The HBCU-CFE seeks to expose HBCU students to a wide range of opportunities in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health fields, including but not limited to internships, mentoring, evidence-based practices and leadership trainings.
HBCU-CFE Behavioral Health RFA Overview
The HBCU-CFE behavioral health mini-grant program will embrace a public health approach to ensure student behavioral health needs are integrated throughout an institution’s multiple systems and will be strategically aligned with the overall network established through the HBCU-CFE. Opportunities for exposure to behavioral health career options will be embedded into the framework of the mini-grant program along with emerging data on best practice trends and institutional service needs.
The purpose of the HBCU-CFE behavioral health mini-grant is to support and promote opportunities for HBCU institutions to foster behavioral health careers through internships at behavioral health sites, to expand knowledge of evidence-based and emerging best practices in the behavioral health field, to expand screening and referral services for students at risk of behavioral health disorders, and to support the use of behavioral health promotion and prevention activities.
HBCUs that are successful in the application process will be considered for team participation and attendance at the Dr. Lonnie E. Mitchell Behavioral Health Policy Academy in the spring of 2011.
