Central California Alliance for Health opens Round 3 of its capacity grants — CHW recruitment, provider recruitment, and health IT — with an August 18 deadline

The Central California Alliance for Health opened Round 3 of its Medi-Cal Capacity Grant Program with applications due, verbatim, 'Aug. 18, 2026 by 11:59 p.m.' Three of the open opportunities go directly at workforce and infrastructure: CHW Recruitment, which 'subsidizes health care organizations to recruit and hire CHWs to provide the compensable CHW benefit'; Provider Recruitment, which 'subsidizes health care organizations to recruit and hire new health care professionals who will serve the Medi-Cal population'; and Healthcare Technology.

The Alliance is the Medi-Cal managed care plan for Mariposa, Merced, Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz counties, so this is a live, dated, actionable window for Central Coast and Central Valley health centers in the same five-county footprint as the Alliance reinvestment already tracked — and the same counties carrying Monterey's and Santa Cruz's county-budget stress and the Santa Cruz Medical Group physician exodus.

IMPORTANT SOURCING LIMIT: the Alliance's own pages do NOT publish per-opportunity award amounts, and they do not name FQHCs as a distinct eligible class. Any specific dollar-per-CHW figure circulating for this program should not be attributed to these pages.

The CHW Recruitment opportunity is the most directly relevant given the $15M promotora line in California's enacted budget.