Sec. 721. Demonstration grant program to train health service psychologists in community-based mental health
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall establish a grant program under which the Assistant Secretary of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders may award grants to eligible institutions to support the recruitment, education, and clinical training experiences of health services psychology students, interns, and postdoctoral residents for education and clinical experience in community mental health settings. For purposes of this section, the term eligible institutions includes American Psychological Association-accredited doctoral, internship, and postdoctoral residency schools or programs in health service psychology that— are focused on the development and implementation of interdisciplinary training of psychology graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in providing mental and behavioral health services to address substance use disorders, serious emotional disturbance, and serious illness, as well as developing faculty and implementing curriculum to prepare psychologists to work with underserved populations; and demonstrate an ability to train health service psychologists in psychiatric hospitals, forensic hospitals, community mental health centers, community health centers, federally qualified health centers, or adult and juvenile correctional facilities.
In selecting grant recipients under this section, the Secretary shall give priority to eligible institutions in which training focuses on the needs of individuals with serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, justice-involved youth, and individuals with or at high risk for substance use disorders. There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $12,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2018 through 2022.