Betsy Wood
13:33 - 13:58
“there was the 4-week letter of interest submission followed later by a 3-week full application. From the day that the letters of interest opened until we first started issuing award decisions was about 24 weeks. So while that overall cycle was really long, the time that you all had to develop your proposal was relatively short and, and split across 2 separate windows.”
- Speaker
- Betsy Wood
- Timestamp
- 13:33 – 13:58
- Transcript
- Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Funding Cycle Updates: Reflections and Next Steps (September 11, 2026)
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- September 11, 2026
From the transcript
To help understand some of these year 2 changes that we're working on, um, we do think it's helpful to look back at where the time went in the first cycle. Our spring cycle, our first cycle had 2 separate applicant steps. So there was the 4-week letter of interest submission followed later by a 3-week full application. From the day that the letters of interest opened until we first started issuing award decisions was about 24 weeks. So while that overall cycle was really long, the time that you all had to develop your proposal was relatively short and, and split across 2 separate windows.
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