InSTEP Program
Integrated Systems Training in Evidence Based Practices
Purpose:
The Purpose of the InSTEP Grant is to build on the successes in recruitment, building practicum sites, and establishing networks and community partnerships to expand the preparation of integrative behavioral health professionals to rural regions in Southwest Wisconsin. The BWHET grant would build on the foundation and experience gained to offering additional training to students and professionals in rural sites with underserved populations by utilizing evidence-based practice through in-person and virtual approaches.
Grant Objectives:
Objective 1: Increase the number of experiential training sites to promote the integration of behavioral health into primary care settings in high need and high demand areas. Experiential placements must include interdisciplinary training of two or more health disciplines using a team-based care approach to provide quality behavioral health services.
Objective 2: Enhance didactic and experiential training activities through the development of competencies in primary and behavioral integrated, interprofessional team-based trauma informed care, for trainees, faculty, and staff.
Objective 3: Establish community partnerships to ensure participation in the institutions’ programs of individuals and groups from different racial, ethnic, cultural, geographic, religious, linguistic, and class backgrounds, and different genders and sexual orientations, opportunities for field placements, community education, career development, and provide job placement services, to increase access to behavioral health services.
Objective 4: Promote technology integration in the provision of services and training programs, including utilizing telehealth services, implementing strategies to increase digital health literacy, and offering options for distance learning.
Objective 5: Reduce financial barriers by providing financial support to trainees in the form of stipends and other participant support costs to recruit a behavioral health workforce to serve rural, underserved populations
Student Placement in Internship Sites
- After the grant team admits students to the InSTEP Program, the PD will work in collaboration with site supervisors to place students in sites that have integrated and/or inter-professional team-based care with services for at-risk children, adolescents, and transitional-age youth.
- Sites will include behavioral health agencies and nonprofit organizations that are predominantly located in high need and high demand areas (i.e., rural, underserved) within a 150-mile radius of La Crosse, Wis.
MSMHC Practicum/Internship Handbook
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Student Requirements for InSTEP Applicants