The Health Resources and Services Administration, DHHS, in April 2004 announced grants totaling $3.1 million to encourage greater coordination of services and more partnerships in delivering health care in rural communities. The Frontier Education Center was among the recipients and received just under $200,000 for the first year of a three-year program to provide direct mental health and substance abuse services to residents of a 900 square mile service area in north central New Mexico.

Commenting on the overall grant, then HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said, "By building rural health partnerships, health care professionals will be better able to reach their skills and services into the most isolated parts of the nation, where the need is great and resources often are scarce."

For more information about the Frontier Education Center project, see Frontier Education Center Grant Abstract.

For more information about the HRSA grants, see http://newsroom.hrsa.gov
Archived 4/2/07

"Population 1: the town that's been reclaimed by the prairie," by Paul Harris, The Observer, November 20, 2005. Archived 11/13/07

"Sweeping Out the Plains," the first of a four-part series by Jack Coffman and George Anthan published in the Kansas City Star. Archived 11/13/07

"Unsettling Times: See a Dentist," by MIKE STARK, Billings Gazette Staff, June 6, 2005. Archived 11/13/07

Frontier Senators Restore Rural Health Funds, March 2005. Archived 11/13/07

Nebraskan Ted Kooser Appointed Poet Laureate of the US
Ted Kooser, described as a poet for rural America, was selected by Librarian of Congress James Billington as US Poet Laureate in October 2004. Archived 11/13/07

"Hope and Innovation in Rural Health Care," Tom Rowley, Rural Policy Research Institute Fellow, August 20, 2004. Archived 11/13/07

"America's Health Care Experiment - Taos County Cooperative Healthcare Association," Enchantment, January 2004. Archived 11/13/07

"Rural Health Insurance Cooperative,"a proposal by Bob Crittenden, July, 1998. Archived 11/13/07

"A Century of Culture Clash: The Enduring America Frontier"
Op Ed by Carol Miller, Executive Director, Frontier Education Center. Archived 11/13/07

"New Frontier"
An article published in the Albuquerque Journal, October 16, 2003, based on Carol Miller's Op Ed. Archived 11/13/07

"Life On Frontier Is Rough: Policies Make it Tougher," by Tom Rowley, RUPRI Fellow Archived 11/13/07