Rural Emergency Medical Services Training
Grant Opportunity Analysis
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is offering a discretionary federal grant to support rural emergency medical services training. The program recruits and trains EMS personnel to provide immediate emergency care and rapid hospital transport in rural communities. It focuses on life-saving interventions such as opioid overdose reversal, buprenorphine initiation, CPR, and oxygen administration, and eligibility is limited by statute to certain local or Tribal government EMS agencies and qualifying tax-exempt EMS agencies. The opportunity has no cost-sharing requirement and is estimated to support about 45 awards with $13.5 million in total program funding; the grant contact is Angela Caldwell at REMS-Training@samhsa.hhs.gov or 240-276-2586.
Eligible Applicants
Eligibility is statutorily limited to emergency medical services agencies operated by local or Tribal government (including fire-based and non-fire based) or an emergency medical services agency that is described in section 501(c) of title 26 and exempt from tax under section 501(a) of title 26.