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New Report Provides Substance Use and Mental Health Information for Each State
Mar 7, 2008 -- A new report from the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, providing analysis of substance use and mental health patterns occurring in each state, reveals that there are wide variations among the states in problems like illicit drug use and underage drinking, but that no state was immune from these problems.
A New Job Track for Single Mothers in Wyoming
Mar 6, 2008 -- BlueRidgeNow.com, (NC) article tells of the Climb Wyoming program, which takes women who have absorbed a few of life’s body blows — bad or absent men, drugs, public assistance and jail are all common stories — and combines free job training with psychological counseling.
Plan Aims to End Rural Homelessness in 10 years
Mar 6, 2008 -- St. Cloud Times, (MN) article reports that officials in the 14-county Central Minnesota region have presented a 10-year plan to end homelessness in the region.
A New Push to Help Families of Veterans
Mar 4, 2008 -- Christian Science Monitor article tells how recognition is growing in the military that soldiers' injuries put extra hardships on immediate family members.
VA Taps $37 Million for Homeless Grants
Feb 28, 2008 -- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is designating $37 million to fund at least 2,250 new transitional housing beds by giving grants to local providers, the largest one-time designation of funds for the homeless program in VA’s history.
Feds Take Aim at Rural Fire Deaths
Feb 19, 2008 -- Associated Press article via Boston Globe, (MA) reports that rural communities -- where people are at greatest danger of dying by fire -- usually lack programs for free distribution of smoke alarms, a new federal report says.
Out of Range: Rural Communities Lack Storm Sirens
Feb 8, 2008 -- Daily Yonder article asks, how can rural communities prepare for deadly weather when storm sirens are too localized and expensive? Radios and text messaging may save more lives.
Final Welfare Reform Regulations Announced
Feb 6, 2008 -- These changes to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, posted yesterday in the Federal Register, will help move individuals off of the welfare rolls and into the workplace by giving states the flexibility to design their own effective welfare-to-work initiatives.
FCC, USDA Launch Rural Broadband Web Site
Feb 5, 2008 -- Government Technology reports that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the launch of a new, online resource for those in rural America looking to bring the benefits of broadband services to their communities.
Bush Administration Seeks $38.5 Billion HUD Budget in 2009
Feb 4, 2008 -- The Bush Administration’s Fiscal Year 2009 Budget seeks $38.5 billion for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which represents a $3.2 billion or nine percent increase over the President’s proposed budget for FY 2008 and $1 billion more than HUD’s current budget authority.
Housing Rehabilitation Benefits Rural Communities
Feb 1, 2008 -- Housing Assistance Council article tells how low-income residents are not the only ones assisted when their homes in rural America are rehabilitated.
Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant Program
Application deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis.
Loans and grants are to assist in economically developing rural areas.
Drug Free Communities Support Program
Application deadline: Mar 21, 2008
Grants to reduce substance abuse among youth and to establish and strengthen collaboration among communities.
Community Outreach and Assistance Partnership Program
Application deadline: Mar 24, 2008
Grants for collaborative outreach and assistance programs for limited resource, socially disadvantaged and other traditionally under-served farmers and ranchers, who produce priority commodities.
Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP)
Application deadline: Mar 24, 2008
Grants to increase domestic consumption of agricultural commodities by expanding direct producer-to-consumer market opportunities.
Assets for Independence Demonstration Program
Application deadline: Mar 25, 2008
These projects are designed to assist low-income people in becoming economically self-sufficient.
Improving the Well-Being of Children - Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative
Application deadline: Mar 26, 2008
Grants to fund projects that offer approaches to remove barriers to forming lasting families and healthy marriages in Native communities.
Social and Economic Development Strategies Program for Native Americans (SEDS)
Application deadline: Mar 26, 2008
Grants are focused on strengthening children, families, and communities through community-based organizations, Tribes, and Village governments.
Community Connect Broadband Grant Program
Application deadline: Mar 28, 2008
Grants for communities without broadband service to provide residential service and connect facilities such as police and fire stations, health care, libraries and schools.
High Energy Cost Grant Program
Application deadline: Mar 28, 2008
Grants to assist communities with extremely high energy costs.
Older Adults Targeted Capacity Expansion (TCE) Grant Program
Application deadline: Mar 28, 2008
Grants to help communities provide direct services and build the necessary infrastructure to support expanded services for meeting the diverse mental health needs of older persons.
"Spring Into Action" Grants
Application deadline: Mar 31, 2008
Grants for projects with a youth focus or grants to general community action projects.
