Grants and Funding

The BC Employer Training Grant provides funding to small, medium and large enterprises to support skills training for their workforces, including prospective new hires. Grants are available to businesses and organizations of all sizes including self-employed people.

The business must have been fully operational in B.C. for at least one year at the time of application. Publicly funded entities like hospitals and regional health authorities are not eligible. Detailed eligibility criteria and program details are available.

Additional Details:

• Training must result in increased job security or a better job for a current employee once training is completed, or a job for an unemployed person.
• The Province will reimburse employers 80 per cent of eligible training costs. The employer must contribute the remaining 20 per cent.
• Employers are eligible to receive up to $10,000 per participant and up to $300,000 per fiscal year (April 1–March 31).
• At the time of application, participants must be unemployed or employed by the applicant employer.

For more information about the program, please email ETG@gov.bc.ca. 

Eligibility

A new team-based care grant will provide $15,000 to eligible family practices that have onboarded inter-professional team (IPT) members. 

• Work within a group practice consisting of two or more physicians that has added an eligible IPT member to the group practice. The physicians working together in a group practice may or may not be co-located and may have an arrangement to jointly fund an IPT position.
• Meet the definition of a Community Longitudinal Family Physician as per the FPSC preamble.
• Have completed phase two of the FPSC phases of panel management.
• Commit to participating in quality improvement activities related to team-based care such as services offered through the FPSC Practice Support Program, including team-based care coaches. Quality improvement activities should be aligned with the National Interprofessional Competencies Framework.
• Agree to work collaboratively with the Ministry of Health, the primary care network (PCN) (if applicable), and other partners (e.g. division of family practice, health authority) towards implementing the attributes of the patient medical home (PMH) and PCN.

How to apply

To claim this grant, a group of family doctors must jointly submit an application form after an IPT position has been filled. For more details about the team-based care grant, please see the FAQ.

Deadline: An end date has not yet been established for this grant.

Physicians or medical trainees partnering on a project with an underserved community in British Columbia or internationally can apply for a grant of up to $10,000.

The RGHPI aims to enhance capacity for generalism in rural BC and to foster reciprocal learning in diverse health systems and community contexts. Also, to demonstrate how global health and planetary health (local and international) community partnerships can heighten awareness, create innovative solutions to healthcare challenges, including, but not limited to climate change, and lead to improved health outcomes, especially for underserved, marginalized, and Indigenous populations.

To be eligible, applicants must be either a British Columbian:

• physician practicing rural medicine and a demonstrated interest in global health; or
• medical trainee (resident or medical student) with a demonstrated commitment to practicing rural medicine and interest in global health. The applicant partner(s) may be based in rural underserved communities in British Columbia, other parts of Canada, or internationally. 

For more information on eligible projects and how to apply, see the Rural Global Health Partnership Initiative website. 

The Rural Physician Research Grant Program empowers rural physician researchers—especially new aspiring researchers—to pursue innovative rural research projects that advance rural health in British Columbia. Through this program, rural physician researchers will be able to apply for research grants of up to $10,000 to support rural health research. The annual application deadline for RPRGP takes place on April 30.

Eligibility:

• Physicians practicing rural medicine and with demonstrable connections to rural communities.
• Carrying out research pertaining to advancing health in rural British Columbia.
• Students and other co-Investigators may participate so long as the work is led by a rural physician.

Priority will be given to work in rural BC led by active physicians in current rural practice.

For more information and how to apply, see the Rural Physician Research Grant Program website or contact grants@rccbc.ca.