Additional Training Commitment

Trainees must commit to:

• Participating in all scheduled program meetings
  and trainings during the training year
• Completing all pre-/post- training surveys as
  requested and on time during the training year
• Providing updated contact info at MSW graduation
• Completing annual follow-up surveys as requested
  and on time for at least five years after graduation
• Completing the post-graduation service obligation
• Pursuing LCSW licensure

For each year of training participation, graduates must provide the equivalent of 12 months of full time service as behavioral health care providers in publicly funded behavioral health programs and setting.

• Eligible service settings include (but are not limited to) community-based behavioral health care clinics and agencies, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, schools and colleges, SELPAs, inpatient and outpatient health care settings, and child welfare, regional center, juvenile delinquency, court and adult corrections units with publicly funded behavioral health programs and services.

Graduates must verify pursuit of LCSW licensure via BBS registration and the accrual of required hours

Training program graduates who fail to complete the required service obligation by the deadline based on graduation date will be required to repay the stipend funding to their MSW program.

Graduates who fulfill NONE of the service obligation will be required to repay all stipend funding in full.

Graduates who fulfill SOME but not ALL of the service obligation will be required to repay a prorated amount, based on the total hours of eligible service completed.

Stipend funding repayment plans typically include stipend funding, interest and processing fees.