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2024-25 HRSA Stipend Application
The 2024-25 HRSA cohort is the last cohort of students for this grant. At this time there are no HRSA funding opportunities for students. If this changes we will let students know. (effective 1/24/25)
What is the HRSA Integrative Care Stipend Program?
This opportunity includes: a $10,000 stipend, specialized field placement, and training program with a focus on integrated behavioral health care which provides services to children, adolescents, and/or transitional age youth in rural and medically underserved areas.
The HRSA Integrative Care Stipend Program is a federally funded workforce development program available to concentration year and/or final year Social Work graduate students who are interested in committing to strengthening the workforce in Colorado by focusing on integrated behavioral health care. To that end the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded $1.9 million (over 4 years) to MSU Denver MSW program to fund $10,000 scholarships for 29 concentration year clinical social work students who plan to work with children, youth, transition-age youth and their families in vulnerable, rural, or medically underserved areas.
The program’s goals are to diversify the behavioral health care workforce in Colorado while improving health equity by building, strengthening and innovating our integrative care services.
HRSA invests in the workforce by providing stipend funding and supplementary training to MSW student scholars who are passionate about health equity, and whose career interests (field placement and employment) align with the goals of the HRSA Program.
The selected scholars are awarded a $10,000 stipend for the academic year and in return, must participate in a monthly supplemental training program during the academic year, and commit to 12-months of full-time employment in an approved Behavioral Health Care agency in Colorado, post-graduation.
If selected to participate in the program, students will:
- Work with your field team so they can advise you on appropriate placements;
- Engage in a HRSA designated field placement;
- Sign up for the designated HRSA field seminar course;
- Participate in specialized trainings one time per month;
- Receive 10 payments of $1,000 over the course of the academic year;
Participants are obligated to work for one year (12 months) in a behavioral, mental, or integrated health care setting which provides services to children, youth, transition-age youth and their families in vulnerable, rural, or medically underserved areas.
Stipend Program Eligibility
Students who meet the following criteria are eligible to apply:
- Current MSW Program student (including incoming Advanced Standing students);
- Entering their Concentration Field Placement in their Concentration/Final year of the MSW Program in the 2024-2025 academic year;
- In good academic standing; AND
- Willing to complete a field placement in a HRSA eligible agency.
Stipend Program Application
The 2024-25 stipend application will open on Friday, January 12, 2024.
Successful applicants will complete the application package and engage in an interview with the HRSA faculty. Applications are due Friday, March 15, 2024 at 5:00 PM (Mountain Time) and candidates will be interviewed later in late March or early April (exact dates to be determined).
To apply, please complete and submit the following by 5:00 PM (Mountain Time) on Friday, March 15, 2024:
- Online Application Form
- Essay Questions (submitted via online application)
- 1 to 2 page Resume (uploaded via online application)
- Typed Cover Letter (1 page maximum, uploaded via online application)
- Two Recommendations – one of which MUST be from a faculty member in your current graduate MSW program. Please use the provided recommendation form.
- Advanced Standing students: if you are starting the MSW Program in Summer 2024 as a full-time student and entering a field placement in Fall 2024, you are eligible and your recommendation letters will come from your BSSW Program faculty.
Please contact Jocelyn Galindo, Student Services Manager, at [email protected] with any questions regarding this opportunity!