CFDA#
93.732
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Funder Type
Federal Government
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IT Classification
B - Readily funds technology as part of an award
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Authority
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Summary
The purpose of the BHWET Program for Professionals is to increase the supply of behavioral health professionals while also improving distribution of a quality behavioral health workforce and thereby increasing access to behavioral health services. A special focus is placed on the knowledge and understanding of children, adolescents, and transitional-aged youth at risk for behavioral health disorders.
Program Objectives:
- Increase the number of new or expanded community partnerships with experiential training sites in high-need and high-demand areas.
- Promote collaborative training by using team-based models of care to integrate behavioral health care into interprofessional primary care settings.
- Recruit a diverse workforce interested in working with children, adolescents, and young adults.
- Recruit, develop, and expand the capacity to train clinical supervisors to support and mentor behavioral health trainees
Professional grant recipients must use BHWET funds for the following activities:
- Provide stipend support to students who are in their final experiential training (internship or field placement) prior to graduation for no less than six consecutive months and no more than 12 consecutive months (or 24 months for part-time students).
- Enhance didactic and experiential training activities that develop trainee competencies in behavioral health and its integration into primary care, school settings, and other sub-specialty care for the development and implementation of interprofessional training (two or more health disciplines).
- Create or enhance current evidence-based interprofessional training programs for faculty and field site supervisors supporting BHWET Pro trainees.
- Incorporate technology integration by providing options for distance learning, didactic and experiential training activities, and tele-behavioral health services, and by increasing digital health literacy.
- Establish relationships with community-based partners to assist students with job placement after graduation.
- Collect National Provider Identifier (NPI) numbers from all trainees before the end of the training year. Trainees who receive HRSA funds from the BHWET Program for Professionals must apply for and obtain a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number as a condition of their traineeship support. Recipient must collect and report the NPI numbers of behavioral health students who receive traineeship funds and follow-up with graduates to collect postgraduation employment demographics for a minimum of 1 year after graduation.
- Provide continuous quality improvement for program evaluation and at completion of the period of performance. Award recipients are required to participate in federally designed evaluations upon request.
- Collaborate regularly with other grant recipients of the BHWET Program for Professionals to leverage resources and enhance interprofessional training opportunities.
History of Funding
Previous funding awards can be viewed here: https://data.hrsa.gov/tools/find-grants?program=All%20HRSA%20Program%20Areas&programName=Behavioral%20Health%20Workforce%20Education%20and%20Training%20for%20Professionals%20and%20Paraprofessionals%20(G02)
Additional Information
There is a funding priority for programs that have demonstrated the ability to train psychology, psychiatry, and social work professionals to work in integrated care settings. There is a funding preference for any qualified application ranked above the 20th percentile of proposals that have been recommended for approval by objective review committee that either:
- Has a high rate for placing graduates in practice settings that have a principal focus of serving residents of medically underserved communities.
- During the 2-two year period before the start of the 2025 fiscal year (academic year 2022-2023 and academic year 2023-2024), has achieved a significant increase in the rate of placing graduates in such settings.
- Is a new program (having graduated fewer than 3 classes) that meets at least 4 of the following criteria:
- The training organization's mission statement includes preparing health professionals to serve underserved populations.
- The program's curriculum includes content which will help prepare practitioners to serve underserved populations.
- Substantial clinical training in MUCs is required under the program.
- A minimum of 20 percent of the clinical faculty of the program spend at least 50 percent of their time providing or supervising care in MUCs.
- The entire program or a substantial portion of the program is physically located in a MUC.
- Student assistance, which is linked to service in MUCs following graduation, is available to students through the program.
- The program provides a placement mechanism for helping graduates find positions in MUCs.
Eligibility Details
The following organizations are eligible to apply:
- Accredited institutions of higher education or accredited behavioral health professional training programs in behavioral pediatrics, social work, school social work, substance use disorder prevention and treatment, marriage and family therapy, occupational therapy, school counseling, or professional counseling. Programs must require a pre-degree clinical field placement in behavioral health as part of the training and a prerequisite for graduation.
- Accredited schools of masters or doctoral-level training in psychiatry, psychiatric nursing programs.
- APA-accredited doctoral level schools and programs in health service psychology or school psychology programs with a practicum of ten or more hours per week for two semesters, and APA-accredited doctoral internship programs in professional psychology.
Deadline Details
Applications must be submitted by January 21, 2025. A similar deadline is anticipated every 3-5 years.
Award Details
Approximately $59,600,000 is available in total funding. Up to 101 awards will be granted. Professional Track awards are up to $480,000. The project period is four (4) years from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2029. Funding beyond the first year is dependent on the availability of appropriated funds for the BHWET Program in subsequent fiscal years, satisfactory recipient performance, and a decision that continued funding is in the best interest of the Federal Government. The funding request for each of years 2, 3, and 4 cannot exceed the year 1 request.
Match is required for only doctoral-level psychiatry, psychology, school psychology, psychiatric nursing or behavioral pediatrics internships, where applicable, to cover any student stipend costs beyond $32,500 per geographic reimbursement requirements set by association requirements.
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