§ 21-44-6-5 — Duties of board

The purpose of the board is to do the following:
(1) To establish and oversee a loan forgiveness program designed
to increase the number of professional mental health care
providers, including addiction health care professionals, in areas
with health professional shortages, as determined by the board, by
assisting professionals in the following occupational categories to
pay off loans incurred in the training needed to practice in
Indiana:
(A) Psychiatrists.
(B) Addiction psychiatrists, including psychiatrists pursuing
fellowship training and certification in addiction psychiatry.
(C) Psychologists.
(D) Psychiatric nurses.
(E) Addiction counselors.
(F) Mental health professionals.
(2) To establish and oversee an integrated behavioral health and
addiction treatment development program to attract and train
psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, addiction
counselors, or mental health professionals who will engage in the
practice of integrated behavioral health and addiction treatment
in:
(A) state mental health institutions;
(B) community mental health centers;
(C) state funded addiction treatment centers; or
(D) other behavioral health and addiction treatment settings
determined by the board to be mental health and addiction dual
diagnoses treatment settings.
(3) To develop and oversee an integrated behavioral health and
addiction treatment training track program through the Indiana
University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
residency training program. The training track program must
provide an opportunity for residents to work in mental health and
addiction dual diagnoses treatment settings, including:
(A) state psychiatric hospitals;
(B) community mental health centers;
(C) state funded addiction treatment centers; or
(D) other behavioral health and addiction treatment settings
determined by the board to be mental health and addiction dual
diagnoses treatment settings.
(4) To develop standards for participation in the training track
program that include:
(A) guidelines for the amounts of grants and other assistance a
participant receives;
(B) guidelines for the type of training in integrated behavioral
health and addiction treatment the participant receives;
(C) guidelines for agreements with mental health hospitals,
community mental health centers, and other entities
participating in the training track program; and
(D) other guidelines and standards necessary for governing the
training track program.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.170-2009, SEC.9. Amended by P.L.142-2014, SEC.6; P.L.209-2015, SEC.17.