2008 National Community-Based Lead Outreach and Training Grant Program
Application deadline: Mar 31, 2008
Grants to reduce incidences of childhood lead poisoning in low-income communities with older housing.
My Hometown Helper Grant Program
Application deadline: Mar 31, 2008
Grants for community projects including lights or bleachers for baseball, soccer or football fields; Books for school, library, or literacy programs; Playground equipment; Red Cross health and safety programs; Swimming and lifeguard training and more.
Rural Business Opportunity Grant
Application deadline: Mar 31, 2008
Grants to improve the economic conditions of rural areas including technical assistance for business development and economic development planning.
2008 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program
Application deadline: Apr 1, 2008
Grants to fund fire prevention programs and carry out fire prevention programming.
Not Seen, Not Heard: Helping Children of Domestic Violence
Application deadline: Apr 1, 2008
Grants to organizations that assist children who have been exposed to or are victims of domestic violence.
Reclaiming Futures: Communities Helping Teens Overcome Drugs, Alcohol and Crime
Application deadline: Apr 1, 2008
A new national dissemination program, through a learning collaborative that shares resources, improves data collection and utilization, and promotes new standards of practice, to help teens with drug and alcohol problems.
National Emergency or Disaster Grants to Assist Low-Income Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
Application deadline: Apr 4, 2008
Funding for the purpose of providing emergency services to low-income migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
Rural Cooperative Development Grants (RCDG)
Application deadline: Apr 8, 2008
Grants to improve the economic condition of rural areas through cooperative development.
Capital Grant Component of VA's Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program
Application deadline: Apr 9, 2008
Grants to help offset the capital expenses of organizations that create and provide supported housing and/or supportive service center services for homeless veterans.
VA's Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program
Application deadline: Apr 9, 2008
Funding to help offset the operating expenses of providing supported housing and supportive services for homeless veterans.
Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program Loans and Grants
Application deadline: Apr 14, 2008
Loans and grants designed to provide access to education, training and health care resources for people in rural America.
MetLife Foundation Family Caregiver Awards Program
Application deadline: Apr 15, 2008
The goal of this program is to improve the quality of life of family caregivers by recognizing and supporting the efforts of not-for-profit community groups that work with them.
Building Healthy Teen Relationships
Application deadline: Apr 16, 2008
Funding to support the creation and evaluation of comprehensive community-based models of prevention that aim to decrease relationship violence and increase positive, protective relationship skills.
Grants to Expand Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity in Targeted Areas of Need
Application deadline: Apr 18, 2008
Grants to expand and or/enhance the community's ability to provide a comprehensive, integrated, and community-based response to a targeted, well-documented substance abuse treatment capacity problem and/or improve the quality and intensity of services.
Rural Housing Preservation Grants (Section 533) for Fiscal Year 2008
Application deadline: Apr 21, 2008
Grants to assist rural low-income homeowners and renters to repair and rehabilitate their homes.
Ronald McDonald House Charities Grant Program
Letter of Intent (Required): Apr 28, 2008
Application deadline: Apr 28, 2008
Grants to organizations that help children read, provide nutritious after-school meals, offer life-changing surgeries, or help prevent life-threatening disease.
National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative Community Treatment and Services Center Grants
Application deadline: Apr 29, 2008
Grants to improve treatment and services for all children and adolescents in the United States who have experienced traumatic events.
Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI)
Application deadline: May 5, 2008
Grants to provide financial and technical assistance to recipients to develop their capacity and ability to undertake projects related to housing, community facilities, or community and economic development.
Vocational Rehabilitation Services Projects for American Indians with Disabilities
Application deadline: May 5, 2008
Grants to provide vocational rehabilitation services to American Indians with disabilities who reside on or near Federal or State reservations.
Grants to Tribes, Tribal Organizations, and Migrant Programs for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Programs
Application deadline: May 12, 2008
The goal of the programs and activities supported by these funds is to prevent the occurrence or recurrence of abuse or neglect within the Tribal and Migrant populations.
Fiscal Year 2008 Food Stamp Participation Grants
Application deadline: May 15, 2008
Grants to improve the accessibility and awareness of USDA's Food Stamp Program for low-income households.
Great American Bake Sale Grant
Application deadline: May 30, 2008
Grants program that helps ensure that low-income children receive nutritious food during critical times when they are out of school and particularly vulnerable to hunger.
Presbyterian Hunger Program
Application deadline: May 31, 2008
The Presbyterian Hunger Program provides grants in the five areas: 1) Direct Food Relief; 2) Development Assistance; 3) Influencing Public Policy; 4) Life-style Integrity; and 5) Education and Interpretation.
