The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a Project Grant of $600,000 for Year 1 and $500,000 for Year 2 to Valley Professionals Community Health Center, Inc. under the Community Health Centers program (CFDA 93.224). The funding will allow Valley Professionals Community Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center, to expand behavioral health services and increase access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment, including medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder, in their rural, underserved service area in West-Central Indiana. Specifically, the project will support hiring four full-time behavioral health providers, one psychiatry provider, one behavioral health assistant, one psychiatry nurse, and two case managers to increase therapy, psychiatry, and school-based services, as well as strengthen care coordination and patient management. This expansion aims to optimize the number of patients receiving mental health and substance use disorder services, addressing gaps in access and barriers to care for the target population of low-income, underserved rural and urban residents and students.