Integrated Substance Use Disorder Training Program (ISTP)
Purpose: Expand the number of practicing professionals to provide addiction prevention, treatment, and recovery services in underserved communities.
Health Workforce Programs
Our workforce programs help strengthen the health workforce and connect skilled health care providers to communities in need, improving the health of people who need it most.
We offer scholarship, loan, and loan repayment programs to individuals and award grants to organizations (For example, schools, hospitals, health departments).
National Health Service Corps Rural Community Loan Repayment Program (NHSC Rural Community LRP)
Purpose: Recruit and retain medical, nursing, and behavioral/mental health clinicians with specific training and credentials to provide evidence-based substance use disorder treatment in rural Health Professional Shortage Areas.
National Health Service Corps Substance Use Disorder Workforce Loan Repayment Program (NHSC SUD Workforce LRP)
Purpose: Recruit and retain medical, nursing, and behavioral/mental health clinicians with specific training and credentials to provide evidence-based substance use disorder treatment and counseling in eligible Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs).
Opioid-Impacted Family Support Program (OIFSP)
Purpose: Support paraprofessionals to work with families affected by opioids and other substance use disorders.
Pediatric Specialty Loan Repayment Program
Purpose: Recruit and retain medical, nursing, and behavioral/mental health clinicians with specific training and credentials providing pediatric medical subspecialty, pediatric surgical specialty, or child and adolescent mental and behavioral health care in Health Professional Shortage Areas.
Primary Care Training and Enhancement (PCTE): Physician Assistant Rural Training in Behavioral Health (PCTE-PARB)
Purpose: Develop clinical rotations for primary care Physician Assistant (PA) students in rural areas. They will integrate behavioral health with primary care services.
Promoting Resilience and Mental Health among the Health Professional Workforce (PRMHW)
Purpose: Provide support to entities providing health care, health care providers associations, and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), taking into consideration the needs of rural and medically underserved communities, to establish, enhance, or expand evidence informed or evidenced-based programs or protocols to promote resilience, mental health, and wellness among their providers, other personnel, and members, collectively known as the “health workforce.”
Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program (STAR LRP)
Purpose: Recruit and retain medical, nursing, behavioral/mental health clinicians, and paraprofessionals who provide direct treatment or recovery support of patients with or in recovery from a substance use disorder.
The National HCOP Academies
Purpose: Assist students from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter and successfully complete health profession schools. The program prepares students to meet the admissions requirements for the next level of their education and receive a health professions degree or certificate.