93.191: Graduate Psychology Education

93.191

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Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) [HHS]

Aug. 19, 2022

Aug. 19, 2022

The Graduate Psychology Education Program supports training of doctoral health psychology students, interns, and post-doctoral residents to provide integrated, interdisciplinary, behavioral health and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and other Substance Use Disorder (SUD) prevention and treatment services in high need and high demand areas. The program also supports faculty development of health service psychologists. The overarching goal of the program is to prepare and build capacity of the doctoral health psychology workforce, to provide mental/behavioral health care, including OUD and other SUD prevention and treatment services, in high need and high demand areas. Grants will be awarded to assist eligible entities in meeting the costs to develop, operate, and maintain graduate psychology doctoral programs, internships, and post-doctoral residency programs in health psychology.

B - Project Grants

Public or private nonprofit schools, universities, or other educational entities which provide for graduate psychology education and training or other public or private nonprofit entities capable, as determined by the Secretary, of carrying out the objectives of the project. Eligible entities are American Psychological Association (APA)-accredited doctoral-level schools and programs of health service psychology, APA-accredited doctoral internships in professional psychology, and APA-accredited post-doctoral residency programs in practice psychology. Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Government and Native American Organizations may apply if otherwise eligible. The eligible entity must demonstrate that the training within an APA accredited psychology training school or program, internship, and post-doctoral residency program will occur in collaboration with two or more health disciplines other than psychology.

Doctoral students, doctoral interns, and post-doctoral residents receiving a stipend in the GPE Program must be in an APA-accredited program, a citizen of the United States, a non-citizen national of the United States, or a foreign national who possesses a visa permitting permanent residence in the United States. Individuals on temporary or student visas are not eligible participants.

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