Graduate Psychology Education Programs
Project Description:
This grant provides three years of funding that will expand training of 10 first-year psychology post-docs through partnership with UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Training Program and create service/training rotations targeting homeless women and children (in partnership with Good Shepherd Center) and American Indian communities (in partnership with United Indian Involvement). The grant capitalizes upon CHLA Behavioral Health initiatives to expand behavioral health services throughout the hospital and expands psychology fellow rotations to serve CHLAs Pain Medicine, Sickle Cell and Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine substance abuse treatment and prevention services.
In addition, the grant, developed with the support of the CHLA Innovation Studio, will launch new training and infrastructural support for the deployment of telebehavioral health services at CHLA which will create, promote and maintain access to behavioral health services through technology. Over the grants three-year cycle, 30 psychology fellows will gain competence in the provision of integrated, team-based trauma-informed OUD/SUD services, and these fellows, their supervisors and all CHLA behavioral health clinicians will have expanded capacity to deliver telebehavioral health service. This proposal has the potential to significantly impact the practice competencies of psychologists and trainees from multiple disciplines, improve the provision of OUD/SUD services to pediatric populations, improve access to care through telebehavioral health, and will ultimately improve the quality of health in the communities CHLA serves.
Keyword(s):
behavioral health, opioid use disorder, substance use disorder, telehealth
Core Function(s):
Training Trainees, Performing Direct and/or Demonstration Services, Performing Research or Evaluation, Continuing Education/Community Training, Demonstration Services
Area of Emphasis
Education & Early Intervention, Health-Related Activities
Target Audience:
Students/Trainees (long or intermediate trainees), Professionals and Para-Professionals, Children/Adolescents with Disabilities/SHCN
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Disadvantaged Circumstances, Limited English, Geographic Areas, Reservation, Rural/Remote, Urban
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
Mulit-County
COVID-19 Related Data:
N/A
