The Pediatric Primary Care Mental Health Training Grant Program is established to award grants for the development of pediatric mental health training programs that are located in outpatient primary care clinics.
Donor Name: Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/29/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The training programs are designed to increase confidence, skills, and awareness of mental health resources among pediatric primary care providers caring for the mental health needs of pediatric patients.
Priorities
Health Equity Priorities
It is the policy of the State of Minnesota to ensure fairness, precision, equity and consistency in competitive grant awards. This includes implementing diversity and inclusion in grant-making. The Policy on Rating Criteria for Competitive Grant Review establishes the expectation that grant programs intentionally identify how the grant serves diverse populations, especially populations experiencing inequities and/or disparities.
The goals of the Pediatric Primary Care Mental Health Training Grant Program are to:
- Increase confidence, skills, and awareness of mental health resources among pediatric primary care providers caring for the mental health needs of pediatric patients.
- Provide training on conducting comprehensive clinical mental health assessments and potential pharmacological therapy.
- Provide psychiatric consultation to pediatric primary care providers during their outpatient pediatric primary care experiences, in real time when possible.
- Emphasize longitudinal care for patients with behavioral health needs.
An overarching goal of this grant program is that pediatric patients served by participating outpatient primary care clinics will receive more effective, timely, longitudinal care for mental health needs. In advancing these goals, the program will serve Minnesota’s diverse young people, particularly those with mental health and behavioral health needs.
Grant outcomes will include:
- Pediatric primary care providers who participate in the training report increased confidence and skills when caring for the mental health needs of pediatric patients.
- Pediatric primary care providers who participate in the training report increased awareness of mental health resources.
- This grant program will begin to contribute to a decrease in pediatric mental health hospitalizations in the counties in which training sites are located.
Funding Information
- Estimated Amount to Grant: $900,000
- Estimated Award Maximum: $250,000
- Estimated Award Minimum: $50,000
Grant Period
- Grant agreements begin (estimated): May 1, 2024
- Grant agreements end: June 30, 2025
Eligible Expenses
Funds may be spent to cover the costs of:
- Planning related to implementing or expanding pediatric mental health training in an outpatient primary care clinic setting;
- Training site improvements, fees, equipment, and supplies required for implementation of the training programs; and
- Supporting clinical training in the outpatient primary clinic sites.
Indirect expenses are allowable but may not exceed the rates in an organization’s federally negotiated indirect cost rate agreement. If an organization does not have a federally negotiated indirect rate, indirect costs may not exceed 10% of direct costs.
Eligible Projects
Pediatric Primary Care Mental Health Training grants may be awarded to eligible primary care training programs to plan and implement new programs or expand existing programs in pediatric mental health training.
Training programs must:
- be located in outpatient primary care clinics,
- focus on the training of pediatric primary care providers working with multidisciplinary mental health teams,
- provide training on conducting comprehensive clinical mental health assessments and potential pharmacological therapy,
- provide psychiatric consultation to pediatric primary care providers during their outpatient pediatric primary care experiences, in real time when possible,
- emphasize longitudinal care for patients with behavioral health needs, and
- develop partnerships with community resources.
Grantee programs will report to MDH on the following outcomes:
- The number of pediatric primary care providers completing the training.
- Demographics of providers completing the training, collected through optional selfreport, including race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability status.
- Information about the types of providers completing the training, their years of experience, and their practice locations.
- Information about the effectiveness of training methods and supports.
- The percentage of providers who completed the training who report increased confidence and skills when caring for the mental health needs of pediatric patients.
- The percentage of providers who completed the training who report increased awareness of mental health resources.
Eligible Applicants
To be eligible for a Pediatric Primary Care Mental Health Training grant, a training program or proposed training program must:
- be located in an outpatient primary care clinic,
- focus on the training of pediatric primary care providers working with multidisciplinary mental health teams,
- provide training on conducting comprehensive clinical mental health assessments and potential pharmacological therapy,
- provide psychiatric consultation to pediatric primary care providers during their outpatient pediatric primary care experiences,
- emphasize longitudinal care for patients with behavioral health needs, and
- develop partnerships with community resources.
Trainees of the grantees’ programs may include, for example:
- Residents in Pediatrics, Family Medicine, or other primary care fields serving pediatric patients,
- Nurse practitioners in training,
- Physician assistants in training, and
- Already practicing physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants providing pediatric primary care.
For more information, visit MDH.
