Graduate Psychology Education Program (GPE) | HRSA 25 067

Opportunity Information: Apply for HRSA 25 067

The Graduate Psychology Education Program (GPE) is a discretionary grant opportunity from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) designed to strengthen the behavioral health workforce by improving how health service psychologists are trained. The core aim is to support training for doctoral students, interns, and postdoctoral residents in health service psychology so they are ready to deliver integrated, interdisciplinary behavioral health care in real-world settings. A central emphasis of the program is building clinical skill and readiness in trauma-informed care, along with substance use disorder prevention and treatment services, reflecting the ongoing need for providers who can address complex behavioral health concerns within broader health systems.

A key theme of the GPE program is preparing trainees to work in community-based primary care environments, particularly in areas described as high need and high demand. In practice, this means the program is oriented toward settings where patients often face overlapping medical, behavioral health, and social challenges, and where access to specialized behavioral health care may be limited. By focusing on integrated care and interdisciplinary training, the opportunity is meant to produce clinicians who can collaborate effectively with other health professionals and provide behavioral health services as part of a coordinated care team, rather than in isolation.

In addition to supporting trainees directly, the program also includes a deliberate focus on developing health service psychology faculty. This recognizes that training capacity depends heavily on having sufficient qualified educators and supervisors. Strengthening faculty development can expand and sustain training pipelines over time, improve supervision quality, and help programs maintain modern training approaches aligned with integrated care, trauma-informed practice, and evidence-based substance use services.

Eligibility is tied to accredited training programs in health service psychology. Applicants may include accredited doctoral programs, internship programs, and/or postdoctoral residency programs in fields such as clinical psychology, counseling psychology, and school psychology. The training program must be accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency that is approved by the U.S. Department of Education for these purposes. The eligible applicant types listed for this opportunity are broad and include state, county, and local governments; special district governments; independent school districts; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; other Native American tribal organizations; private institutions of higher education; and other entities, as allowed under the funding notice. In practical terms, this structure allows a range of institutions to apply, but the accreditation requirement for the psychology training program is a central gatekeeper for eligibility.

From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity is identified as HRSA 25-067 and is associated with CFDA number 93.191 under the health funding activity category. It is offered as a grant, with an expected 50 awards. The original application closing date is January 21, 2025. The listing shows an award ceiling of 0, which typically indicates that the maximum award amount is not specified in the summary field and would need to be confirmed in the full notice of funding opportunity or related HRSA guidance.

Overall, this GPE funding opportunity is aimed at expanding and improving the pipeline of psychologists who can deliver integrated behavioral health care in community-based primary care settings, with strong competency in trauma-informed approaches and substance use disorder prevention and treatment. By pairing trainee support with faculty development, the program is structured to boost both the immediate training output and the longer-term capacity and quality of health service psychology education.

• The Health Resources and Services Administration in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Graduate Psychology Education Program (GPE)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.191.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-10-22.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-01-21. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 50 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Private institutions of higher education, Others.

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