The Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) provides federally funded training fellowships for mental health professionals from racial and ethnic minority communities, helping grow the pipeline of providers serving underserved populations. Currently the program covers specialties like psychiatry but does not explicitly include addiction medicine. This bill adds addiction medicine to the list of eligible specialties, allowing MFP fellowship awards to support professionals training to diagnose and treat substance use disorders. As addiction and opioid crises continue to affect communities across the country — often hitting minority communities hardest — expanding this fellowship program could help address provider shortages in underserved areas.
Congressional Summary
Improving Access to Addiction Medicine Providers ActThis bill provides statutory authority for the Minority Fellowship Program to include fellowships for training in the field of addiction medicine. (The Minority Fellowship Program, administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, funds fellowships for individuals seeking graduate degrees and planning to work on addressing mental or substance use disorders in racial and ethnic minority populations.)
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in Senate
- Action Date
- 2025-03-13
- Date Added
- 2026-06-25
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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