New Grant Opportunities for 2025!
Focus on health equity in Vaccines and pharmacy care
KPhA is excited to announce an open call for two new grant-funded initiatives starting in 2025. As a part of our organization's focus on the promotion of quality and rational public health, KPhA will be working with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to launch two programs focused on keeping communities healthy. Check them both out and let us know if you are interested by December 7th!
KPhA will host a quick overview of these grant opportunities, upcoming CPESN contracts, and other clinical services on December 3rd from 1-1:30pm - we'll go through a short presentation, then hang around to answer any and all questions you have about these projects and more
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December 3rd 1-1:30pm
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Vaccine Gap Closure Project
Impact vaccination rates in your community with a focus on health equity! This grant will pay pharmacies to evaluate patients for vaccinations needed as well as for follow up counseling encounters to address vaccine hesitancy. The project will run approximately Jan-June 2025 and pharmacies can be paid up to $8,750 for their work. 15 pharmacies will be selected and participating pharmacies will be required to participate in CPESN KS and CPESN Health Equity.
Training Pharmacy Technicians as Certified Community Health Workers
Pharmacy technicians are uniquely positioned to serve the people in their community as community health workers (CHWs) due to their healthcare expertise, accessibility, and cost-effective training. Their knowledge of medications, the insurance system, and existing relationships with their patients sets them up to play a key role in public health initiatives such as screening and referral for chronic diseases. By providing these individuals with training in how to assess resources, navigate assistance, and make connections in their community, they will be able to serve as effective liaisons between their patients and the services they need to improve health outcomes.
KPhA and KDHE will work with 10 pharmacies to pay for the course and training time for a pharmacy technician to become certified as a Community Health Worker. To ensure the pharmacy technician CHW is able to make an impact in their community, the pharmacy will engage with a bi-directional e-referral system to make effective connections for their patients.
If either of these options sound good, make sure you let us know you're interested soon! Selections for both projects will be made after December 7th and sites will be notified by December 19th.
If you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out to KPhA's Director of Practice Development Amanda Applegate at amanda@ksrx.org.
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