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Graduate Psychology Education Programs

Award Number: D4045690
ORGANIZATION: BUREAU OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS
OPDIV: HRSA
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 07/01/2022
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2028

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Graduate Psychology Education Programs - In response to the Graduate Psychology Education (GPE) Program HRSA-25-067, the University of South Carolina (USC) is pursuing competing continuation of D40HP45690 to continue support for our training program—the Integrated Care for Recovery (I-CaRe) Center—that was initially established in 2022. We are eligible for and requesting a funding priority for Funding Priority 1 (demonstrated ability to train psychology professionals to work in integrated areas) and Funding Preference Qualification 3 (new program) (see Attachment 8). South Carolina has the lowest per capita ratio of psychologists to residents in the United States. The University of South Carolina (USC) houses the only APA-accredited psychology programs in the entire state of South Carolina. Prior to 2022, our health service psychology programs (Clinical-Community and School Psychology PhD programs) did not provide didactic or experiential training focused on the prevention, treatment, and recovery of substance use disorders (SUDs) or on the intersection of trauma and SUD. This left our future health service psychologists ill-prepared to respond to the urgent behavioral health needs created by the opioid crisis. To address this critical gap, we have worked diligently since 2022, with the support of the HRSA GPE program (#D40HP45690), to develop an integrated, interdisciplinary behavioral health training program that has successfully trained 18 doctoral health service psychology students. Our students receive high-quality training in evidence-based prevention and treatment for substance misuse, opioid use disorder (OUD), and other SUDs. They are embedded in unique, interdisciplinary clinical externships including primary care clinics, recovery community organizations, and school behavioral health programs where they provide direct services to adolescents and adults who are at-risk for or experiencing SUDs. They have launched timely clinical and research-focused initiatives to address behavioral health needs caused by the opioid crisis in South Carolina. This competing continuation will allow us to continue to recruit and retain high-quality doctoral health service psychology students (5 per year) into our training program and provide them with supplementary training and supervised clinical experiences in interdisciplinary, integrated behavioral health. The funds will enable us to maintain our high-quality clinical externship sites where I-CaRe trainees gain clinical expertise in providing integrated behavioral health services to individuals and families impacted by OUD and/or other SUDs. It will allow us to continue to deliver a specialized year-long integrative field seminar, as well as an experiential training opportunities that prepare students to implement behavioral health interventions and participate effectively on interprofessional teams. The competing continuation will also enable us to continue to provide at least 12 (i.e., four per year) synchronous trainings and online asynchronous trainings for faculty from psychology, medicine, public health, and other disciplines in best practices in integrated behavioral care for prevention and treatment of SUDs. We will complete an annual high-quality comprehensive program evaluation to ensure the continued effectiveness of our training program, and we will follow trainees over time to demonstrate that we are placing program graduates in medically underserved communities (MUCs) in order to deliver critical behavioral health services to those who need them most.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $450,000 )
2025	2025	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA	1600 HAMPTON ST	COLUMBIA	SC	29208	RICHLAND	USA	Graduate Psychology Education	00	4	6/12/2025	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$450,000
														Subtotal = $450,000

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $465,218 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA	1600 HAMPTON ST	COLUMBIA	SC	29208	RICHLAND	USA	Graduate Psychology Education	01	3	8/15/2024	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$15,218
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA	1600 HAMPTON ST	COLUMBIA	SC	29208	RICHLAND	USA	Graduate Psychology Education	00	3	6/5/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$450,000
2024	2023	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA	1600 HAMPTON ST # 414	COLUMBIA	SC	29208	RICHLAND	USA	Graduate Psychology Education	01	2	3/5/2024	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$0
														Subtotal = $465,218

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $478,968 )
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA	1600 HAMPTON ST # 414	COLUMBIA	SC	29208	RICHLAND	USA	Graduate Psychology Education	00	2	5/24/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$478,968
														Subtotal = $478,968

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $450,000 )
2022	2022	University of South Carolina	1600 HAMPTON ST # 414	COLUMBIA	SC	29208	RICHLAND	USA	Graduate Psychology Education	00	1	5/26/2022	NEW	$450,000
														Subtotal = $450,000

Grand Total All Awards = $1,844,186

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Graduate Psychology Education Programs

Award Number: D4045690

ORGANIZATION: BUREAU OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS

OPDIV: HRSA

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 07/01/2022

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2028

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