Health Center Program Service Expansion - School-Based Service Sites

This notice announces the opportunity for current Health Center Program award recipients to apply for FY 2021 Health Center Program Service Expansion School-Based Service Sites (SBSS) supplemental funding. The purpose of SBSS is to expand access to health center services by increasing the number of patients who access comprehensive primary health care through Health Center Program award recipients' service delivery sites located at schools (preschool1 through secondary school (i.e., high school). Health centers will accomplish this by adding new Health Center Program service delivery sites at schools or expanding required and additional health care services at existing Health Center Program service delivery sites located at schools. Such sites (Health Center Program service delivery sites located at a school or on the grounds of a school) are hereafter referred to as school-based service sites. For purposes of this funding opportunity, service expansion is defined as new or expanded general primary medical care, mental health, substance use disorder, oral health, vision, and/or enabling services provided face-to-face or virtually to health center patients at school-based service sites. Health centers may not use SBSS funding to support services provided on behalf of third party entities, including schools and/or school districts. Health centers must ensure compliance with all Health Center Program requirements, including those described in the Health Center Compliance Manual as well as those relating to scope of project, in operating new or expanded school-based service sites.