School-Based Health Center Capital Program
The School-Based Health Center Capital Program seeks to increase access to mental health, substance abuse, and childhood obesity-related services in operational school-based health centers (SBHCs), by funding minor alterations/renovations (A/R) projects and or the purchase of movable equipment, including telehealth equipment.
Average award: FY2021 average value $32,000 (est.)
Number of awards: 130,000 recipients FY2021 (est.)
Cost share/matching required: No; however, recipients must cover remaining service costs.
Most recent deadline: April 17, 2018
Expected Award Cycle: Irregular offerings
This opportunity does not have a regular cycle release pattern, having been offered in 2010, 2012, and 2018. In the most recent cycle, applications were available February 2, 2018 and the two phase application had deadlines of April 17, 2018 and May 31, 2018. Requests are for a project period of two years.
School-Based Health Center Capital Program awards increase access to mental health, substance abuse, and childhood obesity-related services in operational school-based health centers (SBHCs), by funding minor alteration/renovation (A/R) projects and/or purchase of moveable equipment, including telehealth equipment. Applicants must demonstrate how their proposal will support the provision of effective, efficient, quality health care, and lead to improvements in access to mental health, substance abuse, and childhood obesity-related services at the SBHC site(s). Proposals may request funding for up to four minor A/R projects or one equipment-only project and up to three minor A/R projects. The SBHC site(s) for which capital funding is provided under must be currently operational and providing services to patients.
Projects may include work to modernize, improve, and/or reconfigure the interior arrangements or other physical characteristics of a facility and/or installation of equipment in an existing facility. Purchase of related moveable equipment to be located at the site proposed to be altered/renovated. Examples of equipment that you may propose in an equipment-only project include mobile medical vans, telehealth equipment, exercise equipment, health education equipment, laptops, servers, video conferencing equipment, and scales.
For FY2019, there were 120 SBHC grants, ranging from $11,110 to $100,000 and with an average of $93,000. There was no minimum award; the maximum allowable request was $100,000.
Applicants must be a SBHC or an eligible sponsoring facility of a SBHC applying on behalf of a SBHC. Sponsoring facilities include local education agencies. A qualified SBHC:
- Is located in or near a school facility of a school district or board, or a school facility of an Indian tribe or tribal organization; and
- Is organized through school, community, and health provider relationships; and
- Is administered by a sponsoring facility; and
- Through health professionals, provides primary health services to children in accordance with State and local law, including laws relating to licensure and certification; and
- Satisfies such other requirements as a state may establish for the operation of such a clinic.
A funding preference is given to SBHCs that serve a large population of children eligible for medical assistance under the state Medicaid plan under the Social Security Act or under a waiver of such plan or children eligible for child health assistance under the state child health plan.
- The District School Board of Pasco County (Land O Lakes, Florida) received $100,000 in FY2019 for alteration and renovation of a school-based health center.
- Plato School District (Plato, MO) received $100,000 in FY2019 to support capital improvement at the school-based health center.
- Katahdin Valley Health Center (Patten Maine) received $100,000 in FY2019 to support primary health services for school aged children.
A two-tier submission process is required. Phase 1 of the application is submitted via Grants.gov and consists of: the application project abstract, project performance site locations, the lobbying form, and key contacts. Phase 2 of the application provid
Peggie Harrison, Public Health Analyst
Office of Policy and Program Development
Bureau of Primary Health Care
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