Enhancing Capacity in School Mental Health Undergraduate Internship

The School Mental Health Undergraduate Internship is a school mental health liaison role to help connect students and families to resources provided by school mental health professionals.  

This program accepts undergraduate students who have completed at least two years of schooling and are interested in pursuing a career in school mental health (e.g., clinician, social worker, psychologist, counselor).  

Program Expectations (140 hours)  

Milestone One: Learn the roles of the school mental health team. Work with the school mental health clinician, counselor, social worker, psychologist, nurse, resource officer or other team members to promote and support school mental health. 

Milestone Two: Identify resources at the school and in the community. 

Milestone Three: Complete training with the UofSC team to provide appropriate mental health support to schools. 

Milestone Four: Develop materials to inform families, students and schools of the roles of the mental health team. 

Milestone Five: Conduct a needs assessment to help facilitate meeting the mental health needs of students and their family.  

Milestone Six: Interns will attend at least 20 hours of professional development (10 hours with a mental health team member and 10 hours with UofSC team).

Contact Leah Tolan with the School Behavioral Health Team at ltolan@email.sc.edu for more information.