EMS Grants News and Articles

• Public Safety Foundation Network launches to support work of first responder agencies

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  The member-based initiative unites police, fire and EMS foundations to address resource gaps

• Ore. FD awarded $2.5M for new response program for low-risk medical calls

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  Under the new program, engines, trucks and ambulances will no longer be sent to low-risk medical calls in downtown Portland and outer Southeast Portland

• Ga. county leaders approve mental health response teams for non-emergency 911

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  Each Athens-Clarke Alternative Response Team will include an EMT, a licensed clinician and a peer specialist

• On-demand webinar: Securing grant funding in EMS

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  Find out the latest on how your agency can access ARP and other funding opportunities, as well as guidance around proposals, tactics and strategies

• N.C. county adding paramedics, building $18 million emergency services center

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  More than half the funding for the Sampson County facility project will come from grants

• Calif. city approves $1.2M contract for mobile mental health response services

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  Newport Beach's new program is based on the Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets (CAHOOTS) program that has been successful in Eugene, Ore.

• N.Y. awarded $45M in grant funding to improve emergency communications

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  State grant funding has been awarded to counties statewide and the city of New York for improving communications operability

• Kan. EMS receives nearly $200K grant for recruitment and training

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  Funds will be used to help recruit new responders and train current providers on how best to respond to the twin crisis of substance misuse and mental health emergencies

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