Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Program (PMHCA)
This cooperative agreement funds states, local governments, and tribal entities to provide pediatric mental health tele-consultation, training, and care coordination support for primary care providers.
RESTRICTED TO: STATE LOCAL GOV · TRIBAL ENTITIES
⚑ Cooperative agreement · Direct applicants limited to state, county, city, township, special district, and tribal governments/organizations; public universities are not eligible as direct applicants · Funds tele-consultation access, training, and care coordination support rather than research
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 15 none | university cannot apply directly (ineligible) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 15 none | university cannot apply directly (ineligible) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 10 none | deep-tech content; no commercialization signal |
Description
The Pediatric Mental Health Care Access (PMHCA) program helps improve mental and behavioral health for children and youth by giving pediatric primary care providers quick access to tele-consultation, training, and care coordination support.
Eligibility
These types of domestic* organizations may apply: State, county, city, township, and special district governments, including the District of Columbia, domestic territories, and freely associated statesNative American tribal governmentsNative American tribal organizations* "Domestic" means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
Apply
View on Grants.gov → CONTACT: Health Resources and Services Administration <MCHBPMHCANOFO@hrsa.gov>
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Legacy IPPRA LLM assessment (v2.0, for comparison)
18/100 · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-06
This is a pediatric mental health access and care-coordination program, which is adjacent to IPPRA’s public health interests but is primarily a service-delivery/cooperative-agreement effort rather than a research opportunity. It does not center on survey research, behavioral intervention evaluation, or policy analysis in a way that would make IPPRA a lead or anchor applicant. Eligibility also appears limited to governments and tribal entities, so a public university would not be eligible to apply directly.
Legacy scoring history
| 2026-07-06 | 18 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is a pediatric mental health access and care-coordination program, which is adjacent to IPPRA’s public health interests but is primarily a service-delivery/cooperative-agreement effort rather than a research opportunity. It does not center on survey research, behavioral intervention evaluation, or policy analysis in a way that would make IPPRA a lead or anchor applicant. Eligibility also appears limited to governments and tribal entities, so a public university would not be eligible to apply directly. |
| 2026-07-06 | 14 | gpt-5.4-mini | This program is about pediatric mental health access, tele-consultation, and care coordination, which sits within public health but is primarily a service-delivery cooperative agreement rather than a research opportunity. IPPRA’s behavioral and communication expertise could be tangentially relevant for evaluation or training support, but the opportunity does not center on policy research or social science. Eligibility is limited to government and tribal entities, so a public university like OU would not be eligible to apply directly. |