AAMFT/SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program for USA Citizens (2011-2012),@ American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy,USA

Description: The AAMFT Minority Fellowship Program’s objective is to expand the delivery of culturally competent mental health and substance abuse services to underserved minority populations, and to increase the number of doctoral level culturally competent ethnic minority Marriage and Family therapists. Our goal is to do this by providing financial support and professional guidance to ethnic minority graduate students pursuing doctoral degrees in Marriage and Family therapy. Our mission–consistent with the Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health and other federal initiatives to reduce health disparities—is to increase the pool of talented, culturally competent doctoral-level researchers, teachers and practitioners dedicated to assisting underserved minorities.
Eligibility:  Applicants must be American citizens or permanent residents with an permanent residents registration card (I-151 or I-551). Individuals on temporary or student visas are not eligible.
2).Applicants must demonstrate a strong commitment to a career in ethnic minority mental health and substance abuse services. This commitment must be demonstrated in the applicants essays, graduate school curriculum or training plan, practicum and internship training experiences, and thesis and dissertation topics developed.
3). Applicants should be enrolled full-time in a Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) doctoral program. Students applying to MFT doctoral programs may apply to the fellowship but you must be accepted at the time of the award to be eligible.
4).Students who are on full-time internship, who are ABD or will become ABD during the fellowship year are NOT eligible for the fellowship.
5). African American, Alaskan Native, American Indian, Asian American, Hispanic/Latino, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander students are especially encouraged to apply.
6).This fellowship is aimed at Marriage and Family Therapy doctoral students specializing in providing substance abuse and mental health services to minority and underserved populations.
Deadline: March 18, 2011
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