MENTAL HEALTH and RECOVERY SERVICES STRENGTHENS THE NEXT GENERATION OF MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Contributor: Michael J. Mullard, Ph.D., LMFT (Photos are from the Intern Thank You Party, 2022 graduates.)
Mental Health and Recovery Services (MHRS) programs
Participating in the recruitment efforts for MHRS have
regularly recruit student interns from local universi-
been Diane Holley, Division Director; Erika Hayden,
ties to spend an academic year providing services to
Behavioral Health Clinician II (BHCII); Jody Spellmeyer,
OC Health Care Agency (HCA) participants. Several
BHCII; Niyati Roy, Psychologist II; and Matt Lynch,
programs such as Adult Older Adult Behavioral Health
Psychologist II. These individual programs and their
(AOABH), Children and Youth Behavioral Health (CYBH)
field instructors, preceptors, and clinical supervi-
and Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) have inde-
sors have provided outstanding service to promising
pendently built informal networks with several univer-
students who in turn gained valuable knowledge and
sities within Southern California, including Cal State
skills which contributed to their early career successes.
Universities at Fullerton and Long Beach; Chapman University; Azusa Pacific; and the Chicago School of
Every year, the students express their appreciation for
Professional Psychology, as well as several online
this opportunity to work at the Agency. For example,
programs.
one student provided the following email to Diane Holley:
Over the years, these talented students provided counseling and case management services to Medi-Cal participants in exchange for practicum credits.
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Hello Ms. Holley: I just want to extend my gratitude and thanks to you for giving me the
