Rural Network and Direct Services Technical Assistance Program

Goal 1: Increase access to and delivery of rural health care services by providing targeted, nationally available TA to community-based organizations and other relevant rural stakeholders serving rural populations, with a focus on current and future FORHP community-based awardees.Goal 2: Help R-CHSP TA recipients successfully address their unique unmet community needs through the development and implementation of adaptive TA models. Goal 3: Develop and share effective and usable evidence-based and best practice resources, models, tools and information, including information about rural health federal funding opportunities, for use by TA recipients serving rural populations, Goal 4: Facilitate collaboration across local, regional, state, and national levels to enhance the exchange of information and best practices that strengthen sustainable health care services and improve health outcomes in rural communities.

These types of domestic* organizations may apply: Public institutions of higher education Private institutions of higher education Nonprofits with or without a 501(c)(3) IRS status For-profit organizations, including small businesses State, county, city, township, and special district governments, including the District of Columbia, domestic territories, and the freely associated states Independent school districts Rural Emergency Hospitals Native American tribal governments Native American tribal organizations * Domestic means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. Individuals are not eligible applicants under this NOFO. These types of domestic* organizations may apply: Public institutions of higher education Private institutions of higher education Nonprofits with or without a 501(c)(3) IRS status For-profit organizations, including small businesses State, county, city, township, and special district governments, including the District of Columbia, domestic territories, and the freely associated states Independent school districts Rural Emergency Hospitals Native American tribal governments Native American tribal organizations * Domestic means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. Individuals are not eligible applicants under this NOFO.

Michele Gibson