| Agency Description This budget request provides $887,865 in the FY 2025 and $857,865 in the second year to establish formal partnerships between academic institutions and the DBHDS state operated facilities to serve as clinical training sites for medical residents, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other licensed mental health professionals. This request is part of a package of requests that includes agencies 720 and 792. This request is for items in agency 792 totaling $741,989. The rest of the funds are in a request in 720.
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| Consequences of not funding/Justification One-time funding of $30,000 in FY 2025 and ongoing support of $857,865 to establish and support formal partnerships between academic institutions and three DBHDS state-operated facilities to serve as clinical training sites for medical residents, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other licensed mental health professionals. Academic institutions that train behavioral health professionals report challenges with having access to adequate clinical space and obtaining enough clinical faculty to support the educational needs of their students and/or to grow their programs to support the high demand for behavioral health services.
Increasing access to clinical training sites and clinical faculty/preceptors will allow more BH students to complete the clinical requirements for academic programs that lead to licensure, thus growing the BH workforce pipeline. Due to the high number of patient encounters and administrative burden related to documentation, referrals, admissions, discharges, and other processes, combined with the limited number of clinical personnel available to address client needs, licensed providers need to be incentivized to take on the additional duty of supervising a student or pre-licensure candidate as it adds a time-consuming element to provider’s schedule. |
| Explanations and Methodologies
Item
Description
FY 25 – FY26
Environmental modifications and Supplies for up to 3 additional sites
Required workspace needs for clinical trainees.
$30,000 (one time)
Clinical trainee Recruitment
Advertising and interviewing of prospective candidates.
$7,500 (ongoing)
Technological Support
Laptops, Vita support, state cell phones for clinical trainees
$20,000 (ongoing)
Trainee Educational Support
Books, Scholarly subscriptions, conferences, professional development, scholarly activities.
$10,000 (ongoing)
Academic Faculty at State Facilities
Up to 15% Salary increase per physician or Licensed Individual Practitioner identified as faculty, based on teaching and academic productivity time, training associated committee, supervision, and scholarly activity. The cost covers 15 faculty across 3 additional sites
$640,582 (ongoing)
Central Office Clinical Training Director
Salary and fringe for a clinical training director at DBHDS Central Office coordinate requirements between academic institutions and state facilities, establishing MOUs or contracts, and facilitating job placement in the public mental health system post-training.
$145,876 (ongoing)
Administrative Support
20% salary increase for clinical services administrative manager to include critical clinical site coordinator function to coordinate requirements between academic institutions and the state facility for up to 3 additional sites and contracting costs.
$33,907 (ongoing)
TOTAL
$887,865
Role
Average Role Compensation
Cost of Salary Increase
Total Cost with Fringe
Number of Positions
Total Cost
Academic Faculty (MD/NP/PA)
$227,435
$34,115
$42,705
15
$640,582
Administrative Support (AOS III)
$45,144
$9,029
$11,302
3
$33,907
Position
Salary
Fringe
Non Personnel
Total
Central Office Clinical Training Director
$100,000
$40,876
$5,000
$145,876
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