FY2022 Award for the Rural Public Health Workforce Training Network Technical Assistance Program

The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy has awarded over $1 million to the Georgia Health Policy Center in a three-year cooperative agreement intended to provide nationwide technical assistance (TA) to rural health care networks responding to COVID-19, pandemic-related workforce shortages. The TA will help rural health care networks expand the public health workforce capacity by supporting job development, training, and placement in rural communities. The TA will also strengthen the ability for networks to develop formal training and certification programs in the four workforce training tracks: Community health support, health IT and/or telehealth technical support, community para-medicine, and case management staff and/or respiratory therapists. The TA will be provided to 31 grantees of the Rural Public Health Workforce Training Network Program.