Brookdale Foundation National Group Respite Program
Application deadline: Jul 2, 2008
Awards consist of seed grants to service providers that offer new, dementia-specific adult day programming to participants, along with support to caregivers, in order to help individuals remain in their homes.
2008 Children's Initiative
Letter of Intent (Required): Apr 1, 2008
Application deadline: Aug 1, 2008
Funding to create and promote stability and resiliency for children who have been exposed to domestic violence.
Healthy Sprouts Awards
Application deadline: Oct 15, 2008
These awards support school garden programs that use the garden to teach about nutrition and the issue of hunger in the United States.
SAMHSA Knowledge Dissemination Conference Grants
Application deadline: Oct 31, 2008
Funding for disseminating knowledge about practices within the mental health services and substance abuse prevention and treatment fields and integrating that knowledge into real-world practice as effectively and efficiently as possible.
Youth Garden Grants Program
Application deadline: Nov 1, 2008
Helps children reap rewards and vital life lessons from working in gardens and habitats.
Demystifying the Rehabilitation Act: What Faith-Based and Community Organizations Need to Know About Using Federal Financial Assistance to Serve People with Disabilities
Provides information for faith-based and community organizations that received financial assistance to serve people with disabilities from the United State Department of Labor. Includes a list of national resources that can help organizations deliver services to people with disabilities.
Organization: U.S. Department of Labor
Date: 2008
Designation of Medically Underserved Populations and Health Professional Shortage Areas; Proposed Rule
Consolidates the criteria for designating medically underserved populations (MUPs) and health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) into a single new methodology called the Index of Primary Care Underservice.
Organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
Date: 02 / 2008
Disaster Preparedness Training for Tribal Leaders
Describes a disaster preparedness training program for tribal leaders conducted in Arizona. Discusses the role of cultural competency, respect for tribal sovereignty, solicitation of historical examples of indigenous preparedness, and incorporation of tribal community networks in the success of the program.
Date: 2008
Journal: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology Volume: 3 Issue: 2
Education's Role in the Metro-Nonmetro Earnings Divide
Discusses the earnings gap between rural and urban workers, with comparison of rural-urban earnings for workers with different levels of education. Addresses other potential causes for the rural-urban earnings gap, as well as related issues such as cost-of-living differences.
Organization: USDA Economic Research Service
Date: 02 / 2008
Journal: Amber Waves
End-of-Life Care: Key Components Provided by Programs in Four States
Describes six key components in providing care to Medicare beneficiaries at the end of life. Includes information from site visits to programs in Arizona, Florida, Oregon, and Wisconsin. Discusses challenges of providing end-of-life care services to rural residents.
Organization: Government Accountability Office
Date: 12 / 2007
Examination of Food Assistance Availability to Rural Pennsylvanians
Shows that rural Pennsylvanians suffer more food insecurity and depend more on food pantry networks than is true nationally.
Organization: Center for Rural Pennsylvania
Date: 01 / 2008
National Advisory Committee on Rural Health & Human Services Meeting Minutes, Madison, Wisconsin, September 12-14, 2007.
Minutes from the NACRHHS, a 21-member citizens' panel that provides recommendations on rural health and human services issues to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Meeting included the following topics: welfare reform, state Medicaid waivers, and Toyota Motor Company Health Initiatives.
Organization: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
Date: 09 / 2007
Nonmetro America: Conditions and Trends
Summarizes key demographic and economic indicators in the United States, with an emphasis on nonmetropolitan areas in each state. Prepared for the Agriculture Chairs Summit, St. Louis, Missouri, January 18-20, 2008.
Organization: Rural Policy Research Institute
Date: 01 / 2008
President’s Faith-Based and Community Initiative in 50 States: A Report to the Nation’s Governors
Details the progress of each state's action, the number of awards won by non profits, the funding they received, and some of the programs each state is helping to advance.
Organization: White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
Date: 02 / 2008
Profile of Latinos in Rural America
This brief uses recent data from the Census Bureau’s 2006 American Community Survey (ACS) to present a snapshot of the Latino population in the nonmetropolitan United States.
Organization: Carsey Institute
Date: 2008
Rethinking Human Services: Faces of Poverty
Looks at the University of Wisconsin’s Poverty Dispatches, which gives insight into rural destitution not necessarily available in quantitative data.
