MFP Fellow Mental Health, Substance Use, and Prevention Projects

Fellow Community Projects

MFP Fellows are given the opportunity to submit an internal proposal for a low-impact community project to help address  mental health, substance use, and prevention issues in communities, relating to SAMHSA priorities. This program activity allows our Fellows to gain much more leadership training and further identify pathways of how marriage and family therapists can improve services to their community as practitioners (direct service), researchers, and teachers. Additionally, our Fellows will understand the process of community engagement, building, and capacity development to address mental illness, substance use, or relational issues.

2022 Fellow Projects 

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2021 Fellow Projects

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Community-Informed Therapeutic Activities

The purpose of the Community Informed Therapeutic assignments is to help our Masters Fellows critically think about evidence-based and informed techniques/activities that can assist communities in their journey to wellness. The activity allows our Fellows to work together in group projects and build professional relationships with their cohort members. At the end of the fellowship year each cohort of Fellows will have a document of worksheets/activities that can be used in clinical practice.

The activity allows Fellows to increase the tangible materials that will help them become confident and well-informed practitioners, and increase their therapeutic skills while improving mental health, substance use, and prevention services to communities.