Fellowship Description: This Advanced Social Work Fellowship begins in September 2026, and finishes in August, 2027. The training experience involves the opportunity to provide both clinical services and receive advanced training opportunities. This fellowship is full time, and is split evenly between Child Adolescent Mental Health Integration (CAMHI), located in a pediatric primary care site, and the child outpatient psychiatry department. For the CAMHI component, trainees have the opportunity to see clients in a pediatric clinic. In general psychiatry, trainees see clients in the outpatient child department. In both services, the fellow is a member of a multidisciplinary clinical team. Trainees are required to be on site for a total of 40 hours per week, including one evening. Postgraduate trainees receive a stipend (including health insurance) and four weeks of paid vacation.
CAMHI Overview: The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Integration Program (CAMHI) provides brief treatment to primary care patients under age 18 using a stepped care model. Each clinic's CAMHI team is comprised of a Family Care Partner (FCP), Integrated Therapist, and a consulting psychiatrist. The FCP is a vital component of the team- they don't provide therapy, but they assist with outreaching to families to gather information, providing education and guidance to families and patients about behavioral health and available resources, both within and outside of CHA, and helping families navigate the complicated behavioral health care system. The Integrated therapists areboth social workers and psychologists who offer brief therapy to patients, with a variety of presenting concerns, including, but not limited to, moderate mood or anxiety disorders, adjustment disorders, and executive functioning issues. In addition to maintaining a caseload, the integrated therapists are also available for consultation with primary care providers as needed. The consulting psychiatrists conduct psychiatric evaluation of mild to moderate mental health difficulties in the primary care setting using the stepped care model, provide ongoing consultation on psychiatric treatment of low severity cases for primary care providers, provide education to primary care providers in a team setting, and are available for indirect consultation through EPIC e-consults.
Trainee Duties and Clinical Responsibilities: The social work fellow will carry a caseload of 20 patient billable hours, representing a 50% productivity expectation, split between CAMHI (10 hours) and the child/adolescent OPD (10 hours). In the child ambulatory psychiatry department, the social work fellow will carry an outpatient caseload that will comprise a goal of ten hours of billed clinical time, consisting of evaluations, time-limited cases, ongoing psychotherapy cases, group therapy, and family treatment.
Trainee Supervision: Each social work fellow receives a minimum of two hours of weekly individual clinical supervision, as well as FIRST weekly group supervision. All supervision is provided by independently licensed social workers, as well as senior staff in other disciplines. Additional specialized supervision is arranged as needed.
Orientation: At the start of the training year in September, incoming fellows will be expected to participate in hospital- wide orientation programs, as well as orientation specific to social work, the child OPD, and to CAMHI. Trainees will also learn to use EPIC, the electronic medical record.
OPD Team Meeting: This interdisciplinary weekly meeting is comprised of trainees and staff. During this meeting, new evaluations of patients are assigned, completed evaluations are presented, cases are reviewed, clinical consultations are extended to all team members, and basic clinical teaching is conducted. Team meeting is held Friday mornings from 8:30am to 12 noon, and is required of all staff and trainees.
Treatment Modalities: The trainee would be given the opportunity to practice using a wide variety of evidence-based treatment options including: FIRST, CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused Treatment, Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Family Systems Treatment, Trauma Focused Treatment, and Group Psychotherapy.
Outpatient Psychiatry Department Seminars: A wide variety of seminars are offered and encouraged, including: Grand Rounds, an Acute Crime Seminar, a Child Psychotherapy Seminar, a Family Therapy Seminar, a Multicultural Seminar, and an OPD Case Conference.
Professional Development Seminar: SW fellows from our eight fellowship programs meet biweekly and have guest speakers present on multiple aspects of the social work profession.
Application Procedures
Fellowships are available to students who have completed an MSW from an accredited institution. Social work fellows are awarded an annual stipend of approximately $62,000 for a 12-month training year, with a 4-week paid vacation, holiday and sick time included. Fellows will be expected to have received their LCSW by the fall of 2026.
Trainees who are best matched to the fellowship program are mature and experienced students with varied clinical backgrounds and strong recommendations from both academic and clinical settings. Applicants for advanced social work training should submit a cover letter, C.V. and three letters of recommendation by March 27, 2026 to our program coordinator, John MacCumascaigh, at jmaccumascaigh@challiance.org.
Phillip Brown, LICSW
Director of Social Work Training
Chief of Psychiatry Social Work