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Opioid Workforce Expansion Programs (OWEP) for Professionals and Paraprofessionals

Purpose: Train behavioral health professionals who provide opioid use disorder and other substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery services in high-need and high-demand areas.

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.

Predoctoral Pediatric Training in General Dentistry and Dental Hygiene

Purpose: Enhance dental workforce education and training to prepare predoctoral dental students, dental hygiene students, and dental hygienists to practice in new and emerging models of care that are designed to meet the needs of vulnerable, underserved, or rural communities.

Preventive Medicine Residency (PMR) Program

Purpose: Increase the number, quality, and diversity of preventive medicine residents and physicians to support access to preventive medicine and to integrate population health with primary care to improve the health of communities.

Primary Care Dental Faculty Development Program

Purpose: Establish a training center for the career development of junior primary care dental faculty, doctors of dental surgery, doctors of dental medicine, and dental hygienists.

Primary Care Loans (PCL)

Purpose: Assist accredited public schools and educational intuitions in offering low-interest loans to degree-seeking students in the health care field.

Primary Care Training and Enhancement (PCTE): Community Prevention and Maternal Health (CPMH)

Purpose: Train primary care physicians in maternal health care to improve maternal health outcomes.

Primary Care Training and Enhancement (PCTE): Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care Program (IBHPC)

Purpose: Support training programs that integrate behavioral health care into primary care with a special emphasis on treating opioid use disorder.

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.

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