Funding Opportunity Area Health Education Center Infrastructure Development The following message is being forwarded to you on behalf of Ron Selge, Dean, CTE, CCCCO: ________________________________________ From: Selge, Ron [RSELGE@CCCCO.edu] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7:45 AM From: Healthcare Workforce Reform [mailto:HCRWorkforce@oshpd.ca.gov] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 11:02 AM To: Healthcare Workforce Reform Subject: Area Health Education Center Infrastructure Development Funding Opportunity Dear Colleagues, On April 22, 2011, HRSA announced the Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Infrastructure Development funding opportunity.  This funding opportunity aims at enabling entities to initiate health care workforce educational programs and to continue to carry out comparable programs that are operating at the time the award is made by planning, developing, operating and evaluating an AHEC program. Entities eligible to apply for AHEC Infrastructure Development awards must be a public or nonprofit private accredited school of medicine, either osteopathic (DO) or allopathic (MD), or incorporated consortia made up of such schools or the parent institution(s) of such schools.  With respect to States in which no AHEC program is in operation, a school of nursing is eligible to apply.  Each AHEC program awardee shall include at least one Area Health Education Center.  An academic institution shall use such assistance in collaboration with two or more disciplines. A synopsis for the Area Health Education Centers Infrastructure Development funding opportunity can be found below: Document Type: Modification to Previous  Grants Notice Funding Opportunity Number: HRSA-11-033 Opportunity Category: Discretionary Posted Date: Apr 22, 2011 Creation Date: Apr 22, 2011 Original Closing Date for Applications: Jun 10, 2011 Current Closing Date for Applications: Jun 10, 2011 Archive Date: Aug 09, 2011 Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement Category of Funding Activity: Health Category Explanation: Expected Number of Awards: 5 Estimated Total Program Funding: $5,000,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: CFDA Number(s): 93.824  --  Area Health Education Centers Infrastructure Development Awards Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: Yes See full application for more details: HRSA GRANT https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?ID=8A267421-7761-46E9-A6C6-F75613239575 Sergio Aguilar Graduate Student Assistant Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development Healthcare Workforce Development Division 400 R Street, Suite 330 Sacramento, CA 95811 Phone: (916) 326-3699 Fax: (916) 322-2588