Advanced Nursing Education Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship (ANE-NPRF) Program | HRSA 23 009

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The Advanced Nursing Education Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship (ANE-NPRF) Program is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), intended to help new Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) transition into effective primary care practice. The program funds the establishment, expansion, and/or enhancement of community-based Nurse Practitioner (NP) residency and fellowship programs that are already accredited or actively working toward accreditation. The core idea is to strengthen structured postgraduate training so newly graduated APRNs build real-world clinical confidence and competence faster, especially in settings where patients often have complex medical and social needs.

A major emphasis of this opportunity is integrating behavioral health and/or maternal health into primary care training environments. Supported trainees can include primary care NPs (adult, family, adult-gerontology, pediatric, and women’s health), psychiatric/mental health NPs, and Certified Nurse Midwives (CNMs). The expectation is that these clinicians are trained in community-based settings where primary care is delivered alongside behavioral health and maternal health services, reflecting how care is increasingly provided in underserved communities. The grant prioritizes preparing providers to manage co-morbidities, chronic conditions, and layered social drivers of health, rather than focusing only on narrow clinical skill development.

The program’s goals center on building and improving residency infrastructure and increasing the supply of new clinicians who will serve patients in rural, urban, and tribal underserved areas. First, it aims to support the expansion or enhancement of primary care NP residency programs, strengthening the capacity of existing programs or helping sites improve and scale what they already do. Second, it seeks to increase the number of newly trained primary care, behavioral health, and maternal health providers who go on to work in underserved community-based settings, directly addressing workforce gaps and access problems. Third, it promotes the intentional integration of behavioral health and maternal health into primary care residency training so that new providers are better prepared for team-based, whole-person care.

The stated objectives explain how grantees are expected to reach those goals. Funded projects are meant to support new primary care providers through establishing, expanding, or enhancing NP residency programs specifically in community-based environments. The training model should include both didactic and clinical components designed to boost clinical competency and readiness for practice, with an explicit focus on serving communities facing complex chronic disease burdens and significant social needs. Programs are also expected to improve access by placing residency completers into rural, urban, and tribal underserved practice settings, meaning the residency is not just a training experience but a pipeline into hard-to-fill community roles.

Another key expectation is the development and strengthening of academic-practice partnerships. These partnerships are meant to create integrated learning opportunities across primary care, behavioral health, and maternal health domains, aligning training with real service delivery. HRSA also signals that partnerships should advance health equity, improve workforce diversity so providers better reflect and understand the communities they serve, and address clinician wellness and resiliency, recognizing that retention and burnout are central workforce issues in underserved care systems.

In terms of basic opportunity details, this funding announcement is titled “Advanced Nursing Education Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship (ANE-NPRF) Program,” listed as HRSA-23-009 under CFDA 93.247. It is a grant mechanism under the health funding activity category. The posting indicates an expected 43 awards, with the original application closing date of April 11, 2023, and a creation date of February 10, 2023. Eligibility is listed broadly as “Others,” with additional eligibility clarification referenced in the full announcement. The award ceiling is shown as 0 in the provided data, which typically signals applicants must refer to the full notice for actual funding limits or that ceilings vary by project structure.

• The Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Advanced Nursing Education Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship (ANE-NPRF) Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.247.
• This funding opportunity was created on Feb 10, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 11, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 43 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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