Behavioral Health Workforce Development Technical Assistance and Evaluation Program

For programmatic or technical questions:
Antoinette Agarwal
301.443.8976
BHWDTAE25@hrsa.gov

For grants management or budget questions:
Nandini Assar, Ph.D.
301.443.4920
nassar@hrsa.gov

The Behavioral Health Workforce Development Technical Assistance and Evaluation Program (Short title: BHWD TAE) will award a cooperative agreement to a single entity to provide tailored technical assistance (TA) for current and future grant recipients under specific HRSA funded programs.

HRSA programs include:

• Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training for Professionals
• Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program for Paraprofessionals
• Graduate Psychology Education Program

Program requirements include:

• Developing and disseminating evidence-based training and other learning opportunities to improve and enhance clinical skills and cultural competency within the BHWD programs
• Developing a community of practice for BHWD program recipients that include academic institutions, community partners, experiential placement sites, and other organizations and TA programs
• Creating a comprehensive collection of the latest evidence-based research and tools, incorporating best practices and approaches for mental health and SUD interventions
• Providing tailored TA to BHWD program recipients through various methods including individual and group TA, webinars, and engagement calls
• Developing and maintaining a public-facing website featuring resources such as toolkits, guidelines, and best practices as well as a private portal for BHWD program recipients to request TA
• Continuously reviewing the effectiveness and security of the TA program's public website, private portal, TA resources, and training tools by monitoring processes and progress toward meeting goals
• Establishing standardized data collection protocols to assess and monitor the needs and outcomes of TA products and services provided to BHWD program recipients
• Developing a plan to evaluate TA provided through rapid-cycle quality improvement (RCQI) for BHWD program recipients
• Developing publications for BHWD program recipients on the TA program's public website.
• Participating in federally designed evaluations to assess program effectiveness and efficiency

Eligible applicants include health professions schools, academic health centers, state and local governments, and other public or private nonprofit entities that provide services and training for health professions.

Award ceiling: $2,499,000 per year
Project period: 4 years
Estimated number of awards: 1

Links to the full announcement and online application process are available through grants.gov. The application instructions will be found on the related documents tab.