Field Experience

Our Community Partners

CABH Field Experience

The ܽƵapp CABH Program is pleased to partner with community, youth, and family agencies across the United States and internationally to provide field experience opportunities for our graduate ܽƵapps. Our community partners receive the help of talented graduate ܽƵapps and their academic mentors in support of their agency mission and service delivery goals. By participating as a Field Experience site, our partners help build the quality of the child and adolescent behavioral health workforce.

What Employers Are Saying ܽƵapp Our Program

Champions for Children

Champions for Children"I want to reiterate how integral Kayla has been to the success of TALK READ SING Tampa Bay’s implementation since January. She has consistently produced content that is beyond our expectations and her professional and delightful demeanor has been an excellent addition to our team here!"
- Jenna Pullara Ramos, Champions for Children

Children's Mental Health Network

Children's Mental Health Network“When working with ܽƵapps, my goal is to help them feel and experience real-life situations. I like to help them learn to ask the right questions while talking to a variety of individuals working with children and families.”
– Scott Bryant-Comstock, CMHN

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Engage Behavioral Health

Engage Behavioral HealthOur population is an exact fit for the ܽƵapps in the CABH program. We serve a variety of children and adolescents, all with unique characteristics and facing a variety of challenges across home and school environments."
– Engage Behavioral Health

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ܽƵapp the Field Experience

Students selecting the Applied Track will complete 6 credit hours of field experience. To complete the field experience, ܽƵapps will need to complete 270 hours:

  • work at an agency on a behavioral health issue of importance to the agency or community; and,
  • submit a project proposal, carry out their project, and develop a final report summarizing their findings.

The ܽƵapp's Academic Advisor and an agency-based Field Supervisor guide ܽƵapp work.

Field experience projects vary considerably by topic, depending upon the agency's needs and the ܽƵapp's interests. For example, a ܽƵapp might:

  • Conduct a needs assessment
  • Develop social marketing strategies
  • Help develop a strategic plan
  • Identify appropriate evidence-based practices
  • Support program development and implementation
  • Conduct community-based research and evaluation
  • And many other possibilities.
Partner with us

Partner With Us!

The CABH online program is looking to partner with public and private non-profit agencies that serve children, adolescents, and their families to offer field experience to our talented ܽƵapps as they complete their Masters program.

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View Field Experience Profiles and Testimonials