Health Workforce Programs

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State Loan Repayment Program (SLRP)

Purpose: Provide grant funding for states and territories to operate their own loan repayment programs. Through this program, each state and territory can design programs that address the most pressing health care needs of their residents.

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.

Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program (THCGME)

Purpose: Support the training of residents in primary care residency training programs in community-based ambulatory patient care centers.

Teaching Health Center Planning and Development

Purpose: Create new community-based residency programs or rural residency training tracks to increase the primary care physician workforce in rural communities.

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.