Put Me In, Coach is a trauma-informed, psychoeducational mental health and leadership development program. A program that equips students with emotional awareness, co/self-regulation, identity development, and healthy decision-making skills, while intentionally building early workforce pathways in mental health, healthcare, education, and wellness fields. The program uses a prevention-focused, clinical-informed approach to support student awareness of emotional needs and appropriate support pathways. Through psychoeducation, trauma-informed practices, and structured trainings, students receive culturally responsive mental health education designed to strengthen resilience, relationships, and life readiness. A tiered leadership and workforce model is embedded within the program. Interns participate in a supervised career readiness role, where they receive pre-licensed, hands-on exposure by supporting, observing, and receiving guidance from the program director within clearly defined, clinical and non-clinical boundaries. Interns may gain supervised clinical hours in this internship. Interns are trained in professional/personal development, ethical practice, communication, documentation awareness, and leadership while preparing for future professions in mental health, the medical field, child development, and wellness fields. This structure allows students to receive consistent support, senior mentors to grow in leadership capacity, and interns to develop 21st-century workforce skills and mental health literacy. Creating a sustainable pipeline of trained, culturally competent future professionals.
