(FOA)-Scholarships
for Disadvantaged Students (SDS) Program; March 3,
2020
Agency
Health
Resources and Services Administration
Description
This
program promotes diversity among the health professions by providing awards to
eligible health professions and nursing schools, for schools to provide
scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds who have a demonstrated
financial need and are enrolled full-time in a health profession program or
nursing program. Participating schools are responsible for selecting
scholarship recipients, making reasonable determinations of need, and providing
scholarships that do not exceed the allowable costs (i.e., tuition, reasonable
educational expenses and reasonable living expenses with a cap for the total
scholarship award of $ 40,000).
The
SDS Program objectives are to: 1) improve distribution, diversity, and supply
of primary care providers, 2) improve and strengthen the health profession and
nursing workforce by facilitating the entry of individuals from disadvantaged
backgrounds into those professions, and 3) improve quality and access to
healthcare to individuals in MUCs.
You
are encouraged to select and address one of HHS’s and HRSA’s clinical
priorities: Combatting the opioid crisis* / Improving Mental Health;
Value-based care delivery and quality improvement initiatives; Transforming the
workforce – targeting the need; Telehealth; Childhood Obesity; Maternal
Mortality.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants
are accredited programs or schools of medicine, osteopathic medicine,
dentistry, nursing (as defined in section 801 of the PHS Act), pharmacy,
podiatric medicine, optometry, veterinary medicine, public health,
chiropractic, allied health, a school offering a graduate program in behavioral
and mental health practice, or an entity providing programs for the training of
physician assistants.
Note: Multiple applications
from an organization with the same DUNS number are allowable; however, only one
application may be submitted per one health profession degree program.
Institutions must not submit a single application for multiple health profession
degree programs; rather, each application will represent one discipline. While
multiple applications from an institution are allowable, a maximum of three per
institution may be funded. Collaborative proposals are not
allowed.
Announcement
Number:
HRSA-20-006
Closing
Date:
March
3, 2020
Link
to Full Announcement
Contact
Information
Denise
Sorrell
(301)443-2909