Through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Helping to End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL) initiative seeks studies that identify, develop, and/or evaluate strategies to address challenges with recruiting, training, and retaining a robust and highly qualified behavioral health workforce. Strategies explored through this initiative should focus on increasing recruitment and retention, improving provider training, reducing stigma among providers, increasing access to care and number of patients served, improving quality of care, and/or improving patient outcomes.