Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program for Paraprofessionals
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Health Workforce
Funds community-based experiential training, field placements and internships for students becoming mental health workers, peer support specialists and other behavioural health paraprofessionals, with a focus on children and transitional-age youth who have experienced trauma. Optional second tier supports registered apprenticeships.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No award ceiling published on the HRSA programme page. Figures appear only inside the full NOFO PDF for each cycle.
- Timing
- Periodic callsPeriodic calls · JulNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The FY25 cycle ran 2025-01-15 to 2025-07-01 with an estimated award date of 2025-09-01; status is now closed. Prior recipients whose funding ended 2025-08-31 could apply as competing continuations, indicating a multi-year performance period between competitions.
- Who can apply
- Master's / undergraduate, Community organisation, Practitioner, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- Domestic public and private institutions of higher education (universities, community colleges, technical schools accredited by a US Department of Education-recognised agency), nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status, faith- and community-based organisations, hospitals, HRSA-funded health centres and FQHCs, rural health clinics, tribal governments and organisations, and state/local governments. Individuals are not eligible.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- paraprofessional training · peer support specialists · apprenticeship · youth trauma
- Apply at
- https://www.hrsa.gov/grants/find-funding/HRSA-25-066
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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