Community Mental Health Intern
Introduction
This position is a pilot project as of Fall 2025 that places a second-year social work student in the Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change. This student serves as an embedded mental health professional within CCUSC to provide one-on-one meetings, group programming, and cross-center events that offer culturally-responsive, disability-justice-oriented mental health care.
Nate Chang Sawyer, MSW Candidate
Offerings
As the CCUSC Community Mental Health Intern, Nate offers:
- 1:1 Student mental health support
- Community programming
- Mutual aid-focused advocacy
In order to collaboratively build structures of collective care inside the university.
About Nate (he/they)
“How might we ask the university to be accountable to the kind of mental health you want? What structures would foster this kind of mental health, and what would it take to build them?” – Mimi Khúc
As a Taiwanese-American graduate student with lived experience of mental illness and psychiatric disability, Nate’s work is centered on collaborating with fellow students to imagine and build structures of collective care inside the university. Nate believes mental health is structural, relational, and political.
How to Reach Out
There are no costs or session limits. Meetings can be scheduled via email (nsawy@uic.edu) for both in-person and remote.
Nate’s office is in BSB 4080. This room is accessible via elevator.
If there are any questions or access requests, please reach out to nsawy@uic.edu!