Notice2025-15033
Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Program
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Published
August 7, 2025
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
Abstract
HRSA is announcing supplemental funding for 19 PMHCA (U4A) award recipients to continue to address the national surge in behavioral health needs among children and adolescents. These supplemental awards, funded through fiscal year (FY) 2025 appropriations, will ensure consistent support across all 29 PMHCA recipients. While 10 recipients previously received forward funding of supplemental funds, 19 did not due to availability of funds; this supplemental funding will bring parity across the program. HRSA previously provided supplemental funding to these 19 recipients for similar activities in FY 2023 and FY 2024. With this support, recipients will continue to enhance the behavioral health workforce capacity in pediatric primary care, school settings, and emergency departments to address the growing behavioral health needs among children and adolescents.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 150 (Thursday, August 7, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38164-38165]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-15033]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Program
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Announcing supplements for Pediatric Mental Health Care Access
Program (PMHCA) award recipients to continue expansion activities and
ensure consistent funding is offered across all award recipients.
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SUMMARY: HRSA is announcing supplemental funding for 19 PMHCA (U4A)
award recipients to continue to address the national surge in
behavioral health needs among children and adolescents. These
supplemental awards, funded through fiscal year (FY) 2025
appropriations, will ensure consistent support across all 29 PMHCA
recipients. While 10 recipients previously received forward funding of
supplemental funds, 19 did not due to availability of funds; this
supplemental funding will bring parity across the program. HRSA
previously provided supplemental funding to these 19 recipients for
similar activities in FY 2023 and FY 2024. With this support,
recipients will continue to enhance the behavioral health workforce
capacity in pediatric primary care, school settings, and emergency
departments to address the growing behavioral health needs among
children and adolescents.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lauren Ramos, Director of Division of
Maternal and Child Health Workforce Development, Health Resources and
Services Administration, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#24485645494b57644c5657450a434b52"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3d514f5c50524e7d554f4e5c135a524b">[email protected]</span></a> or 301-443-6091.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Intended Recipient(s) of the Award: Nineteen
PMHCA award recipients will be eligible to receive supplemental awards
to continue to address the national surge in behavioral health needs
among children and adolescents. These award recipients are listed in
Table 1. Note: These 19 PMHCA award recipients received $115,291 of
total available funds for this funding action in January 2025. HRSA
will award the remaining $139,709 available for the funding action upon
the publishing of this Federal Register notice. A statutory requirement
at 42 U.S.C. 254c-19(f) (Sec. 330M(f) of the Public Health Service
Act) requires that PMHCA award recipients match federal funding with a
20 percent non-federal match.
Amount of Non-Competitive Award(s): Total $2,654,471 for 19 awards
(average $139,709 per award).
Project Period: September 30, 2025, to September 29, 2026.
Assistance Listing Number: 93.110.
Award Instrument: Non-competitive Supplement for Services.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 254c-19 (Sec. 330M of the Public Health
Service Act).
Table 1--19 U4A Recipients and Award Amounts
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Supplement/
increase to Total funding
Original award Organization name base for 19 (Federal + non-
number U4A PMHCA Federal)
awardees
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U4AMC53375........ My Health Resources $139,709 $167,651
of Tarrant County.
U4AMC53368........ Kentucky Cabinet for 139,709 167,651
Health and Family
Services.
U4AMC53366........ West Virginia 139,709 167,651
Department of
Health and Human
Resources.
U4AMC53370........ New Mexico 139,709 167,651
Department of
Health.
U4AMC53373........ Indiana Family and 139,709 167,651
Social Services
Administration.
U4AMC53377........ Republic Of Palau... 139,709 167,651
U4AMC53379........ Red Lake Band of 139,709 167,651
Chippewa Indians.
U4AMC53384........ Virgin Islands 139,709 167,651
Department of
Health Group.
U4AMC53361........ Illinois Department 139,709 167,651
of Public Health.
U4AMC53359........ Commonwealth 139,709 167,651
Healthcare
Corporation.
U4AMC53376........ Oklahoma Department 139,709 167,651
of Mental Health
and Substance Abuse
Services.
U4AMC53374........ Minnesota Department 139,709 167,651
of Health.
U4AMC53358........ Chickasaw Nation.... 139,709 167,651
U4AMC53372........ Vermont Agency of 139,709 167,651
Human Services.
U4AMC53381........ South Carolina 139,709 167,651
Department of
Mental Health.
U4AMC53382........ Tennessee Department 139,709 167,651
of Health.
U4AMC53369........ Louisiana Department 139,709 167,651
of Health.
U4AMC54741........ Wyoming Department 139,709 167,651
of Health.
U4AMC53364........ FSM Department of 139,709 167,651
Health and Social
Affairs.
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Purpose/Justification: HRSA is issuing non-competitive supplemental
funds in FY 2025 for 19 PMHCA award recipients to continue to address
behavioral health needs among children and adolescents. HRSA provided
Bipartisan Safer Communities Act emergency expansion awards in FY 2022
to 29 PMHCA U4A award recipients to expand PMHCA services to new
providers and practices and to school-based and emergency department
settings. In FY 2023, 10 PMHCA award recipients received 36 months of
forward funding of supplemental funds to continue expansion activities
for the remaining period of performance (September 30, 2023, to
September 29, 2026). One award recipient received 12 months of forward
funding of supplemental funds for the same purpose for FY 2023
(September 30, 2023, to September 29, 2024). Forward funding of
supplemental
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funds was offered to these recipients with the intent to offer the
remaining 19 PMHCA award recipients with the same level of funding
through annual supplements in FY 2024 and FY 2025.
HRSA will offer supplemental funding for all 29 PMHCA U4A current
award recipients in a manner that ensures all 29 award recipients are
offered the same total amount of funding over a 3-year timeframe. If
PMHCA current award recipients decline supplemental funding, that
declined funding will be distributed among remaining recipients as
allowable. The intended date of supplemental funding is September 30,
2025, to September 29, 2026, which falls within the current period of
performance. In FY 2025, annual appropriation funds for PMHCA award
recipients will be tracked separately from concurrent PMHCA awards.
PMHCA program award recipients will continue to expand the reach
and capacity of PMHCA programs started in FY 2022 to provide training
and tele-consult support to pediatric primary care providers and
providers in other settings, including emergency departments and
educational agencies and schools. The above activities are within the
original scope of the PMHCA program (HRSA-22-121, and HRSA-21-122).
Thomas J. Engels,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2025-15033 Filed 8-6-25; 8:45 am]
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