Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program for Professionals | HRSA 25 068

Opportunity Information: Apply for HRSA 25 068

The Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program for Professionals (Funding Opportunity Number HRSA-25-068) is a discretionary grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) designed to grow the nation’s behavioral health workforce and help place well-trained providers where they are most needed. The core goal is not only to increase the overall supply of professionals, but also to improve workforce distribution, especially in high-need and high-demand communities. A central emphasis of this opportunity is building provider capacity to meet the behavioral health needs of children, adolescents, and young adults, particularly those at risk for mental health conditions, trauma exposure, and related behavioral health disorders.

The program prioritizes training approaches that reflect how care is increasingly delivered in real-world settings. Applicants are expected to emphasize interprofessional, team-based models of care, strengthen the integration of behavioral health services within primary care environments, and recruit and train a diverse pipeline of professionals who are committed to serving underserved areas. In addition to direct trainee preparation, the opportunity explicitly invests in expanding the number and quality of clinical supervisors, recognizing that strong supervision capacity is essential for scaling internships, field placements, residencies, and other hands-on training experiences.

Eligible applicants are broad and include various levels of government (state, county, city/township, special districts), independent school districts, public and private institutions of higher education, tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments as applicants), and nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status, as well as other eligible entity types as allowed under the notice. The opportunity is geared toward accredited institutions of higher education and accredited professional training programs that are establishing or expanding internships or other field placement programs across a wide range of behavioral health disciplines. These disciplines include psychiatry, psychology, school psychology, behavioral pediatrics, psychiatric nursing (including masters and doctoral programs), social work and school social work, substance use disorder (SUD) prevention and treatment, marriage and family therapy, occupational therapy (including masters and doctoral programs), school counseling, and professional counseling, with particular encouragement for programs that focus on child and adolescent mental health, trauma, and transitional-age youth.

The notice also calls out specific training program types as priority targets for development and implementation of interprofessional education. These include accredited doctoral, internship, and post-doctoral residency programs in health service psychology (such as clinical, counseling, and school psychology) that will prepare psychology graduate students to deliver behavioral health services, including trauma-informed care and SUD prevention and treatment, while also supporting the development of faculty in health service psychology. Similarly, accredited masters and doctoral social work programs are supported to create and implement interprofessional training that equips social work graduate students to provide behavioral health services, including trauma-informed care and SUD prevention and treatment, along with investments in faculty development in social work.

From a funding standpoint, awards have an annual ceiling of $600,000, and HRSA expects to make approximately 101 awards under this opportunity. The grant is categorized under CFDA 93.732 (Health). The opportunity was created on October 22, 2024, and the original application closing date is January 21, 2025. Overall, the BHWET Program for Professionals is structured to help training institutions expand high-quality, supervised, interprofessional clinical training experiences that lead to a larger and better-prepared behavioral health workforce, with a clear throughline toward serving young people and communities facing the greatest gaps in access to care.

• The Health Resources and Services Administration in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program for Professionals" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.732.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-10-22.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-01-21. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $600,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 101 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others.

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