August 2011
2 posts
Welcome to the MHSA Student and Community Support...
Over the next ten years, as the majority of mental health service providers in San Francisco County reach retirement age, there will be a continual workforce need to fill these positions with therapists who reflect the wide range of lived experiences, ethnicities, languages, genders and sexual orientations of their clients.
In order to fill these positions successfully, we are...
Community Mental Health Student Profile: Elena...
From time to time, we will feature various students at CIIS so people can get a glimpse of student life here. We are pleased to bring you our fourth installment of student profiles! We had the chance to ask Elena White-Negrete a few questions about her experiences in the CMH program at CIIS. Enjoy!
Introduce yourself!
My name is Elena White-Negrete. I am a soon-to-be second year student in...
July 2011
1 post
Scholarship and Grant Opportunities (updated...
Periodically, we will post and update our scholarship and grant opportunities for prospective and current students. We encourage you to think outside this box and are excited to begin posting about other potential grassroots ways of fundraising. Please let us know your good news!
Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grants
Grants up to 12,000
Deadline: November 1, 2011
The Roy Scrivner...
February 2011
1 post
Community Mental Health Student Profile: Claudia...
From time to time, we will feature various students at CIIS so people can get a glimpse of student life here. We are pleased to bring you our third installment of student profiles! We had the chance to ask Claudia Molina a few questions about her experiences in the CMH program at CIIS. Enjoy!
What drew you to the Community Mental Health Program? What kinds of life experiences made you feel...
January 2011
1 post
MHSA related training opportunities
There are a number of unique and diverse opportunities that deserve their own section! We will be posting and updating our scholarship and grant opportunities as well as related training opportunities. We always encourage students to think outside the box of traditional fund and are excited to begin posting about other potential grassroots ways of fundraising and training and job...
September 2010
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Community Mental Health Student Profile: Jesus...
From time to time, we will feature various students at CIIS so people can get a glimpse of student life here. We are pleased to bring you our second installment of student profiles! We had the chance to ask Jesus Solorio a few questions about his experiences in the CMH program at CIIS. Enjoy!
What drew you to the Community Mental Health Program? What kinds of life experiences made you feel that...
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Community Mental Health Student Profile: Adriana...
From time to time, we will feature various students at CIIS so people can get a glimpse of student life here. We had the chance to ask Adriana Furuzawa a few questions about her experiences in the CMH program at CIIS. Enjoy!
Adriana, what drew you to the CMH program?
What drew me to the CMH program was the fact that I could not picture myself in private mental health practice, and I was...
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MHSA Student and Community Support Project Staff...
As Community Outreach Liaison for the Mental Health Services Act Student and Community Support Project at CIIS, Irina Contreras is not just responsible for students, but also for prospective student and community support. This means she does a little bit of everything including co-coordinating the project’s past summer training series on stereotyping, gender binary in the classroom and...
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RAMS Summer Bridge 2010
This past summer, MHSA Student and Community Support Project hosted RAMS-Summer Bridge at CIIS. RAMS-Summer Bridge is an 8-week summer mentoring program for people age 16 to 20 currently enrolled in or recently graduated from SFUSD high schools. Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc. (RAMS) is the leading agency and is collaborating with Horizons Unlimited, Samoan Community Development Center,...
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Scholarship and Grant Opportunities (updated...
Periodically, we will post and update our scholarship and grant opportunities for prospective and current students. We encourage you to think outside this box and are excited to begin posting about other potential grassroots ways of fundraising. Please let us know your good news!
Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund
Grants of up to 10,000
Deadline: 4/01/2011
http://www.davisputter.org/index.html
The...
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MHSA Student and Community Support Project Staff...
Joy Amao is the project manager for the Mental Health Services Act at CIIS as well as a graduate of the CIIS MCP programs. In addition to her work at CIIS, she specializes in helping individuals, couples, families and groups in both agencies and private practice settings. By identifying and deconstructing seen and unseen barriers, her clients can attain personal fulfillment and their professional...
