Certified Welness Coach

The Wellness Coach role is a new, certified position to increase our state’s overall capacity to support the growing behavioral health needs of our youth. It is designed to help build a larger and more diverse and representative behavioral health workforce in California that has the training and supervision needed to engage directly with young people where they live, study and work. Wellness Coaches will offer non-clinical services that support youth behavioral health and well-being, such as wellness promotion and education, screening, care coordination, individual and group support, and crisis referral. 

Today’s mental health crisis is negatively impacting children and youth in California. Certified Wellness Coaches can create real change. Coaches can make a positive difference in schools, health care programs, and community organizations because they can help the young people they serve have better, happier lives.

As a program on path towards designation from HCAI (California Department of Health Care Access and Information), the Human Development Department has partnered with the State of California to ensure that students completing our approved Certified Wellness Coach (CWC) curriculum will be able to acquire all the necessary education and fieldwork requirements to be eligible to apply to become a CWC upon graduation.

• Graduate from Fresno State with a BA in Social Work while taking the Wellness Coach Training Program.
• Complete a minimum of 800 hours of supervised field experience through any combination of hours from the Social Work field practicum, additional internship hours, or work experience. (Upon graduation, applications are accepted with 300 hours completed. Any hours not completed during degree program can be completed post -graduation via relevant internship or work experience.)
• Visit cawellnesscoach.org for more information