Health Resources and Services Administration October 1, 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)'s Bureau of Health Professions is issuing a non-competitive single source award to the Texas AHEC EastUniversity of Texas Medical Branch, an AHEC program grantee, to add a Behavioral Health component to a Community Health Worker (CHW) curriculum, pilot and evaluate it in primary care settings, and disseminate the curriculum. This project shall be titled: Community Health Worker (CHW) Behavioral Health Primary Care Integration Project. In fiscal year (FY) 2012, $486,394 will be available to fully fund this cooperative agreement with a single project/budget period of four years. The Texas AHEC East is uniquely qualified and has the capacity, capability, expertise, experience, and infrastructure to expeditiously, effectively, and efficiently implement the CHW Behavioral Health Primary Care Integration Project within their existing educational programming, and disseminate the tested model nationally. CHWs play an important role in increasing access to services for vulnerable populations, and increasing support for direct service workers, including community health workers, which is a priority for the Department of Health and Human Services as well as the Health Resources and Services Administration.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)'s Bureau of Health Professions is issuing a non-competitive single source program expansion supplement award to the NEPQR Program grantee TAMUCC- CONHS to build upon their feasibility study, Transitioning Enlisted Health Care Training into Academic Credit for Nursing Education Programs, and undertake a dissemination program to advance the goal of aligning enlisted health care training with civilian nursing program requirements. In fiscal year (FY) 2012, $178,374 will be available to fund this award. TAMUCC-CONHS is uniquely qualified and has the capacity, capability, expertise, experience, and infrastructure to expeditiously, effectively, and efficiently implement the project within their existing educational programming. During the previous year, TAMUCC-CONHS has gained in-depth insight into the full range academic, financial, and socio-economic barriers that interfere with successful transition from military to civilian careers, and how these barriers are compounded by the burden of navigating the military- academic labyrinth. Thus they are well-positioned to bridge the gap between health care training command programs and academic programs in schools of nursing work.