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Evaluator for HRSA rural health and Healthy Start applications
HRSA scores every application on how it will measure and report its results, and the data questions reach well beyond the section with evaluation in its name. Rural networks and community consortia rarely have an evaluator on staff. We can be yours. Our experience is extensive in health care and in pregnancy and postpartum services, the ground Healthy Start covers.
What HRSA’s announcements score
- Rural Communities Opioid Response Program, Impact (HRSA-26-037): “Performance reporting and evaluation” carries 20 of 100 points, including “your capacity to gather, manage, and use data to report on required performance measures, together with network partners.” Awards up to $750,000 a year for four years.
- Rural Health Network Advancement Program (HRSA-26-082): 10 points for a program self-assessment (questions, methods, data sources, timeline) and performance measurement. Awards up to $500,000 a year for four years.
- Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program (HRSA-25-038): “Evaluation measures” carries 10 points. Awards up to $250,000 to $300,000 a year for four years.
- Healthy Start (HRSA-24-033): “Evaluative measures” carries 10 points and asks for a program evaluation plan covering inputs, key processes and expected outcomes. Awards up to $1.1 million a year for five years.
- In each of these, the need, response, impact and capability sections also ask for data and outcomes, so the evaluation thinking runs through most of the score.
Facts on this page were checked against the official sources on September 20, 2026. Rules change; rely on the official announcement or regulation linked here, not on this summary.
Where we fit
We write the measurement and evaluation content with you before the deadline and carry it out after the award.
- The evaluation plan and logic model, and the needs statement built on real data
- Performance measures your network partners can actually collect and share
- Data management across several organizations, which is where network grants succeed or fail
- Focus groups, interviews and surveys with patients, providers and partners
- Quantitative analysis and expert data visualization for HRSA reports and your own board
- Final reporting in multiple formats: full report, executive summary, slide deck, one-page brief or dashboard
Mixed methods is our default design: qualitative and quantitative data, collected together and reported as one story.
Timing
As of September 20, 2026, the FY2026 rounds of all four programs have closed. grants.gov lists FY2027 forecasts, with no announcement text or deadlines yet, for the Rural Health Network Development Program (HRSA-27-051, about 23 awards) and for three community rounds of the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program: Overdose Response (HRSA-27-040, about 35 awards), Community Systems Development (HRSA-27-042) and Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health (HRSA-27-043). HRSA’s rural health grants page shows what is current. Program names change from year to year, so check the number as well as the title.
The last rural opioid round gave applicants about five weeks. Our free evaluation plan lets you start before the announcement posts.
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