Mental Health Clinical Fellowship

This program addresses the inadequate supply of child and adolescent mental health professionals in Lancaster County. Thanks in part to a generous grant from the Steinman Foundation, this is funded for 3 years (through 2025).

Building Capacity for Youth Mental Health

Mental Health Clinical Fellowship
This program addresses the inadequate supply of child and adolescent mental health professionals in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Thanks in part to a generous grant from The Steinman Foundation, this is funded for 3 years through 2025. Master’s level graduates pursuing a clinical license in mental health, such as an LCSW or LPC, must earn over 3,000 clinical supervision hours before they are eligible to take the Pennsylvania licensing exam. Because there is no equivalent of a medical residency program in the mental health field, many students pay for their clinical supervision hours, which leads to inequities and barriers for many students.

Investing in the Mental Health Provider talent pipeline

In June 2023, our Clinical Supervision Collaborative pilot concluded, and our new program, the Mental Health Clinical Fellowship, started, with contracts signed for 12 agencies/practices, supporting 32 fellows at $5,200 per full time equivalent fellow. We received requests to support 55 fellowships, or $275,000, but could award only $150,000 due to budget constraints.

This fellowship program creates a countywide community
of practice, with large public agencies who bill Medicaid, sharing their skills and expertise with small private practices, and vice versa.

In 2023, our Mental Health Clinical Fellowship
collaborative supported:

31 fellows for supervision hours to become licensed
therapists or counselors serving youth in Lancaster County with
29 supervisors across 12 agencies/practices
29 are now newly licensed clinicians

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For more information Shanece Bowman, Programs Manager | sbowman@touchstonefound.org

For Fellows:

Requirements needed to be a participating Fellow in this program are:

Graduates with a master’s degree in social work or psychology working in mental health programs looking for clinical supervision to take a Pennsylvania licensing exam (LCSW, LPC, LMFT).
Residents of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

For Supervisors:

Requirements needed to be a participating Supervisor in this program are:

Provide an average of 2 hours of clinical supervision time per week to fellows.
Each supervisor will provide clinical supervision to 1-3 fellows.
Each organization will have 1-3 clinical supervisors participating. Organizations will limit the number of clinical hours of their participating supervisors and fellows to allow 2 hours per month for participation in the collaborative.