As our Lancaster Mental Health Clinical Fellowship reaches year 3, we are supporting 28 Fellows for supervision hours to become licensed therapists/counselors serving youth here in Lancaster County with 29 supervisors in 9 agencies/practices.
This fellowship program creates a countywide community of practice, with large agencies sharing ability with small private practices, and vice versa.
In September 2022, we celebrated the licensure of 16 new therapists/counselors plus two more awaiting licensing exams. We are experiencing unprecedented wait lists for youth mental health services, and crisis levels of needs among youth experiencing challenges from COVID-19.
We are grateful to The Steinman Foundation for matching funds to launch and support this program.
We are building a network of mental health providers and professionals who are supervising Fellows to earn their license to practice mental health care in our community. This is an ongoing and developing effort to build the Mental Health Clinical Fellowship, with opportunities for us to deepen and strengthen our relationships, trust, and comradery among mental health providers. The 9 participating agencies are beginning to learn from each other, sharing their ability.