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Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) Evidence Based Telehealth Network Program (EB-TNP)
Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) Evidence Based Telehealth Network Program (EB-TNP). The purpose of this program is to integrate behavioral health services into primary care settings using telehealth technology through telehealth networks and evaluate the effectiveness of such integration.
The goal for the BHI/EB-TNP Program is to support evidence-based projects that utilize telehealth technologies through telehealth networks in rural and underserved areas1 (i.e., rural areas that are also frontier communities, medically underserved...
areas, or have medically underserved populations), to:
(1) improve access to integrated behavioral health services in primary care settings; and
(2) expand and improve the quality of health information available to health care providers by evaluating the effectiveness of integrating telebehavioral health services into primary care settings and establishing an evidence-based model that can assist health care providers.
Applicants are encouraged to propose novel ways to achieve equity in access to affordable, high-quality, culturally and linguistically appropriate telebehavioral care for rural and underserved patients across the U.S. Through this opportunity, HRSA aims to support innovative integration strategies of telebehavioral health into primary care settings that serve rural and underserved communities with high needs for such services. As a result, applicants must propose to provide telebehavioral health services to patients in rural and underserved areas. Applicants are strongly encouraged to propose established telehealth networks to provide telebehavioral health services which are integrated into the primary care for populations with disparate challenges to quickly and efficiently provide telebehavioral health services to them.
Program results will include generating data to inform research activities; expanding telebehavioral health services to rural and underserved communities and primary care settings; increasing the capacity of existing telehealth networks, and developing innovative strategies, methods, or tools, to integrate telebehavioral health services into primary care settings.
For more details, see Program Requirements and Expectations.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants
Government
State governments
County governments
Federally recognized Native American tribal governments
Special district governments
City or township governments
Business
Small businesses
For-profit organizations other than small businesses
Nonprofit
Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)
Nonprofits non-higher education without 501(c)(3)
Other Native American tribal organizations
Miscellaneous
Other
Education
Independent school districts
Additional information
You can apply if your organization is in the United States, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau and is a: public or private, non-profit or for-profit entity Domestic faith-based or community-based organization Tribal (governments, organizations) You can be located in an urban area, but your proposed telehealth network must include at least two originating sites located in rural and underserved areas.
Grantor contact information
Description
Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration
cmena@hrsa.gov
Email
Contact Carlos Mena at (301)443-3198 or email cmena@hrsa.gov
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