HRSA Project TeamUP

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Student Financial Support

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Student Stipends

Students completing their practicum or fieldwork year are eligible for one of our $25,000 Project TeamUP stipends. Interested students can complete applications in early Spring and notification of awards are sent out in early May. Stipend recipients are required to participate in a series of trainings and professional development opportunities, spread out over their practicum/fieldwork year that specifically tailored to the track they fall into.

Behavioral Health Workforce (BHW) stipend awards are distributed based on the following tracks:

  • Track A is for trainees who are providing services to services to Child and Adolescents (0 - 17) and/or Transitional Aged Youth (18 - 25) in English
  • Track B is for trainees who are providing services to services to Child and Adolescents (0 - 17) and/or Transitional Aged Youth (18 - 25) in a language other than English

We're excited to welcome our 2025-26 cohort of stipend recipients!

2024-2025 Stipend Recipients

Student Professional Development

Every year, Project TeamUP provides financial assistance to students interested in attending professional conferences linked to current HRSA priority areas. Past students have used funds to attend the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association Annual Conference to learn more about integrated behavioral health in primary care. Others have traveled to Minneapolis, MN to participate in a Narrative Exposure Therapy Training, an evidence-based intervention for refugees and immigrant communities who have experienced trauma.

Collaborative Family Healthcare Association Conference

CFHA 2024, San Antonio, Texas

CFHA 2023, Phoenix, Arizona

CFHA 2018, Rochester, NY

CFHA 2017, Houston, TX

Critical Issues in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Conference

2023

San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment

2025

2024

Other Conferences and Training Opportunities

International Vietnamese Mental Health Conference, 2024

Can We Talk? Conference - 2019

In June 2019, three students attended the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation's (BLHF) "Can We Talk?" Conference in Washington, D.C. with financial support from Project TeamUP.

This event focused on normalizing mental illness and improving access to mental health services in low-income African-American communities.

One of the students had this to say about their experience: "This was such an impactful experience for me! I learned so much on how to work with the Black/African American community in different capacities to help normalize the conversation of mental illness. The conference stressed the importance of multiculturalism and and how intersectionality plays a role in our mental health as well and how because of this, we need mental health professionals/providers to be culturally competent in order for the work to be beneficial."

Taraji P. Henson gave a keynote address to the conference attendees.

Students also had the opportunity to do some sight-seeing in the nation's capitol