Health Workforce Programs

Purpose: Prepare new primary care or behavioral health nurse practitioners to work in integrated, community-based settings.

Purpose: Increase the number of primary care nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and certified nurse midwives trained and prepared to provide primary care services, mental health and substance use disorder care, and/or maternal health care.

Purpose: Develop and enhance education and training networks within communities, academic institutions, and community-based organizations.

Purpose: Develop and expand community-based experiential training to increase the supply of students preparing to become peer support specialists and other behavioral health-related paraprofessionals while also improving distribution of a quality behavioral health workforce.

Purpose: Increase the supply and distribution of behavioral health providers in rural and underserved communities to address the behavioral health needs of children, adolescents, and young adults (ages 16-25).

Purpose: Improve access to culturally appropriate health care by increasing the number of underrepresented minority students who enter and graduate from health professions training programs.

Purpose: Educate and prepare the pediatric health workforce to serve children and innovate in the area of pediatrics to compensate for the disparity in the level of federal graduate medical education funding for freestanding children’s teaching hospitals versus other types of teaching hospitals.

Purpose: Increase the number of community health workers and health support workers and equip them with the skillsets needed to provide effective community outreach build trust with communities, support connections to and retention in care and support services, and implement other strategies to increase access to care and to assist individuals in prevention services and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and other public health emergencies in underserved communities.

Purpose: Strengthen the primary care workforce by supporting the academic career development of dental faculty and primary care physicians though a collaborative project between multiple departments.

Purpose: Increase the number of dental and dental hygiene faculty in the workforce by assisting dental and dental hygiene training programs to attract and retain dental and dental hygiene faculty through the operation of a loan repayment program.