Next Generation Partnership Project Stipend

This workforce development initiative focuses on enhancing the education and inter-professional training of MSW students who are committed to providing improved integrated behavioral health services to vulnerable populations, with an emphasis on children, adolescents, and transitional-aged youth (CATAY). The goal is to expose students to the best evidence-based, strengths-based practice models in integrated behavioral health, and to provide students an understanding of recovery and its potential to transform behavioral health services.

Stipend Amount

A one-year stipend of $10,000 for second-year MSW students.

About the Project

Please carefully review the Next Generation Partnership Project Information Sheet for more details.

Eligibility Criteria

The stipend is available to second-year MSW students, including those from the Virtual Academic Center (VAC), who graduate in the spring (ideally) or summer semester and who are committed to providing integrated behavioral health services focused on the needs of children, adolescents, and transitional age youth (CATAY) in high need communities. Recipients of this stipend must be placed in a qualified practicum placement serving CATAY clients. NGPP requires recipients to participate in a series of specialized training sessions, maintain good academic standing (including practicum education), and pass specific elective courses along with other stipend requirements.

Although the goal is for stipend recipients to work with the target population upon graduation, there is no mandated “employment-payback” requirement. This stipend is funded by a federal grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration through its Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program.

For more information, campus-based students should contact Associate Teaching Professor Umeka Franklin. VAC students should contact Assistant Teaching Professor Jenebah Lewis.