Mental and Behavioral Health Education and Training Grants

The purpose of the behavioral health programs is to develop and expand the behavioral health workforce and address the mental health and resiliency concerns among health care providers. Expanding the behavioral health workforce is addressed through the implementation of the following programs: 1) Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training- Professionals Program, 2) Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training- Paraprofessionals Program, 3) Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training- Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults, 4) Opioid-Impacted Family Support Program and 5) Behavioral Health Workforce Development Technical Assistance Program. The behavioral health programs also seek to promote efforts to address mental health and provider resiliency among health care providers through education and training activities through the following programs: 1) Health and Public Safety Workforce Resiliency Training Program (HPSWTP); 2) Promoting Resilience and Mental Health Among Health Professional Workforce (PRMHW), and 3) Health and Public Safety Workforce Resiliency Technical Assistance Center (WRTAC).

BHWET Professional and BHWET CAY: 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 (which may include master�s and doctoral level programs), social work, school social work, substance use disorder prevention and treatment, marriage and family therapy, occupational therapy, school counseling, or professional counseling, accredited doctoral, internship, and post-doctoral residency programs of health service psychology (including clinical psychology, counseling, and school counseling, and accredited master�s and doctoral degree programs of social work. BHWET Paraprofessional: Behavioral health paraprofessional training programs that are state licensed or accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency, and designated to provide behavioral health training. Entities may include states, political subdivisions of states, Indian tribes and tribal organizations, public or nonprofit private health professions schools, academic health centers, State or local governments, or other appropriate public or private nonprofit entities as determined appropriate by the Secretary. OIFSP: State-licensed mental health nonprofit and for-profit organizations,...

Procedures for assessing the technical merit of grant applications have been instituted to provide an objective review of applications and to assist the applicant in understanding the standards against which each application will be judged. Critical indicators have been developed for each review criterion to assist the applicant in presenting pertinent information related to that criterion and to provide the reviewer with a standard for evaluation. Competing applications are reviewed by nonfederal reviewers for technical merit recommendations. Applications will be reviewed and evaluated against the following criteria: (1) Purpose and Need; (2) Response to Program Purpose; (3) Impact; (4) Organizational Information, Resources and Capabilities; and (5) Support Requested. See the most recent Notice of Funding Opportunity for detailed selection criteria.

Cost sharing is only required for doctoral-level Psychology, Psychiatry, Behavioral Pediatrics and Psychiatric Nursing internships, where applicable, to cover any student stipend costs beyond $32,500 per geographic reimbursement requirements set by the applicable association. BHWET and BHWET CAY do not require cost matching. OIFSP does not require cost matching. PRMHW does not require cost matching. HPSWRP does not require cost matching. WRTAC does not require cost matching.This program has MOE requirements, see funding agency for further details. see funding agency for further details.