Our Services
Consultation
Translating your strategic priorities into concrete, actionable steps in your funding plan can feel daunting, and many centers struggle to assess the fittedness of individual funding opportunities for their unique organization. LKA helps our clients hone their focus by providing strategic research and consultation. Whether your center needs support to identify grant funding opportunities that are aligned with your mission and goals, or you are working to assess your likelihood of success with competitive applications, our team provides expert assistance.
We actively serve over 80 clients, primarily across the southeastern United States. Our consulting clients include:
- Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)
- State Primary Care Associations (PCAs)
- Local health centers and community-based clinics seeking to upgrade to new FQHC status or FQHC Look-a-Like (FQHC LAL) status
Grant Writing and Research
LKA understands the unique challenges that exist in the current funding landscape. We are here to assist our clients in researching and writing competitive grant applications to ensure a solid foundation of funding to support organizational goals. We look forward to sharing our expertise with the following funding streams, competing/non-competing continuation funding opportunities, and other applications:
HRSA Section 330 FQHC Applications:
- Service Area Competition (SAC)
- Non-Competing Continuation (NCC)
- Budget Period Progress Report (BPR)
- New Access Point (NAP)
- Supplemental Funding and Service Expansion
- Capital Funding / Capital Improvement Projects
- Changes in Scope (CIS)
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP):
- Part B
- Part C
- Part D
- Part F
- Capacity Development Program
- Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA)
Other Funding Streams:
- HRSA Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)
- HRSA Black Lung Clinics
- HHS OPA Title X Family Planning Services
- USDA Distance Learning and Telemedicine
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) Healthy Start
- State Grants
- Major Foundation Grants
Funding Focus Areas:
- Behavioral Health
- Oral Health and Dental
- HIV Prevention and Treatment
- Maternal Health
- School-Based Services
- Early Childhood Development
- Telehealth and IT Enhancement
- Facility Expansion and Renovation
- Mobile Units
- Emergency Preparedness
- Chronic Disease Management
- Nutrition and Lifestyle Management
Needs Assessments
LKA brings decades of experience providing our clients with the data needed to identify unmet community needs, inform strategic growth, and meet federal regulatory compliance standards for needs assessments. Whether you are planning a new health center site, expanding your services, considering a new service area, or preparing for a federal operational site visit or competitive application, LKA can develop a targeted needs assessment package that meets your center’s needs.
Services include:
- Full needs assessment packages, including a written needs assessment narrative and a virtual presentation
- Needs assessment packages to satisfy HRSA requirements as assessed via Operational Site Visits
- Written needs assessment narratives for specific grant funding opportunities
- Service area development, including identification of high-need ZCTAs to inform site and/or service expansion
- Needs assessment data collection to identify specific community needs, inform strategic planning, and provide direction for grant research
- Other needs assessment services related to unique organizational needs