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Refugee Health Promotion Refugee Support Services Set-Aside: FY 2024 Funding – Second Allocation

Dear Colleague Letter 24-13

Refugee Health Promotion Refugee Support Services Set-Aside: FY 2024 Funding — Second Allocation

May 6, 2024
 

Dear Colleague:

ORR has issued a second Refugee Health Promotion (RHP) funding award to states1 as a “set-aside” within the FY 20242 Refugee Support Services (RSS) formula Refugee and Entrant Assistance (REA) allocation. This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) explains ORR’s method of determining the second RHP FY 2024 allocation and details the funding amounts. Program goals, services, eligible populations, and requirements are described in ORR Policy Letter (PL)20-05, Refugee Health Promotion Program Transitions to Refugee Support Services Set-Aside Program and ORRPL 22-06, Refugee Mental Health Initiative within the Refugee Health Promotion Program.

Qualification for FY 2024 Allocations

FY 2024 is the qualifying first year of a four-year qualification period, ending September 30, 2027, for the RHP program. ORR extended this RHP qualification period to four years to align with the other RSS set-aside programs’ current qualification period ending September 30, 2027. States that had 50 or more ORR-eligible individuals who arrived/were served in FY 2021 and FY 2022 (combined), as shown below, qualified for funding. States that qualified for FY 2024 funding will remain eligible to receive RHP set-aside funding, without needing to requalify, for the subsequent three years. 

Basis for Funding

The FY 2024 allocations to states are based on the number of ORR-eligible individuals who arrived/were served in FY 2021 and FY 2022 (combined), as reported in the ORR-5 and verified against a number of federal sources in the ORR Refugee Arrivals Data System (RADS). ORR used this two-year lookback period to determine RSS allocations, providing a level of funding stability in response to the variance in arrivals during the relevant time period.

FY 2024 Allocations Chart

The chart below documents the number of eligible individuals who arrived/were served in each state in FY 2021 and FY 2022 and the state’s corresponding first and second FY 2024 funding allocations for the RHP program. As required under ORR regulation 45 C.F.R. §400.210, these funds must be obligated by September 30, 2025, and liquidated by September 30, 2026.

 

FY 2024 RHP Allocation by State

StateTotal Arrived/Served 
FY 2021 & FY 2022		First Allocation
(DCL 24-08)		Second
Allocation		Total Funding
Alabama112$100,000$100,000$200,000
Alaska51$100,000$100,000$200,000
Arizona4,023$819,570$819,570$1,639,140
Arkansas172$100,000$100,000$200,000
California15,120$1,000,000$1,000,000$2,000,000
Colorado2,613$532,323$532,323$1,064,646
Connecticut498$125,000$125,000$250,000
Delaware82 $100,000 $100,000$200,000
District of Columbia222$100,000$100,000$200,000
Florida144,321$2,000,000$2,000,000$4,000,000
Georgia2,959 $602,811 $602,811$1,205,622
Idaho835$170,107$170,107$340,214
Illinois1,848$376,477$376,477$752,954
Indiana1,179 $240,187 $240,187$480,374
Iowa980$199,647$199,647$399,294
Kansas1,179 $240,187 $240,187$480,374
Kentucky11,036 $1,000,000 $1,000,000$2,000,000
Louisiana631$150,000$150,000$300,000
Maine314 $125,000 $125,000$250,000
Maryland4,399$896,168$896,169$1,792,337
Massachusetts2,466 $502,376 $502,376$1,004,752
Michigan2,809 $572,253 $572,253$1,144,506
Minnesota1,719 $350,197 $350,197$700,394
Missouri1,757$357,938$357,938$715,876
Montana107 $100,000 $100,000$200,000
Nebraska2,202$448,594$448,594$897,188
Nevada3,936 $801,847 $801,847$1,603,694
New Hampshire399 $125,000 $125,000$250,000
New Jersey5,092 $1,000,000 $1,000,000$2,000,000
New Mexico594$150,000$150,000$300,000
New York4,122 $839,739 $839,739$1,679,478
North Carolina2,087 $425,166 $425,166$850,332
North Dakota260 $100,000 $100,000$200,000
Ohio1,834$373,625$373,625$747,250
Oklahoma498$125,000$125,000$250,000
Oregon743 $151,365 $151,365$302,730
Pennsylvania2,415$491,987$491,987$983,974
Rhode Island450 $125,000 $125,000$250,000
South Carolina634 $150,000 $150,000$300,000
South Dakota237 $100,000 $100,000$200,000
Tennessee2,153$438,612$438,612$877,224
Texas31,754$1,500,000$1,500,000$3,000,000
Utah991 $201,888 $201,888$403,776
Vermont172 $100,000 $100,000$200,000
Virginia3,376 $687,763 $687,763$1,375,526
Washington3,173 $646,407 $646,407$1,292,814
Wisconsin1,189 $242,225 $242,225$484,450
Total269,854$20,084,459$20,084,460$40,168,919

 

Explanation of Allocations

FY 2024 allocations fall into the following three tiers.

  1. A maximum funding tier for states that had 5,000 or more eligible individuals arrived/were served, which was further broken down to:
    1. 50,000 or more eligible individuals ($2,000,000)
    2. 20,000-49,999 eligible individuals ($1,500,000)
    3. 5,000-19,999 eligible individuals ($1,000,000)
  2. A per capita funding tier for states that had between 700 — 4,999 eligible individuals arrived/were served; and
  3. A lower funding tier for states that had between 50 — 699 eligible individuals arrived/were served, which was further broken down to:
    1. 500-699 eligible individuals ($150,000)
    2. 300-499 eligible individuals ($125,000)
    3. 50-299 eligible individuals ($100,000)

The goal of the tiered system is to ensure states with similar numbers of ORR-eligible individuals arrived/served receive comparable funding, and states with lower arrived/served numbers have sufficient funding for program sustainability. 

Please note that even though the allocation reflected is based on ORR-eligible individuals arrived/served for FY 2021 and FY 2022, the service population includes all arrivals for the past five-year period.

Resources

Please direct any questions about this DCL or the RHP program to your ORR Division of Refugee Health (DRH) Health Liaison. We also encourage you to use ORR’s Technical Assistance provider(s) for additional resources on serving ORR-eligible populations. 

 

Sincerely,

Kenneth Tota
Director, Refugee Program
Office of Refugee Resettlement

 

Footnotes

1 “States” throughout this DCL refers to states and replacement designees (RDs).

2 October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.