[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 4, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-10607]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Minority Fellowship Program
AGENCY: Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), HHS.
ACTION: Notice of intent to award a competing renewal clinical training
grant for the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) to the American
Psychological Association.
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SUMMARY: The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is publishing
this notice to provide information to the public of its intent to award
a competing renewal MFP grant award to the American Psychological
Association for the clinical training of psychology students who are
ethnic minorities for entry into service careers in mental and
addictive health areas. The project period for the competing renewal
grant is anticipated to be three years. The first year's award will be
approximately $266,000. This is not a general request for applications.
The competitive renewal clinical training grant will only be made to
the American Psychological Association.
AUTHORITY: The award will be made under the authority of section 303 of
the Public Health Service (PHS) Act. The authority to administer this
program has been delegated to the Director, CMHS. The Catalog of
Federal Domestic Assistance number for this program is 93.244.
BACKGROUND: CMHS has the responsibility for mental health workforce
development, including the clinical training of mental health
professionals concerned with the treatment of underserved priority
populations: Seriously mentally ill adults; seriously emotionally
disturbed children; and elderly, ethnic minorities and rural
populations with mental disorders; and individuals with co-occurring
mental and addictive disorders. CMHS also has responsibility for
training ethnic minorities to become mental health professionals, which
is a very significant task in light of the gap between the growing
ethnic minority populations requiring mental health services
(approaching 25% of the total population) and the much smaller number
of ethnic minority mental health professionals (less than 10% of the
total).
Over the past several decades, the Federal mental health clinical
training program at NIMH (and currently at CMHS) has addressed this gap
primarily by attempting to increase the numbers of ethnic minority
professionals. Ethnic minority professionals understand the customs and
language of their own particular ethnic group and, therefore, are more
likely to render high-quality mental health services to mentally ill
minorities.
The CMHS MFP is designed to facilitate the entry of minority
students into mental health careers. The long-term goal is to increase
the number of professionals trained at the doctoral level to teach and
provide mental health services, especially to ethnic minority groups.
The MFP was started at NIMH in the 1970s. This program for clinical
training provides grants to each of the four core mental health
professional organizations: The American Nurses Association, the
American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric
Association, and the Council on Social Work Education. These 4 MFP
grantees, in turn, conduct national competitions to make individual
graduate fellowship awards to minority students throughout the country.
Each of the four professional organizations has unique access to those
students entering its profession. Each of the four has recruited the
best students, assured that all program requirements were satisfied,
and monitored the progress of fellows during and after the fellowship
period. In short, there has been no reason to change the program
structure or the grantees administering the four-discipline program;
thus, the mechanism of peer-reviewed competing renewal clinical
training grant has been appropriate.
Therefore, because the American Psychological Association's MFP
grant support will end in FY 1994, the CMHS is providing additional
support for up to three years via a competing renewal grant award. The
American Nurses Association, the American Psychiatric Association and
the Council on Social Work Education have ongoing CMHS MFP grant
support.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Questions concerning the CMHS MFP may be
directed to Dr. Lemuel Clark, Chief, Human Resources Planning and
Development Branch, CMHS, room 15C-18, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD
20857, telephone (301) 443-5850.
Dated: April 28, 1994.
Richard Kopanda,
Acting Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 94-10607 Filed 5-3-94; 8:45 am]
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