Youth Mental Health Academy
Become an
Internship Host
Help shape the next generation of mental health leaders. Host YMHA interns at your organization.
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.
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
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Our Internship 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.