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Youth Mental Health Academy

Become an
Internship Host

Help shape the next generation of mental health leaders. Host YMHA interns at your organization.

Submit Interest Form

Your Partnership Matters

The Youth Mental Health Academy (YMHA) is designed to cultivate the next generation of diverse mental health professionals — and we can’t do it without partners like you. We’re seeking organizations to host interns for approximately 100 hours between the months of July and August.

By hosting YMHA interns, you’re providing meaningful learning experiences while helping to build a more inclusive and culturally responsive mental health workforce.

Why Host YMHA Interns?

Provide

Provide Opportunity

Open doors to real-world career experiences for youth from historically underrepresented communities.

Gain

Gain Fresh Perspectives

Interns bring new ideas, curiosity, and energy that can spark innovation across your projects and teams.

Expand

Expand Your Capacity

Interns can support outreach, research, social media, and more — increasing your impact at no cost to your organization.

Internship Details

Internship Details

In person, remote, or hybrid

Mid-June to mid-August*
*Work schedule set by your organization

16–20 hours/week for five weeks (80–100 hours total)

YMHA interns are high school and early college students ages 16 to 19 across California, including the Bay Area, Kern, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Diego

YMHA pays interns a stipend of up to $2,000

Our Internship Partners

Mental Health Care and Health Care Partners
  • 7 Cups
  • AACI
  • ACC Senior Services
  • AFSP Bay Area
  • Alix Sarubbi, Psychologist, PLLC
  • allcove Beach Cities
  • allcove San Mateo
  • Alzheimer’s San Diego
  • APLA Health
  • Beats Rhymes and Life Inc.
  • BrainHealth Solutions
  • BrightLife Kids
  • California Youth Crisis Line
  • Cedars-Sinai
  • Children’s Institute Inc.
  • Chinatown Service Center
  • Connections Without Barriers Foundation
  • Counseling4kids
  • Crisis Text Line
  • California State University Long Beach
  • Didi Hirsch Suicide Prevention Center
  • Do Good Leadership Collective
  • Eastern Harmony Mental Health
  • Emilio Nares Foundation
  • Erick A Garcia You Are Enough Foundation
  • Family Paths
  • Felton Institute
  • Foothill Family
  • Glenner Memory Healthcare Center
  • Health Care Integrated Services
  • Healthy Aging Center Acacia
  • Here App
  • Holistic Hyperbarics
  • House of Ruth
  • Insula Collective
  • International Ally Federation
  • Jennifer Moreno Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  • KidAbilities
  • La Paz Emergency Medicine and Research Group
  • Larkin Street Youth Services
  • Letters to Strangers
  • Licensed Adult Residential Care Association
  • Live Oak Mental Wellness Project
  • Los Angeles LGBT Center
  • Mental Wellness Center
  • Mercy Health
  • NAMI Marin County
  • NAMI San Mateo
  • National Child Traumatic Stress Network
  • National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA)
  • National Mental Health Corps
  • Niazi Family Medicine & Urgent Care
  • Norooz Clinical Foundation
  • North Star Speech and Language Pathology Center, Inc.
  • Pacific Islander Community Health
  • Promly
  • Radiant Health Centers
  • SafeSpace
  • Samaritans, Inc.
  • Samuel Dixon Family Health Center, Inc.
  • Scribble
  • Simple Health Acupuncture & Wellness
  • Southern California Counseling Center
  • Southwest Sports Wellness Foundation
  • Start Well Family, Infant Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
  • Sycamores
  • Teens4TeensHelp
  • The Davis Group
  • The Guidance Center
  • The Happier Life Project
  • The Healing Point Therapy and Wellness
  • The Purpose of Recovery
  • Inland Empire Mental Health Training & Integration Center
  • WestCoast Therapy & Wellness
Community and Nonprofit Partners
  • 826 Valencia
  • 826LA
  • A Reason To Survive (ARTS)
  • ABLED
  • Alchemist CDC
  • Alexandria House
  • AMAAD Institute
  • Arts Bridging the Gap
  • BIPOC Support Foundation
  • Bully Talk Inc
  • Camp Ramah
  • City of Refuge
  • City2Village International Initiative
  • Color The Block
  • Community Action Marin
  • Community Reading Buddies
  • Connected to Lead
  • Dorothy Day House
  • East Oakland Youth Development Center
  • Education Is Key
  • Feeding America Riverside San Bernardino
  • Garden Pathways
  • Koreatown Youth and Community Center
  • Lotus Bloom
  • Love Beyond Limits
  • Many Mansions
  • Meridian Foundation
  • My Good Brain
  • NoSilence NoViolence
  • Oakland LGBTQ Community Center
  • Outpost Summer Camps
  • Pal Center
  • Pass it Forward Foundation
  • PLUS ME Project
  • ProduceGood
  • Reality Changers
  • SABLE Media/ASCEND
  • Salesian Family Youth Center
  • San Diego Public Library
  • San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living
  • Sorensdale Recreation Center
  • Spirit Awakening Foundation
  • Tiny Village Spirit
  • TurnOut
  • Un Mundo de Amigos Preschool
  • Young Visionaries Youth Leadership Academy
  • Youth Centers of Orange
  • YWCA Glendale and Pasadena
Research and Education Partners
  • CAADE
  • California State University Dominguez Hills
  • Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Levitt Lab
  • City of Knowledge
  • Columbia University, EBB Lab
  • EQ Strategists
  • Fontana Lewis Library & Technology Center
  • Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT)
  • Lab for Scalable Mental Health
  • MiResource
  • Nathan Klein Institute
  • play2PREVENT Lab at Dartmouth College
  • Policy & Innovation Center
  • Simply Neuroscience
  • Sonnenburg Lab at Stanford University
  • Stanford Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing
  • The Skyline College Child Development Laboratory Center
  • UC San Diego Health
  • UC San Francisco: Cal-MAP
  • University of Redlands Center for Educational Justice
  • USC Epstein Family Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute
  • ZenEdge Coaching
Media, Technology, and Corporate Partners
  • AfroLA
  • AI4ALL
  • For Better Brains
  • Game Thinking
  • Lewis Law Group
  • ShelterTech
  • Soluna
  • Together for Wellness
  • Welfie
  • Youth Creating Change

Ready to Get Started?

Please complete this interest form if you’d like to host YMHA interns at you organization.