The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response announced Friday that $1.7 million has been awarded the CNMI to strengthen the Medical Reserve Corps network, focusing on emergency preparedness, response, and health equity needs. <\/p>\n
Funding for the first-ever MRC State, Territory and Tribal Nations, Representative Organizations for Next Generation, or MRC-STTRONG, grant program is from the American Rescue Plan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. will use the funds to expand community partnerships with a focus on addressing health disparities, access and functional needs, and other at-risk populations. CHCC will engage partners and communities on assessments, outreach, recruitment and volunteer planning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMRC units are a force multiplier for local emergency responses,\u201d said assistant secretary for Preparedness and Response Dawn O\u2019Connell. \u201cThe ARP-funded awards announced [Friday] will bolster response efforts in communities across the nation, building on the invaluable role that the MRC played during our fight against COVID-19.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The competitive grant was one of 33 awarded by ASPR through the MRC-STTRONG grant program. In March 2023, ASPR first\u00a0announced\u00a0$50 million in American Rescue Plan funding available for states, territories, tribes, public\/private partnerships, and other public entities to expand their MRC network.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The MRC is a national network of 300,000 volunteers organized into approximately 750 local community-based groups committed to improving local emergency response capabilities, reducing vulnerabilities, and building community preparedness and resilience.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
MRC units organize and use local volunteers who donate their time and expertise to prepare for and respond to emergencies and to support steady-state preparedness initiatives.\u202fThey have supported emergency shelter operations and medical care during extreme weather events, organized vaccine clinics and testing sites during the COVID-19 response, provided medical support during large public gatherings, and much more.\u202fMRC volunteers also promote community preparedness to improve everyday health and reduce potential public health risks and vulnerabilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For more information about MRC, including joining a local MRC unit, visit\u00a0aspr.hhs.gov\/MRC.\u00a0(PR)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response announced Friday that $1.7 million has been awarded…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":393602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[6807,257],"class_list":["post-393601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-medical-reserve-corps","tag-nmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}