Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training- Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults (BHWET-CAY) Program for Professionals

For programmatic or technical questions:
India Johns
301.443.7647
BHWET-CAY@hrsa.gov

For grants management or budget questions:
Nandini Assar
nassar@hrsa.gov

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This program (BHWET-CAY) provides grants to increase the supply and distribution of behavioral health professionals providing services for children, adolescents, and young adults (CAY), and thereby increase access to behavioral health providers and services in rural and underserved communities.

Program goals:

• Establishing training opportunities for trainees in community-based settings serving children, adolescents, and young adults, prioritizing settings in underserved and rural communities
• Increasing the number of clinical supervisors for behavioral health professional trainees working with children, adolescents, and young adults and enhancing training opportunities for new and existing faculty and clinical supervisors focused on the behavioral health needs of children, adolescents, and young adults
• Providing assistance and supports to connect graduates with employment opportunities

Eligible applicants include:

• Accredited institutions of higher education and accredited professional training programs that are establishing or expanding internships or other field placement programs in mental health including 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, and professional counseling, including such programs with a focus on child and adolescent mental health, trauma, and transitional-age youth
• Accredited doctoral, internship, and post-doctoral residency 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 masters 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
• Domestic community-based organizations, tribes and tribal organizations, if otherwise eligible

Award ceiling: $530,000
Project period: 2 years
Estimated number of awards: 18
Estimated total program funding: $9,700,000

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