Posted on July 18, 2025

Towards the hiring of a new Clinical Director (CD) to better support middle school aged students afflicted with pressing, complex mental health needs (including: ADHD; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Conduct Disorder; PTSD; Anxiety; and Depression), as well as to provide support for acute crises. The CD will provide a full scope of accessible, culturally-responsive, mental healthcare services, including interventions with students during their middle school years – a period when research says intervention can be most effective. The Arthur Project will work with 320 total students who attend two schools in the Bronx and one school in Brooklyn. The CD will serve a direct caseload of 20 additional students, while also supporting the clinical needs of the entire caseload. In addition to providing direct services to their most complex students, the CD will help to train their young clients’ mentors (graduate school Social Work students who are future clinicians in training), in culturally-appropriate, research-based practices. The Arthur Project thus seeks to create a replicable model to professionalize traditional mentoring by utilizing clinically-focused Social Work graduate school students as mentors, who better hone their skills by helpfully working intensively with middle school-aged youths.