Evidence-Based Tele-Behavioral Health Network Program

For programmatic or technical questions:
Kerri Cornejo
301.443.4204
kcornejo@hrsa.gov

For grants management or budget questions:
India Smith
301.443.2096
ismith@hrsa.gov

The Evidence-Based Tele-Behavioral Health Network Program provides funding to use telehealth networks to increase access to behavioral healthcare services in rural and frontier communities and to conduct evaluations of those efforts to establish an evidence-base for assessing the effectiveness of tele-behavioral healthcare for patients, providers, and payers.

The program has 2 clinical priorities:

• Mental health
• Substance abuse, particularly opioid abuse

Eligible applicants include:

• Domestic public or private nonprofit entities
• Faith-based and community-based organizations
• Tribes
• Tribal organizations

Applicants should be experienced telehealth providers and should design their proposed projects to maximize the number of individuals receiving tele-behavioral health services in rural areas.

Network members may be public, private, nonprofit, or for-profit entities that provide services to rural areas.

Award ceiling: $350,000 per year
Project period: 3 years
Estimated number of awards: 14
Estimated total program funding: $4,900,000

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

To locate application instructions:

1. Open the grants.gov announcement.
2. Click on the package tab.
3. Choose to preview the opportunity package.
4. Click on the button that says download instructions.
5. Application instructions will be in your browser download folder.