RFO /RFP/ RFQ /RFA

ACE 2.0 RFA FAQs 

ACE 2.0 RFA Webinar Slides (2026-2028)

In 2011, the 82nd Texas Legislature created the Emergency and Trauma Care Education Partnership Program (ETEP) to address the state’s need for physicians and registered nurses with training in emergency and trauma care. ETEP provides funding support for partnerships between graduate medical education programs and hospitals (as defined in Appendix A, RFA Definitions) in emergency and trauma care to increase training opportunities in the medical specialty/subspecialty areas of emergency medicine (EM), pediatric emergency medicine (PEM), and surgical critical care (SCC).

The Emergency and Trauma Care Education Partnership Program (ETEP) was established to address the state’s need for physicians and registered nurses with training in emergency and trauma care. ETEP provides funding support for partnerships between hospitals and graduate professional nursing programs (as defined in Appendix A, RFA Definitions) to increase the education and training experiences in emergency and trauma care for registered nurses pursuing graduate-level education. The program provides similar support for partnerships between hospitals and graduate medical education programs in emergency and trauma care.

Perkins Budget Planning Guide.

SSAP 3.0 RFA Webinar/Informational Powerpoint Slides

The Texas Statewide Preceptorship Program (SPP) provides funding to support preceptorship experiences in primary care specialties: family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics and pediatric subspecialties. 

The ACE Grant Program provides grant funding to eligible nonprofit Applicants that seek to develop, support, or expand workforce intermediary and job training programs for Veterans and low-income students to enter careers in high-demand and/or higher earning occupations.

The ACE Grant Program provides grant funding to eligible nonprofit Applicants that seek to develop, support, or expand workforce intermediary and job training programs for Veterans and low-income students to enter careers in high-demand and/or higher earning occupations.

The goal of the SSAP 3.0 Grants is to support students’ persistence and completion of credentials of value leading to successful career and labor market outcomes in Texas.

The goal of the SSAP 3.0 Grant program is to support students’ persistence and completion of credentials of value leading to successful career and labor market outcomes in Texas.

The goal of the Texas Reskilling and Upskilling through Education (TRUE) Grant Program is to support public higher education institutions to create, redesign and expand short-term workforce education and training programs in high-demand occupations.

The Nursing Innovation Grant Program – Rider 52 is established for the purpose of supporting innovation in nursing education programs. Funding will be used to support the development of innovative prelicensure nursing education programs, evaluation of these and other innovative nursing programs, and research on methods to increase the state’s nursing workforce pipeline.

TIME Grants are established to support public lower-division higher education institutions and their regional partners to implement new or expand existing short duration career and technical education (CTE) programs in high-demand and higher-earning occupations that result in a credential of value for students, including dual credit and certificates.

Nursing Shortage Reduction Program (NSRP) was established to address the ongoing critical shortage of registered nurses in Texas. The program provides financial support to eligible Texas institutions of higher education with professional nursing programs approved by the Texas Board of Nursing. NSRP funds initiatives that increase the enrollment, retention, and graduation of registered nursing students and strengthen the state’s nursing workforce capacity.

The Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program will provide funding to support accredited forensic psychiatry fellowship training programs in Texas. Eligible Applicants are health-related institutions that sponsor accredited psychiatry fellowship programs.

The Autism Grant Program (AGP) supports eligible Applicants at autism research centers at Texas public, private or independent institutions of higher education that currently provide evidence-based behavioral services and training to improve and expand the treatment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).