Song-Brown - Certified Nurse Midwifery Grant Program

Funder: California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI)

The Song-Brown Certified Nurse Midwifery Grant Program, administered by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI), aims to enhance the training of certified nurse midwives and licensed midwives. This grant prioritizes programs that successfully graduate individuals into underserved areas and support underrepresented groups in medicine. Funding opportunities include $13,000 per first-year student for existing slots and $75,000 for new expansion slots, promoting healthcare access in challenging communities.

Background and Mission
Pursuant to the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act (Song-Brown Act), Health & Safety Code Sections 128200, et. seq., the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) will consider applications to support the training of certified nurse midwives (CNM) and licensed midwives (LM).
HCAI shall give priority to programs that have demonstrated success in the following areas:

• Graduating individuals who practice in medically underserved areas.
• Enrolling members of underrepresented groups in medicine to the program.Locating the program’s main training site in a medically underserved area.
• Operating a main training site at which the majority of the patients are Medi-Cal recipients.
• Purpose and Description of Services

This grant opportunity will result in funding organizations to train certified nurse midwifery and licensed midwifery students to work in underserved communities.
Such strategies shall incorporate the following elements:
Establishing procedures to identify, recruit, and admit certified nurse midwifery and licensed midwifery students who possess characteristics which would suggest a predisposition to practice in areas of unmet need, and who express a commitment to serve in areas of unmet need.Implementing counseling and placement programs to encourage training program graduates to enter practice in areas of unmet need.Providing a preceptorship experience in an area of unmet need to enhance the potential of training program graduates to practice in such an area.
Award Categories
Existing Midwifery Slots-Existing Slots: Eligible programs may receive $13,000 per first-year student, with a maximum number of 14 students supported, for a maximum award amount of $182,000New Midwifery Slots at Existing Programs-Expansion Slots: Eligible programs may receive $75,000 per first-year student, with a maximum number of three students supported, for a maximum award amount of $225,000.