Application Deadline: April 20, 2010
The federal Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) as announced a funding opportunity to support the development of rural health networks that focus on activities relating to the recruitment and retention of emerging health professionals (students and residents). The program seeks to support a range of different approaches to community-based training and can include a focus either singularly or collectively on professions such as medicine, nursing, pharmacy and other allied health professions.

Approximately 20 awards are expected. Applicants must fulfill at least one of the eligibility requirements:

• Be located in a rural area or a rural census tract of an urban county, and all services must be provided in that rural area
• Exist exclusively to provide services to migrant and seasonal farm workers in rural areas and is supported under Section 330G of the Public Health Service Act
• Be a tribal government whose grant-funded activities will be conducted within their federally-recognized tribal area

For further information, go to www.grants.gov, then click on Find Grant Opportunities, Basic Search and type in the funding opportunity number HRSA-10-193. The Office of Rural Health Policy will hold a technical assistance call on Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 2 p.m. Eastern Time to assist applicants in preparing their applications. The toll-free number is 800.369.1914. The Passcode is Workforce. The Technical Assistance call will be recorded and available or playback within one hour of the end of the call and will be available until April 11, 2010. The phone number to hear the recorded call is 866.378.7476.

For further information, contact the program coordinator: Christina Villalobos at cvillalobos@hrsa.gov or 301.443.3590.