non-physical interventions to reduce the risk of unsafe crisis behaviors. Each session will provide an opportunity for participants to plan de-escalation and crisis interventions that promote patient and staff safety in their health centers. Visit the application page for details.
HIV
PrEP Champion Preceptorship
The HRSA-funded National Clinician Consultation Center (NCCC) is accepting applications for its preceptorship. This intensive pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) training and capacity-building opportunity will help you integrate pharmacy services into PrEP care. Applicants must be non-physician clinical staff at health centers that have received Ending the HIV Epidemic-Primary Care HIV Prevention (PCHP) funding. You’ll learn how to integrate pharmacy services into PrEP care. Visit NCCC’s website to learn more or apply by Friday, September 20. Space is limited.
Hypertension
NACHC's Heart Health Hub: Your Source for Preventing Heart Attacks and Strokes
NACHC receives funding from CDC for its Million Hearts initiative. NACHC’s new Heart Health Hub houses resources for care teams, quality improvement professionals, and health center leaders looking for evidence-based strategies to control hypertension and manage cholesterol. It gives you easy access to downloadable tools and training to help you and your patients feel motivated to prevent life-threatening risks.
Workforce
Workforce Well-being in Health Center Strategic Plans
Are you interested in ensuring staff retention, motivation, and engagement in your health center through strategic planning? Watch our series of short videos, then join our interactive office hour session to receive guidance from expert facilitators. They will explain how you can help your organization achieve the resilience and adaptability it needs to thrive.
Thursday, September 26
2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Registration page
NTTAP Learning Collaboratives
See the application pages for dates, times, and more information:
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Gender-affirming Care in Medical Respite
Explore best practices for building a gender-affirming medical respite program with experts from the National Institute for Medical Respite Care, a special program of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council. You’ll collaborate with medical respite programs to identify areas of improvement and take tangible steps toward a more inclusive experience. Visit the application page.
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Outreach and Enrollment: Best Practices to Boost Health Insurance Coverage
Health Outreach Partners invites you to learn how to navigate questions and challenges regarding the current Medicaid redeterminations and strengthen your knowledge of public health insurance programs. Visit the application page.
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Increase Access to Care
Join other health centers to share challenges, successes, and promising practices for increasing access to care for migratory and seasonal agricultural workers (MSAWs). The National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH) will provide guest speakers, tools, and resources to help you better identify and reach MSAWs — as well as properly capturing them in your Uniform Data System (UDS) reporting. Visit the application page.
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Bridging Gaps in Language Access and Cultural Competency for Indigenous MSAWs
NCFH’s opportunity will enhance your understanding of language access and cultural competency for indigenous MSAWs. Speakers will highlight Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS), explore effective strategies for developing language access programs, and provide hands-on experience and best practices to create culturally and linguistically appropriate health education materials. Visit the application page.
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School-Based Health Center Start-Up
The School-Based Health Alliance’s opportunity aims to support partnerships between health care organizations and schools to provide or expand access to primary care and behavioral health services in schools. Visit the application page to apply by Tuesday, September 17.
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Maintaining Personal Connection in a Digital Age
The Health Information Technology, Evaluation, and Quality (HITEQ) Center invites you to explore how technology can enhance, rather than hinder, personal connections in primary care. Speakers will focus on the person-centered needs of providers, patients, and staff. Visit the application page for details and to apply by Thursday, October 3.
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Crisis Intervention and De-escalation in Primary Care
See the announcement above.
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Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC) has opened its common application for these opportunities, which both have CE credits available.
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Comprehensive and Team-Based Care
With coaching support and transformational strategies, you will begin your journey towards a high-performance team-based care model, develop a highly trained clinical primary care team, and work to improve at least one UDS measure.
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Postgraduate Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Programs
Gain a roadmap and coaching support on how to implement the formal training program, including program drivers, program structure, recruiting, curriculum development, evaluation, and program accreditation.
Strategies for Mitigating Burnout Among the Health Center Workforce
Health center leaders must strive to understand the root causes of staff burnout as well as its psychological, behavioral, and physical effects. The Association of Clinicians for the Underserved’s STAR2 Center published a new factsheet that provides a high-level overview and real examples of ways to recognize and reduce burnout and prioritize wellness. Access it on the STAR2 Center website.
Teaching Health Center Primary Care Residency Fair
We invite all mission-driven medical and dental students to find your next residency or training opportunity at HRSA’s Teaching Health Center Primary Care Residency Fair. Learn about the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program and available opportunities to advance your career. You will be able to network with recruiters from Teaching Health Centers across the nation.
Wednesday, September 25
6:00-8:00 p.m. ET
Registration page
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