CSWE MFP-Youth Master’s Fellowship

Minority Fellowship Program-Youth (MFP-Y) for master’s students graduating with an MSW in 2017 (so graduating BASW students entering the Advanced Standing Program AND Students who are currently in their first year of the MSW program.)

Deadline will be in Spring, but you may want to review eligibility now.

The MFP-Y fellowship is designed to enhance the training of full-time, direct-practice focused, master’s social work students in the final year of study at a CSWE-accredited program (graduating between May-December 2017). The program is funded by SAMHSA and aims to reduce health disparities and improve behavioral health-care outcomes for racially and ethnically diverse populations by increasing the number of culturally competent master’s-level behavioral health professionals serving children, adolescents, and transition-age youths.

Fellowship recipients receive a 1-year fellowship that includes specialized training on mental health issues related to the target population, professional development supports, and a monetary stipend (the 2015-2016 stipend amount is $6,500).

Looking for current final-year BSW students applying for the MSW Advanced Standing program and/or current first-year MSW students. Fellowship’s key requirements so that eligible students can be most competitive in the applicant pool:

• Applicants must identify mental health service delivery to at-risk children, adolescents, and/or transition age youths (16–25) as their focus;
• applicants must have completed/be enrolled in at least two advanced social work master’s courses, in one or more of the following categories: (a) mental health and/or co-occurring substance abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery; (b) culturally competent evidence-based practices; or (c) services for children, adolescents, and/or transition-age youths;

• during the fellowship period, applicants must be in an internship/placement setting that provides the opportunity to deliver behavioral health services to the target population; and

• applicants must be committed to seeking employment in behavioral health with the target population immediately after graduation.

Complete eligibility information and application materials for 2016-2017 will be posted on the MFP-Y “How to Apply” webpage in spring 2016. In the meantime, students can refer to this page for eligibility criteria related to the 2015–2016 cycle, though these are subject to change.

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