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Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program for Professionals

This funding record is inactive. Please see the program website or contact the program sponsor to determine if this program is currently accepting applications or will open again in the future.

 
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.732
Sponsors
Bureau of Health Workforce, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Deadlines
Jan 21, 2021
Contact

For programmatic or technical assistance questions:
Isabel Nieto
301.443.2351
inieto@hrsa.gov

For business, administrative, or fiscal questions:
Nandini Assar, PhD
301.443.4920
nassar@hrsa.gov

Purpose

The Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program for Professionals provides funding to develop and expand experiential training opportunities, such as field placements and internships, to improve the distribution and supply of the behavioral health workforce. The program emphasizes relationships with community-based partners to increase access to quality behavioral health services across the lifespan in high need and high demand areas. Special focus is placed on demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the specific concerns for children, adolescents, and transitional-aged youth who are at risk for behavioral health disorders.

Objectives include:

  • Increase the number of experiential training sites to promote the integration of behavioral health into primary care settings in high need and high demand areas. Experiential placements must include interdisciplinary training of two or more health disciplines using a team based care approach to provide quality behavioral health services.
  • Enhance didactic and experiential training activities through the development of competencies in primary and behavioral integrated, interprofessional team-based trauma informed care, for trainees, faculty, and staff
  • Establish community partnerships to ensure participation from individuals and groups from different racial, ethnic, cultural, geographic, religious, linguistic, and class backgrounds, and different genders and sexual orientations, opportunities for field placements, community education, career development, and provide job placement services, to increase access to behavioral health services
  • Promote technology integration in the provision of services and training programs, including utilizing telehealth services, implementing strategies to increase digital health literacy, and offering options for distance learning
  • Reduce financial barriers by providing financial support to trainees in the form of stipends and other participant support costs
Eligibility

Eligible applicants include:

  • Accredited institutions of higher education or accredited professional training programs that are establishing or expanding internships or other field placement programs in mental health in:
    • Psychiatry
    • Psychology
    • School psychology
    • Behavioral pediatrics
    • Psychiatric nursing
    • Social work
    • School social work
    • Substance use disorder prevention and treatment
    • Marriage and family therapy
    • Occupational therapy
    • School counseling
    • Professional counseling
  • Accredited doctoral, internship, and post-doctoral programs of health service psychology for the development and implementation of interdisciplinary training of psychology graduate students for providing behavioral health services, including trauma-informed care and substance use disorder prevention and treatment services, as well as the development of faculty in health service psychology
  • Accredited master's and doctoral degree programs of social work for the development and implementation of interdisciplinary training of social work graduate students for providing behavioral health services, including trauma-informed care and substance use disorder prevention and treatment services, and the development of faculty in social work
Geographic coverage
Nationwide
Amount of funding

Award ceiling: $480,000 per year
Project period: 4 years
Estimated number of awards: 92
Estimated total program funding: $44,200,000

Matching is only required for doctoral-level psychology, psychiatry, behavioral pediatrics, and psychiatric nursing internships, where applicable, to cover any student stipend costs beyond $28,352 per geographic reimbursement requirements set by the applicable association.

Application process

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.

Tagged as
Behavioral health · Behavioral health workforce · Children and youth · Graduate medical education · Health professions faculty · Health workforce education and training · Health workforce pipeline · Interprofessional training of the health workforce · LGBTQI+ · Minorities · Nurse practitioners and other advanced practice registered nurses · Primary care · Substance use and misuse · Telehealth · Trauma-informed care

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