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Specialty Dental Clinic Grant Program

State Treasurer's Office · 49742

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About this opportunity

On June 30, 2022, the Specialty Dental Clinic Grant Program (Dental Program) was chaptered into law through the annual Budget Act of 2022 (Section 47, Chapter 45, Statutes of 2022), authorizing the California Health Facilities Financing Authority, using an appropriation of $25 million, to provide grants to eligible entities. On June 27, 2023, the Dental Program was allocated an additional $25 million through the passing of the annual Budget Act of 2023 (Section 2.00, Chapter 12, Statues of 2023), bringing the cumulative amount to $50 million in total available funding for the Dental Program. The Dental Program aims to support special health care needs populations by increasing timely access, reducing geographic shortages, increasing equity, and supporting quality of care, while also encouraging prevention services, early intervention, behavior support service and intervention, provider education, and community outreach activities that bring care to community sites. Eligible applicants include, but are not limited to, primary care clinics, specialty clinics, community clinics, free clinics, surgical clinics, acute care hospitals, intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled, special hospitals, providers that are licensed with the medical or dental board of California, and dental colleges. Eligible applicants must be enrolled and certified as a provider with the Medi-Cal program. The complete application is available online and there is $47,500,000.00 available in funding. Please note that no grant may exceed $5 million per individual grantee. A link to the online application is located on the Specialty Dental Clinic Grant Program page of CHFFA's website which is also linked on the Grant Portal page. The deadline to apply for the first funding round is TBD

Funding geography: Not specified — review source. A funder’s address does not establish eligibility.

Funding instrument: Grant. Issuing jurisdiction: California. This is not a geographic eligibility determination.