(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:

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(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.

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