Funding a behavioral-health workforce? We turn trained clinicians into licensed ones.
Your grant recruits and trains clinicians — but they only strengthen the workforce once they pass the national licensure exam. Triad is the exam-prep partner for grant-funded programs: cohort-based prep for LCSW/ASWB, LPC-LMHC, psychology (EPPP), and MFT that converts trainees into licensed, billable clinicians.
The bottleneck isn’t recruitment or training dollars — it’s the exam.
Grant funds pay to recruit and train. Then candidates hit the national exam alone — many stall for months or fail, and the workforce dollars never convert into a licensed, billable clinician. Exam prep is the lowest-cost, highest-conversion dollar in the whole pipeline.
Cohort exam prep, built for grant-funded programs
Every behavioral-health license
Exam prep for LCSW/ASWB, LPC-LMHC (NCE/NCMHCE), psychologist (EPPP), and MFT — one partner, every track.
Pass Guarantee
If a candidate completes the program and doesn’t pass, access extends through the next attempt at no cost.
More than a book
Live expert coaching, adaptive practice, and full-length blueprint-aligned exams — paced across the grant window.
Built for funders
Co-branded with your program and funder; FERPA-aligned monthly cohort reporting with intervention triggers.
Simple to administer
One invoice, net-30. Bulk codes issued and redeemed individually; unused seats reallocate within the grant period.
Write us into your grant
HRSA — BHWET & GPE
The Notice of Funding Opportunity explicitly permits “licensure preparation training materials” as an allowable cost. (The exam fee itself is not allowable — the prep materials are.)
SAMHSA — CCBHC
The FY2026 Notices of Funding Opportunity name “support for staff to obtain licensure” and continuing education as allowable workforce costs.
State & foundation grants
Exam prep fits inside “training,” “workforce development,” or “reduce barriers to licensure” allowable categories — we help you word the budget line.
Position exam prep as a line item in the workforce budget — not the exam registration. We give your grant writers the exact language, so Triad is written in before the award.
Document need in your county
HRSA and SAMHSA reviewers expect a needs statement backed by federal data. Pick a county to see its numbers, then unlock a copy-ready paragraph with every figure cited.
Get the needs statement
One paragraph with sources, ready to paste into your application. Enter your work email to unlock it; one email unlocks every county.
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Needs statement
Data: CDC PLACES county estimates (2025 release), HRSA mental health shortage designations (pulled October 8, 2026), BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025), CDC National Health Interview Survey. All federal, public domain. State-by-state workforce data →
Programs already converting cohorts into licensed clinicians
NSU / Rapides Foundation
A cohort of licensure candidates across multi-year rounds — the foundation’s RFA named AATBS as the preferred exam-prep partner.
Ballmer Group
Funding behavioral-health workforce and licensure-readiness programs at CSUDH, Cal State LA, and UCLA to expand the clinician pipeline.
NYC Health + Hospitals
Buys ASWB exam prep for 1,000+ social workers advancing from LMSW to LCSW.
If you fund or run a clinician pipeline, we plug in
Universities and schools of social work, counseling & psychology · CCBHCs and community mental health agencies · state behavioral-health & Medicaid workforce programs · regional health foundations · workforce boards · union and labor-management training funds. Wherever grant money is moving a cohort toward licensure, Triad supplies the last mile.
Building a grant-funded workforce program?
Let’s talk about your cohort — pass-rate lift, the outcomes you can report to your funder, and the allowable-cost language to put in your application.
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