---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 290ll"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "290ll"
heading: "Fellowships"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/290ll"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III–A — Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration"
  - "Part K — Minority Fellowship Program"
---

# §290ll. Fellowships

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall maintain a [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4), to be known as the [Minority](/usc/42/299a–1.md?p=d-2) [Fellowship](/usc/42/1862n–1.md?p=i-3) [Program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4), under which the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall award [fellowships](/usc/42/1862n–1.md?p=i-3), which may include stipends, for the purposes of—
  - (1) increasing the knowledge of mental and substance use disorders [practitioners](/usc/42/1395a.md?p=b-6-C) on issues related to diagnosis, prevention, [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11), and recovery support for individuals who are from [racial and ethnic minority populations](/usc/42/295p.md?p=25) and who have a mental or substance use disorder;
  - (2) improving the quality of mental and substance use disorder prevention and [treatment services](/usc/42/300x–34.md?p=7) delivered to [racial and ethnic minority populations](/usc/42/295p.md?p=25); and
  - (3) increasing the number of culturally competent mental and substance use disorders professionals who teach, administer [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a), conduct research, and provide direct mental or [substance use disorder services](/usc/42/290cc–34.md?p=4) to [racial and ethnic minority populations](/usc/42/295p.md?p=25).
- (b) **Training covered—** The [fellowships](/usc/42/1862n–1.md?p=i-3) awarded under [subsection (a)](#a) shall be for postbaccalaureate [training](/usc/42/285e–2.md?p=b-2) (including for master’s and doctoral degrees) for mental and substance use disorder [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) professionals, including in the fields of psychiatry, addiction medicine, nursing, social work, psychology, marriage and [family](/usc/42/290ff–4.md?p=d-2) 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.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title V, § 597, as added Pub. L. 114–255, div. B, title IX, § 9024, Dec. 13, 2016, 130 Stat. 1253; amended Pub. L. 117–328, div. FF, title I, § 1312, Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5697; Pub. L. 119–44, title II, § 202, Dec. 1, 2025, 139 Stat. 680.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

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”.