OpportunityTitle: Provider&#8217;s Clinical Support System &#8211; Universities Grants
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligible applicants are medical schools, physician assistant schools, and schools of nursing (programs for nurse practitioners will be focus). PCSS-Universities grantees that received an award in FY 2018 under announcement TI-18-014 are not eligible to apply for this program.
Description: The Substance Abuse andMental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance AbuseTreatment (CSAT), isaccepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2019 Provider&#8217;s Clinical SupportSystem &#8211; Universities (Short Title: PCSS-Universities) grants. The purpose of this program is toexpand/enhance access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services forpersons with an opioid use disorder (OUD) seeking or receiving MAT throughensuring the education and training of students in the medical, physicianassistant and nurse practitioner fields. This program&#8217;s focus is to ensure students fulfill the trainingrequirements needed to obtain a DATA waiver to prescribe MAT in office-basedsettings. The desired outcomes include: 1) an increase in the number of individuals completing the trainingrequirements for the DATA waiver, 2) an increase the number of individuals witha DATA waiver, and 3) an ultimate increase in those prescribing.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: FOACSAT@samhsa.hhs.gov
GrantorContactText: Eileen Bermudez &lt;br/&gt;(240) 276-1412