The Integrated Health with Medically Underserved Populations (IHMUP) training program aims to improve the availability of integrated behavioral health, mental health and physical health care services with children, adolescents, transitional-age youth or adults and their families across the life-span who are living in high need and medically underserved communities.
Recognizing health disparities as a social justice issue relating to access to services, service utilization and health outcomes, IHMUP students will complete field practicums in communities that are medically underserved and experiencing high need for services.
The IHMUP program prepares students to utilize and promote integrated, collaborative care models that attend to the holistic physical, emotional and behavioral health needs of diverse individuals, families and communities using an interpersonal practice framework. This program integrates interprofessional education opportunities to maximize learning with, from, and about other health professionals to develop skills in collaborative team-based care.
IHMUP Program Funding
- $6,000 per term (4 terms for 16-month students / 3 terms for 12-month students )
IHMUP Program Aims
- to prepare a diverse workforce of trained social workers to provide integrated health services to children, adolescents, transitional-age youth or adults and their families across the life-span
- to increase access to quality integrated health services for populations across the lifespan in high need and medically underserved areas
- to improve health outcomes for children, adolescents, transitional-age youth or adults and their families across the life-span in high need and medically underserved areas
- to prepare students to address health disparities through core specialized trainings within the context of organizational, institutional, and societal structures including advocacy for policy and system change
Specialized Courses and Training
IHMUP students are required to engage in the following curricular components:
- Complete Interprofessional Practice in Integrated Health, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Pathway requirements with no substitutions for required courses
- Complete IPE Team Based Clinical Decision Making Course
- Complete an advanced policy course with opportunity for application of integrated health policy and service delivery (1 credit)
- Complete Area Health Education Center (AHEC) certificate program and Qualified Mental Health Professions (QMHP) certification (Some hours to complete these certification are incorporated into field hours)
- Complete field practicum in a medically underserved and high need area. Field practicum will require in-person, onsite field attendance.
- Attend and participate in additional specialized opportunities related to integrated health/interprofessional education and cohort building on Thursdays.
Integrated Field Placement Opportunities
IHMUP students will complete a field placement focused on integrated health services delivery and opportunities to engage with interprofessional team members. Field placements may include mental health, behavioral health, physical health and community-based healthcare agencies serving children, adolescents, transitional-age youth or adults and their families across the life span and groups from different racial, ethnic, cultural, geographic, religious, linguistic, and class backgrounds, and different genders and sexual orientations. The focus will be on serving medically underserve and high need areas and client populations in a variety of communities (e.g. Detroit, Flint, Ypsilanti).
Upon completion of the program, IHMUP students are prepared to seek employment across a wide variety of integrated health settings including mental health, behavioral health, physical health, community-based health agencies, mental health agencies, substance use disorder treatment and recovery programs, hospitals, hospice, long-term care, residential, health departments, and other health programs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Enrollment in an On Campus MSW program which requires 4 or more semesters to complete (16-month or 20-month)
- UM-Dearborn Human Services & SW, or UM Sociology & SW students who apply for and begin the AHEC/QMHP certifications during their Senior year may also apply for this training program
- Students with less than 4 semesters in the MSW program are not eligible for this program due to specific training program requirements (e.g. full-time Advanced Standing or MasterTrack) unless they choose to do an additional fourth term
- Select the Interpersonal Practice in Integrated Health, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse curricular pathway and complete all pathway requirements and additional required specialized courses and training as described above
- Be accepted by an appropriate field placement sites and pass any required background checks and/or drug screenings
- Availability to participate in formal and informal extracurricular scholar cohort activities and meetings
- When course planning, trainees must be available for IHMUP activities on Thursdays
- Agree to actively pursue employment opportunities to promote and engage in integrated healthcare delivery and pursuing social work practice in medically underserved and high need areas upon completion of the program
* Due to course and field requirements, dual MSW/MPH students are not eligible to participate in this program.
Application
- On Campus MSW applicants meeting IHMUP eligibility criteria that are interested in integrated health with medically underserved populations are invited to apply.
- Trainees must be enrolled in the on-campus full-time 16-month or 20-month schedule and select the Interprofessional Practice in Integrated Health, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Pathway pathway.
- Application deadlines: December 1, 2022 (early application), February 1, 2023 (priority), March 15, 2023. Selection of applicants will be made from all dates with priority given to those applicants that meet the December and February deadlines.
- Deferred admits planning to enroll in fall 2023 must submit their special program application by November 1, 2022.
- Financial need will be considered in the review of special program applications.
- Your MSW application must be complete by the scholarship deadline.
- If you would like to apply to IHMUP, please answer "yes" to the question, "Do you plan to apply to an SSW Special Program?" found on the Financial Assistance page of the MSW application and then select the IHMUP checkbox. The IHMUP Program application page will be added to the end of your MSW application.
- Be sure to include your name and “IHMUP Scholars Statement” in the upper corner of your statement.
IHMUP Training Program Leadership
Coordinator: Daicia Price
Co-Coordinator: Debra Mattison
Field Faculty Lead: Rosalva Osario
For more information about the IHMUP, contact the Office of Student Services and Enrollment Management at (734) 936-0961 or ssw.msw.info@umich.edu.