Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
63 University of North Texas (141951)
Principal Investigator: Ruggero,Camilo
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 1,165,760
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 7/1/22 - 6/30/27
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Psychology
Department, Center, School, or Institute: College of Lib Arts & Soc Sci
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: North Texas Center of Excellence for Redressing Health Service Psychology Disparities
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
Health Resources & Service Administratio
CFDA Link: HHS
93.157
Program Title:
none
CFDA Linked: Centers of Excellence
Note:
Restricted Research. PI noted the grant is classified as research - Justification: under training of individuals in CFR Title 2, Part 200, research techniques where such activities utilize the same facilities as other research and development activities and where such activities are not included in the instruction function..."). Our model of training is variably referred to as "scientist-practitioner" or "clinical scientist" in the applicable literature to get at this issue. The North Texas Center of Excellence (COE) for Redressing Health Service Psychology (HSP) Disparities establishes a Hispanic COE in behavioral and mental health at the University of North Texas (UNT), a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and one of the nation’s most diverse universities, serving over 10,000 Hispanic and 6,000 African American/Black students (total enrollment >42,000). The North Texas COE project meets all thresholds for designation as a Hispanic COE in behavioral health (Attachment 5), including significant Hispanic doctoral enrollment (i.e., 18.7% past 3 years vs national Hispanic HSP provider rate of 5%), graduation (16.67% past 3 years), recruitment outreach (e.g., annual graduate fairs, >1900 emails and >300 face-to-face outreach, 21 funded undergraduate fellowships, and 19 workshops), 100% retention of URM doctoral students (e.g. 23 URM/disadvantaged HSP doctoral funding lines) and major efforts to recruit and retain Hispanic faculty (e.g., in-person MSI recruitment visits, hosting bilingual faculty visits, talks to training directors nationally). Our team is well positioned to lead the COE: directors have a strong record of combatting disparities in North Texas and are experts in HSP workforce diversification and training (e.g., Callahan…Ruggero, 2018; Callahan, Neumann, Cox, & Ruggero, 2017; Dimmick & Callahan, 2021) while national partners are among the nation’s major HSP training and licensure stakeholders and regional partners provide high quality interdisciplinary training in North Texas’ most underserved hotspots. Against this backdrop, the North Texas COE will: 1) Strengthen the HSP workforce across North Texas, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Region 6 (Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and 68 tribes) and beyond through national partnerships (Goal 1, Objectives 1-3) 2) Combat disparities in the HSP training-to-workforce pipeline through intensive recruitment outreach and education (Goal 2, Objectives 1-3) 3) Provide technical assistance supporting Spanish-language behavioral health while partnering with the largest clinics in North Texas for experiential training, infusing curricula materials, and creating pathways into faculty ranks (Goal 3, Objectives 1-4) 4) Seed minority health research locally, regionally, and nationally (Goal 4, Objs.1-2).
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