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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§290ll Fellowships

Title 42 › CHAPTER 6A — PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER III–A — SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION › Part K — Minority Fellowship Program › § 290ll

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must create and run a Minority Fellowship Program that gives fellowships, sometimes with small stipends, to train more mental health and addiction professionals to serve people from racial and ethnic minority groups. The goal is to boost provider knowledge about diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and recovery, improve care quality, and increase culturally competent teachers, researchers, and direct-service workers. The fellowships pay for graduate training (master’s and doctoral) in fields like psychiatry, addiction medicine, nursing, social work, psychology, and counseling. The law allows $25,000,000 for each fiscal year 2023 through 2027.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §290ll

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)In general
The Secretary shall maintain a program, to be known as the Minority Fellowship Program, under which the Secretary shall award fellowships, which may include stipends, for the purposes of— (1)
(2)improving the quality of mental and substance use disorder prevention and treatment services delivered to racial and ethnic minority populations; and
(3)increasing the number of culturally competent mental and substance use disorders professionals who teach, administer services, conduct research, and provide direct mental or substance use disorder services to racial and ethnic minority populations.
(b)Training covered
The fellowships awarded under subsection (a) shall be for postbaccalaureate training (including for master’s and doctoral degrees) for mental and substance use disorder treatment professionals, including in the fields of psychiatry, addiction medicine, nursing, social work, psychology, marriage and family therapy, mental health counseling, and substance use disorder and addiction counseling.
(c)Authorization of appropriations
To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027.

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2025—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 119–44, § 202(1), inserted “diagnosis,” after “related to”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 119–44, § 202(2), inserted “addiction medicine,” after “psychiatry,”. 2022—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 117–328 substituted “$25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027” for “$12,669,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 through 2022”.

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42 U.S.C. § 290ll

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110