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Health
Careers Opportunity Program grants increase
the number of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds in the health and allied
health professions. A more diverse health workforce is needed to meet the needs
of underserved populations. HCOP
enhances the academic skills of students from disadvantaged backgrounds and supports
them in successfully competing, entering and graduating from health professions
training programs. Students
participating in HCOP must be: - Disadvantaged
Students - defined as a student from an environment that has inhibited
the individual from obtaining the knowledge, skills and abilities to succed in
a health professions school or from a program providing education or training
in an allied health profession, and/or a student from a family with an
annual income below a level based on low-income thresholds according to
family size
- In K-12, undergraduate
or graduate programs
- U.S. citizens,
non-citizen nationals or foreign nationals with a visa permitting permanent U.S.
residence
All
Health Career Opportunities Programs - Recruit
individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds for health professions training
- Assist disadvantaged students to enter
training programs in health or allied health professions
- Provide
counseling, mentoring and other services that help students successfully complete
their training
- Provide preliminary
education and health research training
- Publicize
financial aid and financial planning resources
to students and parents, as well as information about health care careers and
training
- Expose students to community-based
primary health care with public and private nonprofit providers.
- Develop
a larger and more competitive applicant pool through partnerships with
institutions of higher education, school districts and other community-based entities.
Eligibility
- Schools of Medicine (allopathic or osteopathic),
Public Health, Dentistry, Physician Assistants, Veterinary Medicine, Optometry,
Pharmacy, Podiatric Medicine, Allied Health Chiropractic or graduate programs
in Clinical Psychology
- Public or private
nonprofit health or educational entities
- May
be a university, college, junior college, state or local government health or
education agency, health or education association or organization
- Located
in a state, U.S. territory or the District of Columbia
- Not be a nursing program, which
by law are funded through Nursing
Workforce Diversity grants
Health
Careers Opportunity Program Grantees
For
more information on the Health Careers Opportunity Program, contact LCDR Karen
Smith, ksmith1@hrsa.gov, 301-443-1348
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