The Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) recently announced the recipients of the Graduate Psychology Education Program (GPE) grants, which are administered by HRSA’s Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr).  Like most of the other programs in BHPr, the GPE program received $1.8 million flat-funding for FY 2007 in both the House and Senate Labor-Health & Human Services-Education Subcommittee bills (down from its highest level of $4.5 million in FY 2004 and 2005).  Out of 43 GPE proposals, 34 were approved for funding resulting in 18 grants being awarded for a three year period, based on score rankings until the funding ran out. These grants went to universities and medical institutions to train psychologists in mental and behavioral health to work with underserved persons in medically underserved areas.

Many of the grants will be used to provide resources for underserved ethnic minorities, mostly African American and Hispanic consumers. Some are specializing in children and adolescents while others are focusing on the family, the homeless, immigrants, or women. The grants are a mix of rural and urban settings and internship and doctoral programs. The following is a listing of GPE grants.

Graduate Psychology Education Program – FY 2007 Awards

Organization City State Award The Wright Institute; Gilbert Newman, Ph.D. Berkeley Calif. $93,289 University of Colorado at Denver & HSC; Deborah J. Seymour, Ph.D. Aurora Colo. $93,120 Yale University;Michele Goyette-Ewing, Ph.D. New Haven Conn. $106,989 Alfred I. Dupont Institute;William Douglas Tynan, Jr., Ph.D. Wilmington Del. $95,782 Howard University; Dominicus W. So, Ph.D. Washington D.C. $136,676 Medical College of Georgia, Research Institute Inc.; Paul Alexander Mabe, Ph.D. Augusta Ga. $89,906 University of Chicago; Maureen Ann Lacy, Ph.D. Chicago Ill. $104,113 Saint Louis University; Terri L. Weaver, Ph.D. St. Louis Mo. $91,158 Board of Regents/Univ of Nebraska Med Ctr; Joseph Henry Evans, Ph.D. Omaha Neb. $94,530 The Regents of New Mexico State University; Eve Adams, Ph.D. Las Cruces N.M. $110,200 Sunset Park Mental Health Center(Lutheran Medical Center); Carmen Rivera, Ph.D. Brooklyn N.Y. $90,000 University of Rochester Medical Center; Linda Jayne Alpert-Gillis, Ph.D. Rochester N.Y. $115,865 University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Susan Phillips Keane, Ph.D. Greensboro N.C. $147,344 University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; Barbara Bonner, Ph.D. Oklahoma City Okla. $92,002 The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Thomas Power, Ph.D. Philadelphia Pa. $91,821 Cherokee Health Systems; Parinda Khatri, Ph.D. Knoxville Tenn. $70,000 Eastern Virginia Medical School; Barbara Ann Cubic, Ph.D. Norfolk Va. $89,962 Marshall University Research Corporation; Marianna Footo-Linz, Ph.D. Huntington W.Va. $89,314 TOTAL:     $1,802,071

To see a more extensive description of each grant please visit:
 http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/medicine-dentistry/07abstracts/gradpsyched.htm

Contact:
Nina Levitt
American Psychological Association
202/336-6023 or
nlevitt@apa.org,
2007

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