I Ola Lāhui Rural Hawai’i Behavioral Health Internship Training Program provides clinical psychologists who are capable of functioning with professional autonomy in a variety of applied settings in the community, using empirically validated techniques informed by the scientific literature and conducting ongoing research on their own practice to further develop the
evidence base in the areas of rural and primary care psychology.

I Ola Lāhui is a psychology training program whose aim is to provide generalist training to predoctoral psychology interns, as well as, specialty training to deliver integrated, evidence-based, and culturally-minded interventions for use in Hawai‘i’s rural and medically underserved communities.

The philosophy of the training program is based on a scientist-practitioner model to exemplify the integral connection and bidirectional relationship between scholarly inquiry, research, and evaluation and all levels of professional activities.  Interns will be trained within a community-based, integrated and collaborative behavioral health model of service delivery and receive exposure to various diverse cultural and patient groups, as well as
community and primary care clinic settings.

I Ola Lāhui is a pre-doctoral internship program whose primary goals are:  1) to provide training in foundational competency areas (ethics, cultural and individual diversity) that have broad applicability across program goals and remaining core competencies; 2) to provide intensive, generalist training to prepare students for the practice of professional psychology; 3) to provide a diverse clinical training experience with an emphasis on integrated mental health service delivery in rural community health/primary care settings;
and, 4) to foster the development of professional practice, research, and
organizational/administrative skills to function independently across a variety of community health care settings in Hawai‘i’s rural and medically underserved areas.