Notice2024-20584
Notice of Funding Extension for Rural Behavioral Health Workforce Centers-Northern Border Region
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Published
September 11, 2024
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Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
Abstract
HRSA will provide a performance period extension with supplemental funds to three fiscal year (FY) 21 award recipients with a period of performance ending on August 31, 2025. The supplemental funding will extend their current period of performance by 12 months to align with the FY 2022 award to an additional recipient, which has a period of performance from September 1, 2022, to August 31, 2025.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 176 (Wednesday, September 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73663-73664]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-20584]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Notice of Funding Extension for Rural Behavioral Health Workforce
Centers--Northern Border Region
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice of supplemental funding.
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SUMMARY: HRSA will provide a performance period extension with
supplemental funds to three fiscal year (FY) 21 award recipients with a
period of performance ending on August 31, 2025. The supplemental
funding will extend their current period of performance by 12 months to
align with the FY 2022 award to an additional recipient, which has a
period of performance from September 1, 2022, to August 31, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jillian Causey, Division Deputy
Director, Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and
Services Administration, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#87ede4e6f2f4e2fec7eff5f4e6a9e0e8f1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9df7fefce8eef8e4ddf5efeefcb3faf2eb">[email protected]</span></a> and 301-443-1493.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Intended Recipient(s) of the Award: Three FY 2021 award recipients:
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital--New Hampshire, Medical Care
Development, Inc.--Maine, Vermont Association For Mental Health, Inc.--
Vermont.
Amount of Non-Competitive Award: Three awards for $1,000,000 each.
Period of Performance: September 1, 2021, to August 31, 2025.
Assistance Listing (CFDA) Number: 93.912.
Award Instrument: Cooperative Agreement.
Authority: Section 711(b)(5) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
912(b)(5)).
Table 1--Recipients and Award Amounts
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Grant No. Award recipient name State Award amount
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U2SRH43521.............................. Mary Hitchcock Memorial NH $1,000,000
Hospital.
U2SRH43522.............................. Medical Care Development, Inc.. ME 1,000,000
U2SRH43523.............................. Vermont Association for Mental VT 1,000,000
Health Inc.
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Justification: The Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) is a
federal/state partnership for economic and community development in
northern Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. NBRC was
established by Congress in 2008 to help fund promising economic and
community development projects. The states of Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, and New York play a crucial role in the NBRC region.\1\ In FY
2021, HRSA competitively funded three organizations in the NBRC states
of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont for a period of performance of 3
years. In FY 2022, HRSA competitively funded another organization in
the NBRC state of New York for a 3-year period of performance. HRSA is
providing a 1-year extension of funding for the FY 2021 awards to align
with the FY 2022 award. This would align all awards with a period of
performance end date of August 31, 2025.
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\1\ <a href="https://www.nbrc.gov/content/northern-border-region">https://www.nbrc.gov/content/northern-border-region</a>.
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HRSA is implementing this extension to continue the work of the
three recipients because of their benefit to the NBRC region. During
their project period, they have increased access to behavioral health
and substance use disorder services and strengthened the behavioral
health workforce in the NBRC region to improve the health outcomes of
NBRC residents.
With program funding, recipients have provided scholarships to
mental health rehabilitation technicians to work in rural communities
and supported intern work, providing critically needed direct services
to the region's neediest, rural residents. Recipients have also funded
supervision for several behavioral health clinician positions that
serve rural counties, bringing in social workers and postdoctoral
psychologist fellows who were able to provide care where there
previously had been none. Recipients also have increased access by
connecting community members to important resources in their states,
including how to find or become a peer recovery coach.
Recipients have also worked to strengthen the behavioral health
workforce through training programs such as Project Extension for
Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO, including Medications for
Opioid Use Disorder Project ECHO and created the ``Recovery Jobs for
Beginners'' program for individuals seeking to work as Peer Recovery
Specialists. This program has provided rural communities in the NBRC
region with peer recovery specialists where there often are few or none
and increased provider skillsets and knowledge. In addition, recipients
launched the Mental Health Peer Specialist Certification program within
local community colleges in January 2024.
HRSA is implementing project period alignment of the three FY 2021
awards with the FY 2022 award recipient to allow for a seamless
continuation of activities and trainings in the region to continue
while also allowing all four organizations to identify sustainability
strategies over the next fiscal year.
Carole Johnson,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2024-20584 Filed 9-10-24; 8:45 am]
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