Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training for Professionals

Funding Opportunity Number: HRSA-14-077 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.243Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: HHS-HRSAClosing Date: Jun 03, 2014Award Ceiling: $480,000Expected Number of Awards: 120Creation Date: Apr 03, 2014Funding Opportunity Description: This announcement solicits applications for the FY 2014 Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) for Professionals grant program.  In support of the White House¿s Now is the Time initiative, the grant program aims to expand the mental health and substance abuse (jointly referred to as behavioral health throughout the funding opportunity announcement) workforce serving children, adolescents, and transitional-age youth at risk for developing or who have developed a recognized behavioral health disorder.  Grantees will be expected to expand the behavioral health workforce by supporting pre-degree clinical internships and field placements for students at accredited master¿s-level schools and programs of social work, psychology, marriage and family therapy, psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner, and professional counseling that require a pre-degree clinical field placement in behavioral health; as well as, supporting doctoral-level health service psychology internship programs (includin...
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