We offer a variety of supporting services, including grant writing, policy development, and board training, to help your health center achieve its goals.
Since our inception in 2000, we have secured over $210 million in grant funding for our community health center clients. Our track record demonstrates our ability to navigate the complexities of grant writing to secure essential funding for a variety of health center needs. Whether you need funding for ongoing operations, service expansion, new sites, or capital improvements, we have the knowledge and experience to help you achieve your goals.
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At SHS, we offer strategic, tailored solutions, expert guidance, and a collaborative approach to help you strengthen your health center’s programs and initiatives.
We offer expert grant writing services tailored to community health centers, leveraging CHC-specific expertise to secure vital funding.
We conduct comprehensive needs assessments, providing valuable insights into community health needs and guiding strategic service planning. Our process meets all HRSA requirements, optimizing impact and supporting you to secure funding.
Policies and procedures are essential for ensuring consistent operations, especially vital for FQHCs. We excel in creating tailored policy manuals covering HR, clinical operations, quality improvement, and patient safety, ensuring compliance and operational efficiency.
Board training ensures effective governance within health centers. It equips board members with the necessary knowledge and skills to fulfill their roles effectively. By investing in board training, health centers can strengthen their performance and sustainability.
We offer essential support in quality improvement, FQHC compliance assessments, and enhanced health center operations. Our services support the delivery of high-quality care and ensure regulatory compliance all tailored to meet the specific needs of health centers and their communities.
Trudy Brown Ripin, MPH
Founder and President
Trudy, with extensive experience in healthcare management and consulting, leverages her Stanford and Harvard education to enhance community health centers nationwide through strategic guidance and compliance support.
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Molly K. Gwisc, MPH
Senior Associate
Molly, with a Masters in Public Health from the University of Connecticut and over twenty years of grant writing experience, has significantly contributed to improving healthcare access for underserved communities through Shoreline since 2002, specializing in FQHC compliance, data analysis, and developing comprehensive community needs assessments.
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Julie McClure Associate
Julie joined SHS in January 2025. Prior to joining SHS, Julie was a grant writer in the non-profit, education, and healthcare space for over 15 years. Her writing has resulted in over $29.6 million in awards to various educational, health, and human service needs organizations. She has in depth experience with the federal grants process, including HRSA Health Center Program Service Area Competitions.
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Laura Provost Brown
Finance & Contract Coordinator
Laura Provost Brown, with over 25 years of financial service experience through Compassionate Money Management, LLC, joined Shoreline in 2010 to oversee finances, client communications, contracts, and agreements, enhancing the company’s operations with her skill, professionalism, and compassion.
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Trudy is a graduate of Stanford University and the Harvard School of Public Health. She has been an independent community health center consultant since 2000, and is the owner of Shoreline Health Solutions.
Prior to her consulting work, Trudy spent three years in leadership at a Federally Qualified Health Center in Connecticut. In this role, she coordinated all grant activities, prepared grant applications, facilitated the Joint Commission accreditation process, coordinated HIV and wellness programs, managed the quality improvement program, and served as team leader for the HRSA Diabetes Collaborative program. Trudy also previously worked for a Medicaid Managed Care organization in Massachusetts, providing services to their membership of over 70 community health centers. In this role, she was the coordinator for their domestic violence screening and outreach program, as well as their HIV counseling and testing programs.
As a consultant, Trudy has provided direct technical assistance to community health centers, health center controlled networks, and primary care associations throughout the country. This includes grant writing; grant application reviews; FQHC compliance and preparation assistance; risk management & quality improvement program support, including peer review, incident management, and sentinel event response; development of policy and procedure manuals; and staff/Board training activities.
Molly has a Masters in Public Health from the University of Connecticut, where she was awarded the Graduate Program Committee Fellowship. Prior to her community health center work, Molly worked for a statewide community health agency and at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, where she obtained large grant funding awards from the Allstate Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Molly has been working with community health centers through Shoreline since 2002.
Throughout her long-standing tenure with Shoreline, Molly has worked with health centers throughout the country to improve access to health care for under-served populations. She has over twenty years of grant writing experience. Molly has extensive knowledge of FQHC requirements and strategies to maintain FQHC compliance. She also has in depth expertise with conducting data collection and analysis, and is skilled in the use of the HRSA Health Center Program GeoCare Navigator (replaced the UDS Mapper system). Using data from a broad array of Federal, State and local sources, Molly has particular expertise at developing comprehensive community needs assessments and using these needs assessments to identify gaps in services.
Julie has had success procuring funding at the state, local and private foundation levels. She also has experience in the use of the HRSA HCP GeoCare Navigator.
Before joining SHS, Julie served as the Director of Marketing and Communication for an FQHC in Nebraska that served 10,700 patients annually. During her six-year tenure at this FQHC, Julie leveraged her writing skills to provide increased education and communication to the communities and patients served by the FQHC. In addition to grant writing, she helped launch two new agency websites, developed a vigorous social media presence, initiated numerous successful marketing campaigns for the agency’s service lines, and shared information through hundreds of press releases and updates.
Prior to her work as a grant writer, Julie was an elected member of her local school district’s Board of Education for 13 years. She is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Laura Provost Brown began working with Shoreline in 2010. Laura oversees Shoreline’s finances, finance-related client communications, as well as client contracts and agreements. Laura has over 25 years of experience and is the owner of Compassionate Money Management, LLC. Through Compassionate Money Management, Laura has provided financial services for a broad array of clients in the fashion, real estate, environmental and medical industries. Shoreline is fortunate to have Laura on our team, as she brings a high degree of skill, professionalism, and compassion to our company’s overall operations.
