Delaware RHTP — School-Based Health Center Expansion (HSS26064)

HSS26064 (School-Based Health Center Expansion Initiative — SBHCEI) competitively awards funding to support operation of new school-based health centers in rural Delaware schools. The $195,000 Year 1 budget reflects a targeted, likely single-award investment focused on establishing a new SBHC in an underserved rural school community in Kent or Sussex County.

School-based health centers are a proven model for reaching rural children and adolescents who face barriers to primary care access — transportation challenges, lack of insurance, and parental work schedules that make clinic visits difficult. Delaware's rural schools in Sussex County in particular face high rates of childhood poverty and limited access to primary care for enrolled students.

Expected eligible applicant types for operating a school-based health center include school districts (lead applicant or co-applicant); FQHCs and FQHC look-alikes operating school-based health programs; nonprofit health organizations with existing SBHC operations; local health departments; and community health organizations with school health programming. SBHCs typically involve a sponsoring health organization that provides clinical staffing and oversight, with a partnering school district providing the facility.

Download the full RFP (HSS26064-SBHCEI) to confirm verbatim eligibility language and whether a school district or clinical sponsor should be the lead applicant.