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To meet children's behavioral health needs, our programs help pediatric health professionals with consultation, training, resources, and referrals. This support helps them effectively add behavioral health to routine checkups.
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Why is this program needed?
More than ever, pediatric health professionals are seeing children who struggle with anxiety, depression, and other behavioral concerns. Many of these professionals need help to provide these children the care they need.
Which pediatric health professionals can benefit from this program?
This program supports professionals in pediatric, emergency department, and school settings.
How do awardees support these pediatric health professionals?
Awardees organize pediatric mental health care teams. These teams are made up of:
- Child and adolescent psychiatrists
- Care coordinators
- Other licensed behavioral health professionals (such as psychologists, social workers, and mental health counselors)
Professionals can contact these teams by phone.
What happens when a health professional calls the phone lines?
When a pediatrician or other health professional calls the service, the experts:
- Assess the patient’s situation
- Recommend treatment options
- Refer callers to other specialists, as needed
How does this build workforce capacity?
The teams help pediatric health professionals add behavioral health services to their practice by:
- Equipping them with knowledge, skills, practice, and attitudes to treat a child themselves or to understand when to refer the child to another specialist
- Offering educational webinars so professionals can better screen, identify, treat, and refer children with behavioral health conditions
- Creating directories of specialists in the pediatrician’s service area and resources to address a child’s needs
What grantee guidance and resources are available?
- PMHCA fact sheet (PDF - 1 MB)
- FY23 New Awardee Orientation (October 23, 2023) and slide deck (PDF - 4 MB)
- PMHCA program evaluation (PDF - 736 KB)
- Performance reporting resources
Like to see what state-level programs look like? Watch these videos from our awardees.
Where are these programs?
We have 54 programs. They reach:
- 46 states
- The District of Columbia
- The U.S. Virgin Islands
- The Republic of Palau
- The Chickasaw Nation
- The Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
- The Federated States of Micronesia
- The Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands
- Guam
Map of the United States and territories showing which areas received HRSA PMHCA initial and expansion funding and whether expansion funding has been allocated for use in schools, emergency departments, both, or general use.
HRSA-PMHCA Initial and Expansion Funding: Alabama (schools); Alaska (schools); Arkansas (schools); California (schools); Colorado (both); Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (general); Connecticut (both); Delaware (both); District of Columbia (schools); Federated States of Micronesia (general); Florida (emergency departments); Georgia (general); Guam (both); Hawaii (general); Illinois (general); Indiana (emergency departments); Iowa (general); Kansas (schools and other); Kentucky (schools); Louisiana (both); Maine (both); Maryland (emergency departments); Massachusetts (general); Michigan (both); Minnesota (emergency departments); Mississippi (schools); Missouri (schools); Montana (schools); Nebraska (both); Nevada (general); New Hampshire (schools); New Jersey (emergency departments); New Mexico (schools); New York (schools); North Carolina (schools); North Dakota (schools); Ohio (both); Oklahoma (emergency departments); Palau (both); Rhode Island (both); South Carolina (schools); South Dakota (both); Tennessee (both); U S Virgin Islands (schools); Utah (both); Vermont (both); Virginia (emergency departments); Washington (both); West Virginia (emergency departments); Wisconsin (emergency departments); Wyoming (both).
Not HRSA-PMHCA funded: American Samoa; Arizona; Idaho; Oregon; Pennsylvania; Puerto Rico; Republic of the Marshall Islands; Texas.
Points of interest. Tarrant County, Texas, received HRSA PMHCA initial and expanded funding for schools (the rest of the state did not receive funding). The Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma received initial and expanded funding for both schools and emergency departments (the rest of the state received funding for emergency departments only). Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians (CI) in Minnesota received initial and expanded funding for schools (the rest of the state received funding for emergency departments).
Recent awardees
Find awardee names, locations, and funding information:
Program expansion
- 2018 – 2019: $10 million funded 21 programs
- 2021 – 2022: $80 million funded 29 programs through 2025
- 2022: $80 million awarded over 4 years
- Awards expanded to include hospital emergency departments and schools.
- Forty-nine existing programs received expansion awards.
- Three organizations received funding to provide help to the 49 programs. They are:
- 2023: $19 million awarded to 25 programs
(Awards to the AAP and EIIC continue through 2024)
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