Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)

HRSA - BHWET Grant Opportunity for Students!
In 2021 Molloy University’s CMHC Department was awarded a $1.16M federal grant from the HRSA Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program funded through the American Rescue Plan Act. C5: Changing Communities through Compassionate Counseling Children and Youth Program, with Dr. Laura B. Kestemberg as the Project Director. The HRSA grant awards 70 CMHC and PNMHP graduate students a $10, 000 stipend each during their internship placement when working with medically underserved populations and diverse youth.
Grant Goals
- Helping to decrease mental health shortages.
- Addressing environmental conditions that contribute to gaps in the delivery of mental health services to children, youth, and families.
- Establishing new collaborations and training sites among a diverse group of public and private providers
- Utilizing telehealth technology, distance learning opportunities, and remote clinician supervision to address gaps in the delivery of behavioral health services.
- Addressing the gaps in service to immigrant populations in NY.
- incorporating evidence-based practices and treatment models to address trauma related mental health issues.
- Addressing substance use disorder in the target population.
- Revising curriculum better suited to the target population and improving cultural sensitivity training.
- Attracting and training trainees from different racial, ethnic, cultural, geographic, gender, and sexual orientation backgrounds.
- Exposing CMHC students to working in Medically Underserved Communities (MUC)s, with interdisciplinary teams in integrated care settings.
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CMHC Student Opportunities
- $10K stipend when interning at a HRSA approved site
- Free access to BHWET trainings and workshops and Symposiums with nationally and internationally recognized experts in the mental health field
- Opportunities to complete internships in high need underresourced sites
- Opportunities to collaborate on trainings and workshops for the community and grant partners
- In addition to the student stipend awards, the HRSA grant provides salary support for faculty and staff, and funds to compensate clinical site facilitators to host and facilitate workshops and in-service training sessions on the mental health needs of diverse youth and their families.
- Collaboration Opportunities with professionals and graduate students from other disciplines
HRSA Contact
Laura Kestemberg
Clinical Mental Health Department Molloy University
Nicole Lara
Clinical Mental Health Department Molloy University