10/03/2025
ASPIN is pleased to announce we have been awarded a $500,000 per year for four years from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to expand and enhance behavioral health workforce training across Indiana. 📢
This critical funding will support ASPIN’s Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program for Paraprofessionals (BPP), advancing the organization’s capacity to prepare Certified Community Health Workers (CCHWs) and/or Certified Community Health Workers/Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialists (CCHW/CPRSS) to meet growing needs across the state; especially in high-need, high-demand, and rural communities.
Through this grant, ASPIN will expand didactic training with a dedicated Youth Mental Health curriculum, including trauma-informed care, and increase hands-on, community-based experiential learning in partnership with organizations across the state. The program will strengthen competencies for working with children, adolescents, and transitional-age youth (TAY) who have experienced trauma and are at risk for behavioral health disorders, including anxiety, depression, and substance use disorder. Each year, 18 scholarships will be awarded for Level I (pre-service) training, resulting in 72 newly trained and certified CHWs or CCHW/CPRSS professionals over the four-year award period. ASPIN aims for at least 35% of Level I completers to advance to Level II (in-service) training, with seven students per year enrolling in ASPIN’s U.S. Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship Program, totaling 28 apprentices over the funding period. Graduates of the program will be prepared to provide support services to children, adolescents, transitional-age youth, and their families, particularly in underserved and rural areas.
Affiliated Service Providers of Indiana, Inc. (d.b.a. ASPIN) is a 501 (C) 3 not-for-profit network that operates four major service lines: third party administration, training and workforce development, health improvement, and grants management. The mission of ASPIN is to provide innovative educational programs, workforce development, network management, and collaborative program development with healthcare entities, member organizations, and partners. “Together, we aim to reduce health disparities, strengthen the healthcare workforce, and promote whole health management across communities.”
For more information about the BHWET Program or partnership opportunities, contact Keny Chapman at (317) 518-3077 or kchapman@aspin.org.
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