The Heartland Conference on Health Equity and Patient-Centered Care (Heartland)will offer registration, travel (if traveling 20 miles or greater), & hotel awards (as needed) to regional Community Health Workers (CHWs) to attend the 2024 Heartland Conference on Health Equity and Patient-Centered Care in Kansas City, KS from Wednesday, September 18th through Friday, September 20th. The scholarship is also available to Kansas Birth Equity Network (KBEN) members traveling from outside the Kansas City metro area to attend the Birth Equity Summit and Heartland conference at large.
This scholarship honors the important work of grassroots advocates who promote health, health equity, and patient-centered care in their communities. We want to bring your knowledge, expertise, and commitment to patients and the CHW field to the Heartland! Scholarship awardees will receive funding to pay for full registration to the pre-conference session (Sept 18th) and for all two days of the Heartland Conference (Sept 19th & 20th).
To be eligible for the scholarship, the applicant must:
- Be a Community Health Worker in the region, a volunteer advocate for patients or patient-centered care, or an out of town Birth Equity Summit attendee.
- Be over 18 years of age.
- Complete the full application.
- Submit a letter of support from a supervisor/volunteer coordinator of the applicant.
- (Note: This applies to both paid and volunteer positions.) If you do not have a supervisor, please contact Todd Moore at wtm911@gmail.com for further instruction.
- Birth Equity Summit affiliated applicants may submit a letter of support from KBEN. Please contact KBEN at kben@kumc.edu for a letter of support.
- Attend the pre-conference session on Sept 18th and BOTH DAYS of the Heartland Conference on September 19th and September 20th from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm*.
Scholarship Application Deadline: Friday, July 26, 2024
Supervisors will be notified of any scholarship recipient not in compliance with the requirements above for the duration of the conference.
*Times are subject to change, pending the arrangement of the final program.