Core Mental Health offers funding through fellowships, grants, and periodically scholarships.
Fellowships
We are currently offering 14 fellowships for 2023. Click here for details and here for the application (deadline is Sept. 18, 2023). These fellowships have been offered with support from the Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership, Mount Auburn Hospital, and McLean Hospital. This fellowship recognizes the need for more Black/African American identifying individuals in the mental health field and the barriers presented by the requirement of unpaid internships paired with the significant wealth gap for Black/African American people. Over the past 3 years, we have awarded 63 fellowships with $2000 awards (totaling $126,000) to individuals who are currently studying mental health. The fellows attend a panel of experienced Black/African American providers who talk about what it was like for them when they entered the field and how they take care of themselves while doing this work. This will help in building a supportive network of Black/African American providers. Our fellowship recipients are:
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2020, 2021, 2022 Fellows
Mental Health and Racial Equity Grants 2020
Core Mental Health recognizes the need for funding for organizations to address issues from the CORE report on Mental Health and Racial Equity. The goal is to increase access to mental health services through advancing racial equity and building organizational capacity and leadership. Our focus is the intersection of mental health and racial equity, not one or the other in isolation. We aim to work specifically on racism, and not more broadly on cultural diversity. The Grantees are:
- Waltham Boys and Girls
- Waltham Coalition for Advancing Black Youth Mental Health
- Transition House
- South Asian Workers Center
- Y2Y Shelter
Criminal Justice Grants 2020
Core Mental Health is dedicated to the support of youth at risk for incarceration as well as the well-being of youth post-incarceration. We recognize the impact that unjust incarceration has on the mental health of its victims. With support from McLean hospital, in October 2020, Core Mental Health awarded two $4,000 grants to further racial equity work in the field of criminal justice. The Grantees are
- More Than Words
- Citizens for Juvenile Justice
Hate and Bias Prevention for Youth in After-School Programs
Core Mental Health is committed to addressing mental health within the context of racial equity. The aim of this initiative is to build capacity for after-school programs to operationalize equity and address bullying, specifically hate and bias-related incidents. In doing so, we hope to create a roadmap for others to use in doing this work by building and documenting best practices in operationalizing racial equity for our region. Through this funding we supported three after-school programs in reviewing and changing systems and practices to address hate and bias-related incidents. The Grantees are:
- Cambridge Community Center
- East End House
- Belmont After School Enrichment Collaborative
Mental Health and Racial Equity Grants 2019
With support of Mount Auburn Hospital, in January 2019 Core Mental Health awarded four $11,500 grants for organizations to collaborate to address needs from the CORE report on Mental Health and Racial Equity. The goal is to increase access to mental health services through advancing racial equity and building organizational capacity and leadership. The Grantees are:
- Brandeis University
- Arlington Public Schools
- Kingdom Empowerment Center
- ACCESS (Advancement of Culturally Competent Education to Stop Stigma)
For questions about this process please contact Stacy Carruth, Planning Director at director@core-mental-health.org