Graduate Psychology Education Programs - Specific, measurable objectives that the project will accomplish: Due to the extensive need for behavioral health services in Harris County, the proposed project will meet five objectives: 1. Recruit four doctoral health service psychology interns in year 1, four in Year 2, four in Year 3 to receive training in experiential training sites that provide integrated, interdisciplinary behavioral health services in high need and high demand areas. 2. Ensure that at least twenty-five percent of the time in the experiential training sites for four interns is in the delivery of Opioids/Substance Use Disorder (SUD/OUD) prevention, treatment, and recovery services; 3. Provide enhanced didactic and experiential training activities to develop competencies of doctoral health service psychology interns, other discipline trainees, faculty, and staff to address the social determinants of health (SDOH), provider resiliency, trauma-informed care, OUD/SUD, and telehealth services; 4. Develop or expand at least one partnership to provide experiential training in a primary care setting, to create a pipeline of well-trained, culturally responsive health service psychologists committed to working in high need and high demand areas after graduation; 5.Use rapid cycle quality evaluation together with our outside evaluator, Clover Educational Consulting Group, to determine success in attaining our objectives and to identify areas in which improvements are needed. Clinical priorities to be addressed by the project: Telehealth/Telemedicine Behavioral Health, SUD/OUD Disorder, Other: Trauma informed care, Provider resiliency, SDOH, interdisciplinary team-based care, behavioral health needs of children, adolescents and transition age youth. How the proposed project will be accomplished: The UTHealth Doctoral Psychology Internship Program will offer four intern positions in Year 1, four in Year 2, and four in Year 3. These positions will be used to train interns experientially in integrated, interdisciplinary team-based care to address SDOH, provider resiliency, trauma-informed care, OUD/SUD, behavioral health needs of children, adolescents and transition age youth and telehealth delivery of services. To do this, the project team will partner with one or more primary care clinical centers in Harris County that serve underserved communities at high risk for SUD/OUD and trauma. We have already partnered with the UTHealth Family and Community Medicine clinic, which provides an integrated model of care in a primary care setting, and the UTHealth Neurology Stroke Clinic, which provides primary care to children, adolescents and transition age youth with stroke. We will further develop these partnerships to improve training for interns, and we will initiate a new partnership with another primary care site. The team will also leverage existing resources to train interns in these areas, including our inpatient rotations, our Addictions/Community rotation, and our Trauma rotation, all of which provide clinical training experiences relevant to the aims of the grant. Interns will deliver services to patients in our partner organizations by telehealth or in person. Additionally, they will provide consultation to physician teams and trainees in other disciplines. Interns will receive didactic training in the areas of focus of this project together with trainees, faculty, and staff from other disciplines. To provide didactic training, we will revise and expand current didactic offerings addressing the areas of focus for this grant and will also develop and implement one conference per year on one or more of these areas. Funding Preference: We meet the funding preference criteria.