Organization: Rural Assistance Center
Date: 02 / 2008
Journal: Rural Monitor
Rural Obesity: Strategies to Support Rural Counties in Building Capacity
Includes a description of the unique nature of obesity in rural America and recommendations on how the philanthropic community can better support rural communities’ efforts to develop successful obesity prevention policies and programs.
Organization: National Association of Counties
Date: 01 / 2008
Rural Rental Rehabilitation Helps Communities
Reports how rehabilitation was an essential part of preserving an aging rental property in Kansas.
Organization: Housing Assistance Council
Date: 2008
Journal: Rural Voices Volume: 13 Issue: 1
Rural Youth are More Likely to be Idle
Discusses how rural young adults are more likely than urban to not be in school and not be working.
Organization: Carsey Institute
Date: 02 / 2008
We’re Staying Put: Housing to Accommodate Consumer Preferences in an Aging Society
Discusses how rehabilitation can help rural residents remain in their homes as they age.
Organization: Housing Assistance Council
Date: 2008
Journal: Rural Voices Volume: 13 Issue: 1
Broadband Opportunities for Rural America
Provides a clearinghouse of information and resources on broadband opportunities for rural America.
Organization: Federal Communications Commission
CMHS Mental Health Services Locator
Provides comprehensive information about mental health services and resources for professionals, consumers and their families, and the public.
Organization: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Family Caregiving
Provides information on conferences, frequently asked questions, articles, news, resources, and more regarding caregiving.
Organization: U.S. Department of Agriculture
HUD Veteran Resource Center (HUDVET)
Created as a result of a partnership between National Veteran Service Organizations and HUD. Designed to increase knowledge of and participation in HUD homeless assistance programs and services for veterans and other individuals who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
Organization: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Internet Resources on Aging
Includes database on Internet resources, and links to more than 900 of the best sites for people age 50+.
Organization: AARP
Meth Project
Consists of a large-scale prevention program aimed at reducing first-time meth use through public service messaging, public policy, and community outreach. Includes state-specific campaigns to educate youth about the dangers of meth use.
Organization: Meth Project Foundation, Inc.
Native American Elderly Service Centers
A nationwide interactive map that shows the location of Native elderly services.
Organization: National Resource Center on Native American Aging
Rural Homelessness Capacity Building Project
Provides rural homeless organizations with the technical assistance, training, information, and financial resources they need to improve their ability to serve homeless populations.
Organization: Housing Assistance Council
Rural Transportation Planning Organizations (RPO) Search Engine
Search engine for Web sites to find information or documents related to rural transportation planning organizations (RPOs).
Organization: RuralTransportation.org
USA Counties
Features county-level data. Demographic, economic, and governmental data are presented for the purpose of multi-county comparisons or single county profiles.
Organization: U.S. Census Bureau
| Mar 11 - 13, 2008 | Home Town Competitiveness: A Come-Back/Give-Back Approach to Rural Community Building |
| Mar 12 - 15, 2008 | Piecing Together Tradition, Legislation, and Innovation: The New Patchwork Quilt for Rural Special Education |
| Mar 19, 2008 | Supporting Rural Family Caregivers |
| Mar 19 - 20, 2008 | Accessing and Sustaining Resources for Community & Faith-Based Organizations |
| Mar 20, 2008 | Spring Into Quality Symposium for Rural Health Care Providers |
| Mar 25 - 26, 2008 | 7th Annual Migrant and Immigrant Health Conference: Shifting Perspectives in Migrant Farmwork |
| Mar 26, 2008 | Title I Funding Formula Issues Affecting Rural Districts |
| Mar 26 - 30, 2008 | 2008 NCOA-ASA Aging in America Conference |
| Apr 1 - 2, 2008 | Accessing and Sustaining Resources for Community & Faith-Based Organizations |
| Apr 6 - 9, 2008 | 2008 Home Care & Hospice March on Washington and Legal Symposium |
| Apr 14 - 16, 2008 | 6th Annual Oklahoma Rural Hospital Conference - Moving Oklahoma Forward |
| Apr 16, 2008 | Living With Grief: Children and Adolescents |
| Apr 17, 2008 | 4th Annual New England Small Rural Hospital Performance Improvement Summit |
| Apr 20 - 24, 2008 | 35th Annual Training Conference: Head Start: The Nation's Pride |
| Apr 23 - 25, 2008 | SCRHA Annual Conference |
| Apr 30 - May 2, 2008 | 2008 Annual Meeting - Shaping the Future through Leadership and Advocacy! |
| May 2 - 4, 2008 | 1st Annual ACF "First Hand" Educational Tour |
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