Congratulations to colleagues in SHPS who recently received notification from the Health Resource and Service Administration that the Flint Health Careers Opportunity Program (FHCOP) has been funded for $345,050 for the first year of the project with an additional $733,122 recommended for second and third years of the project. 

Betty Velthouse and Suzanne Selig will serve as the lead investigators of this project which aims to “develop a more competitive applicant pool in order to increase diversity among health professionals. The primary goal of the project is to provide disadvantaged students from a broad range of educational levels (i.e., elementary, middle, high school, associate degree, undergraduate, and graduate program) with the academic and social skills required to successfully compete for admission, enroll, progress, and graduate from health professions programs.”