Innovative Coordinated Access and Mobility Grants Program - 2016 NOFO

Post Date

March 29th 2016

Application Due Date

May 31st 2016

Funding Opportunity Number

FTA-2015-012-TPM-RTW

CFDA Number(s)

20.514

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Transportation

Eligibility Categories

State Governments
County Governments
City or Township Governments
Federally Recognized Native American Tribal Governments
Other

Eligible proposers and eventual grant applicants under this initiative must be States, Tribes, and Designated or Direct Recipients for funds under 49 U.S.C. 5307, 5310 or 5311. Applicants must serve as the lead agency of a local consortium that includes stakeholders from the transportation, healthcare, human service or other sectors. Members of this consortium are eligible as subrecipients. Applicants must demonstrate that the proposed project was planned through an inclusive process with the involvement of the transportation, healthcare and human service industries.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $5300000

• Award Range:

  $None - $None

Grant Description

The goal of the competitive R2W Demonstration Grants is to find and test promising, replicable public transportation healthcare access solutions that support the following Rides to Wellness goals: increased access to care, improved health outcomes and reduced healthcare costs. To support these goals, the R2W Demonstration Grants will: 1. Develop replicable, innovative, sustainable solutions to healthcare access challenges; 2. Foster local partnerships between health, transportation, home and community-based services and other sectors to collaboratively develop and support solutions that increase healthcare access; and 3. Demonstrate the impacts of transportation solutions on improved access to healthcare and health outcomes and reduced costs to the healthcare and transportation sectors.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Transportation

• Office:

  DOT/Federal Transit Administration

• Agency Contact:

  Danielle Nelson
  Office of Program Management
  202-366-2160

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Danielle Nelson

• Agency Email Address:

  Danielle.Nelson@dot.gov

• More Information:

  Rides to Wellness Demonstration and Innovative Coordinated Access and Mobility Grants program - 2016 NOFO