Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program - Behavioral health services for children and adolescents are limited across the United States. Northern California, a region covering roughly 66,000 square miles and containing more than 15 million people, is largely rural with a sociodemographically varied and highly dispersed population. The region contains a high concentration of disadvantaged communities in addition to highly advantaged communities, emphasizing regional inequities in access to care. Families often struggle to identify well-trained behavioral health providers, and many in underserved communities travel hundreds of miles to access evidence-based services. Long waitlists are common and contribute to delayed diagnosis and treatment. Accessing these services is even more challenging for families with limited resources, who experience language barriers, or who reside in rural areas. These factors maintain current health inequities which can be even more pronounced for children with co-occurring neurodevelopmental disabilities. The MIND Institute’s Clinical Psychology Predoctoral Internship Program seeks to train child and adolescent psychologists who will provide care to children in underserved communities and who are equipped to collaborate with a range of health care providers. The program recently received accreditation by the American Psychological Association and is now well-positioned to expand with support of a HRSA BHWET grant. Through this project, we will target several unmet needs, including limited access to evidence-based early detection and intervention for child behavioral health concerns, regional provider shortages, fragmented and siloed service-delivery models, and limited access to care for under resourced and geographically isolated communities. To address these needs, we will expand our training to include delivery of services in the primary care, community, school, and home (via telehealth) settings, further increasing behavioral health access and reducing barriers for youth and families. Training will occur through didactics, clinical supervision, and clinical experience in evidence-based assessment and intervention within the MIND Institute’s Massie Family Clinic and across four new community partner sites (Northern Valley Indian Health, Pediatric Mobile Clinic, Integrated Primary Care, Far Northern Regional Center). Interns will be embedded within interprofessional clinical teams, providing extensive experience with interdisciplinary learning and provision of behavioral health services across service delivery models (e.g., traditional, mobile, telehealth). The program will also provide specific training to pediatric residents and developmental-behavioral pediatrics fellows, as well as evidence-based interprofessional training for clinical supervisors and practitioners at our new community partner sites. By further integrating our program with a number of currently-funded and complementary training programs housed at the MIND Institute (e.g., MCHB/HRSA-funded LEND program, HRSA-funded UCEDD, MCHB-funded Training Program for Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics) and establishing an infrastructure that supports new partnerships between the MIND Institute, UC Davis Children’s Hospital Specialists (e.g., Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics), and local-regional community and educational agencies, combined with a focus on high-quality, evidence-based, interdisciplinary training, the expanded program will increase the supply of a diverse behavioral health workforce trained to provide integrated behavioral health care and committed to working in this high-need and high-demand region. We are requesting consideration under Funding Preference Qualification 3, New Program (see Attachment 8).