The Mental Health program in San Mateo County is a comprehensive mental health services program dedicated to serving the needs of seriously mentally ill adults and severely emotionally disturbed youth and their families. Services are offered to children, adolescents, and adults in inpatient, outpatient, and outreach programs by multidisciplinary staff that includes Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Nurses, Social Workers, MFT's, Interns and Trainees. We offer many placement opportunities. Some opportunities are with our Regional Clinics, which serve adults and youths within a geographic area. Other opportunities are with units that serve specialized populations of senior adults, adults and youth throughout the County. Each unit is described in more detail in this packet of information. Along with the required supervision hours, trainees have weekly didactic seminars and are included in clinical case consultations and in-service trainings. Training: San Mateo County is proud of its training programs as we provide training opportunities for approximately 60-75 psychology interns, masters-level trainees and psychiatric residents every year. Students are welcome to attend any of the five didactic training seminars throughout the county. There are bi- monthly psychiatric grand rounds at the hospital that are open to all staff and students. Regular in-service trainings and specialized staff trainings are also available for students to attend. Over the past years there have been trainings in a wide variety of topics such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Attachment Theory, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Suicide Assessment. Cultural Competency Stipends are available for those who are able to help provide services to underserved populations within our system of Senior, Adult and Youth Services. Each stipend is $5,000 for an intern or trainee who works 24 hours in their placement. Stipends will be pro-rated if the student works fewer hours. If you are interested in learning more or in applying, you can download a copy of the  Stipend Application. and Intern and Trainee Employment Application How to Apply: Please see the relevant information packet for your discipline. At this time our placements for September, 2007 to May, 2008 are all filled. We will be accepting applications for 08-09 placements beginning in February, 2008. For students or recent graduates of Masters Programs in Social Work or MFT programs who are seeking field placements, please look at the Masters Level Training Placement packet. Information is given on all of the different sites open for you and includes the application procedure. For students in Doctoral Programs who are looking for practicum placements, please see the Practicum Placement packet for information on available sites and the application procedure. For Doctoral students who are seeking Pre-Doctoral or Post-Doctoral Internship placement, please see the Doctoral Internship packet for more information on available sites and the application procedure.  Please note, we are a member of CAPIC and follow their guidelines and procedures. For general information: Alisa Kriegel,Ph.D. Intern Training Coordinator Phone: (650) 573-2306 e-mail: akriegel@co.sanmateo.ca.us