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Family Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Training Programs

Base Funding Webinar

Presented by: Rachael Gastelum

www.calreach.oshpd.ca.gov to apply

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WELCOME EVERYONE!

Thank you for joining us today

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Estimated $2.7 million is available to approved Family Nurse Practitioner and accredited Physician Assistant Training Programs For Base funding via a grant from the California Endowmentand state funding. A Special Programs application is not beingreleased this year. Registration: Open nowRFA release: September 1, 2015RFA deadline: October 1, 20154 weeks total time to complete and submit your application

Maximum funding requested is based on student enrollment:• Up to 50 students – Maximum $80,000• Up to 75 students – Maximum $115,000• Up to 100 students – Maximum $150,000• 101 or more students – Maximum $185,000

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Getting Started

If you’re a new applicant register nowIf you’re a returning applicant that’s forgotten their password ask to have your password reset now – don’t wait.

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Enter in all required fields. Click SAVE, if there are no errors on the page you will receive a “Registration complete” message, SB staff must approve all users prior to moving forward.You may expect a maximum 24 hr turnaround time for approval

Choose SongBrown only

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Enter username and password to begin

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Click to begin Application

• 1 application available for Base funding

• Messages regarding your application will be here

• The number of applications you have started

• Show’s where in the process your app is

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Click Apply Now

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This is your opportunity to copy forward select data from your 2014 Base funding application to your 2015 application. Copied forward information includes Program Information, Contractor Information, Graduates Information, and Training in areas of Unmet Need. It is the applicants responsibility to ensure all information copies forward correctly and that it is up to date when submitted.

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This is your application number

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A complete application

will contain all of these forms

Pay attention to icons – they will letYou know what pages have been completedand what pages have errors

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Learn to love it!

Must complete all boxes with an *

Maximum allotted characters

Tips and Tricks

To add additional pages Will show all errors

found on app

Hover text, provides clarifying information

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More Tips and Tricks

When the information has been saved successfully

Error message will display exactly what is wrong with the page

You will receive this message ifyou try and navigate away from the page you are on without hitting SAVEfirst. You must click CANCEL to clear the warning and then SAVE. If you click OKfirst you will lose whatever informationyou’ve already input.

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1. Statistics page – Questions regarding the PANCE 1st time pass rateand the average PANCE aggregate pass rate have been removed;

2. Program Strategies – A new question, describe the program’s approach andassociated activities you use to encourage graduates to practice in areas ofunmet need.

3. Program Strategies – New evaluation criteria tied to the question, explain the program strategies developed to identify, recruit and admit trainees who possess characteristics that would suggest a predisposition to practice in areas of unmet priority need and express commitment to serve in those areas;

4. URM Table – current students must be broken out by student year rather thanprovided as an aggregate number. Evaluation criteria added as well

5. Training in areas of unmet need – removed the question, site added within thelast year from Section 1-3;

6. New Training in areas of unmet need page7. Team Training and Learning Delivery Models – New evaluation criteria tied to

this question but no change to the overall points;8. Program Structure – New evaluation criteria tied to the question, explain how

the program structures its training to encourage graduates to practice as ahealth care team that includes FM physicians as well as other healthprofessionals and;

9. Program Structure – New evaluation criteria tied to the question, how does yourprogram encourage students to help recruit and mentor underrepresented minoritiesand/or underrepresented groups?

New items for the 2015 RFA

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Please take the time to correctly fill out this form,incorrect information may delay full execution ofyour contract

1. Make sure the contract organization is correct

2. Contracts Officer must be the post award officer not the pre-award grants officer

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You must fill out a separate page for each graduate you input. On this page you have the following five choices:1) If you are a new program and have no graduates to report for the period requested you click this check box and hit SAVE;2) If you have graduates to report you will start with Section 1, click the SAVE button and use the add/edit feature to find the right practice site name, hit SAVE again and the address will populate for you;3) If you have a graduate not practicing in California or with out a practice location you enter them using Section 2. Click unknown and provide the reason using the dropdown;4) If you can’t locate your practice site using Section 1, type in the name and address in Section 3; and5) If the practice site is a private medical office and can’t be located using Section 1, type in the name and address here.

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5Alert- for returning applicants the ddl has been eliminated in Section 1, navigating this new feature may take you awhile.

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You must fill out a separate page for each training site you input. • On this page you start with saving

the page.• Click the SAVE button and use the

add/edit feature to search for the right training site name, hit insert address and the address will populate for you, save the page and click add to move on;

• If the training site your looking for isn’t in Section 1, answer the question posed here and a text box will drop down for your use.

• Remember to hit save and add to move onto the next training site.

 

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Starting this year the grant agreements for all awards will be written within the CalREACH system. It is very important you pay attention to grammar and spelling when filling out the Budget pages within your application.All information provided in your budget pages (personnel, operating expenses, major equipment, and other costs) will copy into the grant agreement as presented. If staff comes across grammar and spelling issues along with incorrect information we will have to push your application back to you to be fixed before the system can general your grant agreement. Please take the time to proof your work before you submit your applications, it may save you time and work later on.

Budget Forms and your Grant Agreement

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Required Attachments

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Click the back button to return to the Application Menu

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To submit the RFA click here

An application is not consideredsubmitted until the applicationstatus shows “submitted”

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Enter the last 3 digits of your application number here

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Click here to view, edit

application

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Questions? Comments? Concerns?