Refugee Health Promotion Refugee Support Services Set-Aside: FY 2025 Allocation

DCL 25-07

Current as of:

January 8, 2025
Revised January 14, 2025

Dear Colleague:

ORR will issue Refugee Health Promotion (RHP) funding to States and Replacement Designees funded to administer Refugee Support Services (RSS) as a “set-aside” within the fiscal year (FY) 20251 RSS formula Refugee and Entrant Assistance (REA) allocation. This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) explains ORR’s method of determining the RHP FY 2025 allocation and details the funding amounts, contingent on federal funds available.  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 (PDF) and ORR PL 22-06, Refugee Mental Health Initiative within the Refugee Health Promotion Program (PDF).

Qualification for FY 2025 Allocations

FY 2025 is the second year of a four-year qualification period for the RHP program, ending September 30, 2027. ORR extended this RHP qualification period from three to four years to align with the other RSS set-aside programs’ qualification period ending September 30, 2027. States and Replacement Designees that had 100 or more ORR-eligible individuals who arrived/were served in their state during FY 2022 and FY 2023, as shown below, qualified for funding.  States and Replacement Designees that qualified for funding this qualification period will remain eligible to receive RHP set-aside funding without needing to requalify for the subsequent two years. 

Basis for Funding

The FY 2025 allocations are based on the number of ORR-eligible individuals using a two-year lookback of eligible populations. ORR combines arrived/served data submitted in the ORR-5 report and matched against a number of federal sources for FY 2022 and FY 2023. Individuals are only counted once during this two-year lookback period. This includes initial arrival Refugees, Iraqi and Afghan Special Immigrants (SIVs), Victims of Human Trafficking (VOT), humanitarian parolees from Afghanistan (AHP), humanitarian parolees from Ukraine (UHP), Cuban and Haitian Entrants (CHE), and Asylees. ORR used this two-year lookback period to determine RSS allocations, providing a level of stability to maintain effective administration of the funds. 

FY 2025 Allocations Chart

The chart below documents the number of eligible individuals who arrived/were served in each state in FY 2022 and FY 2023 and the State or Replacement Designee’s corresponding funding allocation for the RHP program for FY 2025. As required under ORR regulation 45 C.F.R. §400.210, these funds must be obligated by September 30, 2026, and liquidated by September 30, 2027.

 

FY 2025 RHP Allocations by State

StateTotal Arrived/Served
FY 2022 & FY 2023		Allocation
Alabama730$250,000
Alaska890$250,000
Arizona11,298$1,241,812
Arkansas540$250,000
California27,410$2,000,000
Colorado8,835$971,144
Connecticut3,156$346,895
Delaware571$250,000
District of Columbia375$200,000
Florida258,246$4,000,000
Georgia9,888$1,086,830
Idaho2,543$300,000
Illinois12,803$1,407,272
Indiana3,315$364,316
Iowa3,420$375,949
Kansas3,088$339,458
Kentucky21,906$2,000,000
Louisiana1,318$275,000
Maine1,138$275,000
Maryland7,145$785,331
Massachusetts16,768$1,843,052
Michigan8,861$973,937
Minnesota6,152$676,166
Missouri5,195$571,032
Montana265$200,000
Nebraska6,408$704,295
Nevada7,555$830,378
New Hampshire810$250,000
New Jersey16,248$1,785,859
New Mexico1,951$300,000
New York20,873$2,000,000
North Carolina9,029$992,467
North Dakota720$250,000
Ohio7,226$794,216
Oklahoma3,150$346,253
Oregon4,681$514,461
Pennsylvania12,055$1,325,036
Rhode Island953$250,000
South Carolina1,744$300,000
South Dakota615$250,000
Tennessee5,589$614,357
Texas76,716$3,000,000
Utah3,706$407,330
Vermont676$250,000
Virginia9,585$1,053,489
Washington25,140$2,000,000
West Virginia151$150,000
Wisconsin3,627$398,665
Total635,064$40,000,000

 

Explanation of Allocations

FY 2025 allocations fall into the following three tiers:

  1. A maximum funding tier for states that had 20,000 or more eligible individuals arrived/served, which was further broken down to:
    1. 100,000 or more eligible individuals ($4,000,000)
    2. 50,000—99,999 eligible individuals ($3,000,000)
    3. 20,000—49,999 eligible individuals ($2,000,000)
  2. A per capita funding tier for states that had 3,000—19,999 eligible individuals arrived/served; and
  3. A lower funding tier for states that had 100—2,999 eligible individuals arrived/served, which was further broken down to:
    1. 1,500—2,999 eligible individuals ($300,000)
    2. 1,000—1,499 eligible individuals ($275,000)
    3. 500—999 eligible individuals ($250,000)
    4. 200—499 eligible individuals ($200,000)
    5. 100—199 eligible individuals ($150,000)

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

Please note that although this allocation is based on ORR-eligible individuals arrived/served for FY 2022 and FY 2023, the population eligible for services 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 providers for additional resources on serving ORR-eligible populations. 

 

Sincerely,

Kenneth Tota
Bureau Chief, Refugee Program Bureau                                                       
Office of Refugee Resettlement

 

Footnotes

1 October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025.