Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP): National HCOP Academies

 
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    CFDA#

    93.822
     

    Funder Type

    Federal Government

    IT Classification

    B - Readily funds technology as part of an award

    Authority

    Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

    Summary

    The Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP): National HCOP Academies supports national efforts to diversify the health care workforce by funding projects to expand and support opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.

    The purpose of this grant program is to assist individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter a health profession through the development of academies that will support and guide them through the educational pipeline. National HCOP Academies' goals are to:

    • Improve recruitment, matriculation, retention, and graduation rates by implementing tailored enrichment programs designed to address the academic and social needs of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
    • Provide opportunities for community-based experiential health professions training, emphasizing experiences in underserved communities.

    Applicants are required to include the National Ambassador Program as well as 2 other structured programs:

    1. The HCOP National Ambassador Program- This program is required for all applicants. The program should prepare students to meet the admissions requirements for the next level of their education and receive a health professions degree from the applicant's college/university or partnering institutions. The curriculum should integrate activities, such as trainings and research projects, in the clinical and public health areas of behavioral health, health disparities, social determinants of health, and health equity. Stipend support is allowable and encouraged for students participating in this program
    2. Other Structured Programs
      1. HCOP Summer Program: A designed curriculum or set of activities for a minimum of 25 students from a designated educational level that provides six (6) hours of structured learning activities per day for a minimum of six weeks.
      2. HCOP Saturday Academy: A designed curriculum or set of activities for a minimum of 25 students that provides six (6) hours of structured learning activities per day for a minimum of 20 weeks.
      3. HCOP Pre-matriculation Program: A designed curriculum or set of activities for a minimum of 10 students that provides six (6) hours of structured learning activities per day for a minimum of four weeks.
      4. HCOP Post-baccalaureate Program: A comprehensive program for a minimum of five (5) students for health professions school and/or allied health programs. The student must have an undergraduate degree with a science focus, and a conditional acceptance to a health or allied health professions school.
      5. HCOP Adult/Non-Traditional Students (including Veterans): A comprehensive program for a minimum of 10 students that provides educational opportunities to adults interested in pursuing a bachelor's degree. 

    An Unstructured Activity is defined as a stand-alone, single training activity that is not part of a designed curriculum or set of activities. Unstructured programs can include the following:

    1. Clinical Training Opportunities: Applicants must provide clinical and/or experiential training opportunities to health and allied health students through working at community-based, primary health facilities that are public or private non-profit providers.
    2. Strategic Partnership Activities: Applicants must have articulation agreements in place within their own institution and/or with partner institutions allowing for students' matriculation to the next level of the education pipeline (e.g., two or four-year college, university, or a graduate level health or allied health professions program).
    3. Recruitment Outreach Strategies: Identify, recruit, and select individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, as so determined, for education and training in a health profession;
    4. Facilitating Entry: Facilitate the entry of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds into health or allied health professions schools;
    5. Counseling, Mentoring and other Services: Provide counseling, mentoring or other services (including retention activities) designed to assist individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to successfully complete their education at such a school;
    6. Financial Aid Information Dissemination: Publicize existing sources of financial aid available to students in the education program at such a school or those who are undertaking training necessary to qualify them to enroll in such a program;
    7. Stipends: Provide stipends to individuals for general living expenses to help defray students' cost(s) for any period of health professions education at a health professions school; not to exceed twelve months.
    8. Scholarships: Provide scholarship support to individuals to cover tuition, fees, books, and other related educational expenses for any period of health professions education at a health professions school.

    Applicants are required to propose activities that address the academic and social support needs of one or more of the following target populations from disadvantaged backgrounds:

    • Rising high school juniors/seniors - Identify, recruit and prepare students from disadvantaged backgrounds to competitively enter and complete college (2 or 4 year colleges);
    • Adult/non-traditional learners (including veterans) – Provide academic and social support to adult/non-traditional students from disadvantaged backgrounds, and provide training to prepare students for competitive entry into and graduation from the applicant's institution or an accredited allied health or health professions school.
    • Allied health professions degree students – Provide academic and social support to retain and assist students, including first-generation college students from disadvantaged backgrounds, enrolled in 2-year programs to graduate with an associate's degree and/or transfer to a 4- year institution. This includes two-year allied health programs serving as career ladders to doctoral and other graduate health professions degrees
    • Undergraduate students – Provide academic and social support to students from disadvantaged backgrounds, and provide training to prepare for competitive entry into the applicant's institution or an accredited health professions school.
    • Health professions degree students – Provide academic and social support to health professions students, including first-generation college students from disadvantaged backgrounds, and provide training in rural and underserved communities in order to facilitate timely completion and graduation of a health professions degree.
     

    History of Funding

    Approximately $11,000,000 was available for up to 20 awards in FY15.

    Additional Information

    Funds may not be used:

    • Scholarships that exceed 20 percent of your total budget;
    • Direct compensation or payment to parents of HCOP participants who participate in HCOP activities;
    • Training expenses for faculty and staff;
    • Test taking fees for health professions schools;
    • Dependency allowances;
    • Construction of facilities, acquisition of land, or fundraising;
    • Interview trips to health and allied health professions schools;
    • Support of courses that are offered as part of the regular academic curriculum and not part of the HCOP programming;
    • Sectarian instruction or for any religious purpose;
    • Job placement activities;
    • Activities for health professionals (e.g., internships, externships, residencies);
    • Remedial courses not offered during HCOP programming;
    • Faculty support for full-time course work during the academic year;
    • Pilot projects, planning projects, feasibility studies, or activities of a similar nature; or
    • Meals, beverages, lodging, and transportation that are not essential to conduct HCOP activity.

    Contacts

    Tammy Mayo-Blake

    Tammy Mayo-Blake
    Division of Health Careers and Financial Support
    5600 Fishers Lane
    Rockville, MD 20857
    (301) 443-0827

    Audrey Adade

    Audrey Adade

    ,
    (301) 594-4479
     

  • Eligibility Details

    Eligible applicants include:

    • Accredited schools of Medicine; Osteopathic medicine; Public health; Dentistry; Veterinary medicine; Optometry; Pharmacy; Allied health; Chiropractic, or Podiatric medicine;
    • Public and nonprofit private schools that offer graduate programs in behavioral and mental health;
    • Programs for the training of physician assistants; and
    • Other public or private nonprofit health or educational entities including community colleges, technical colleges and tribal colleges.

    Eligible entities must be located within the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia.

    Deadline Details

    Applications are to be submitted by May 24, 2023. For future deadlines please visit the program page for recent information.

    Award Details

    Approximately $13,500,000 will be available annually to fund up to 21 recipients. Awards will be up to $650,000 per year and will last for 5 years. The period of performance is September 1, 2023, through August 31, 2028. Cost sharing/matching is not required.

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