The Sanville Institute Scholarship Program is a highly competitive program offered to students at the doctoral level of mental health professional training, with the intention of relieving some of the financial burden of pursuing an advanced degree. The Board of Sanville Institute is particularly desirous of encouraging clinical competence in a culturally and racially diverse population of clinicians.
Vanna Cassimere
Vanna Cassimere is a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Clinical Social Work and serves as Supervisor of Ongoing Education at UTHealth Houston Behavioral Sciences Center. She also serves as Program Lead for the Inpatient Social Work Fellowship and as Program Faculty in the UTHealth Houston School of Behavioral Health Sciences MSW Program.
Since entering the mental health field in 2014, her work has focused on clinical practice, supervision, workforce development, and advancing culturally responsive care. Her research explores the lived experiences of BIPOC clinicians in psychotherapy.
Vanna lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband and their two children and is honored to receive the Sanville Scholarship in recognition of her commitment to culturally responsive clinical practice and mental health education.