Clinical practicum program development for non-profit organizations

Why you should consider adding clinical counselling practicum: Beginning or expanding a clinical counselling practicum operation can support your organization’s mission to care for the psychological and emotional well-being of your clients and serve the community. Practicum programs have a “force multiplier” effect of benefit by…

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• Increasing number of clients supported with quality mental health care, and decreasing wait times. Community programs with limited funding often struggle to offer this kind of support, or to keep up with demand on services for staffed counselling programs. Wait lists for free community services often expand beyond 6 months, leaving clients without access to care, and increasing the mental load on already taxed workers. Practicum students can ease this burden, and significantly lower wait-times for services.
   

• Shaping the careers of new counselling professionals with practitioner-advocate lenses. Practicum students who are exposed to counselling work in frontline settings cultivate a justice-advocacy perspective and build skills in systemically oriented and anti-oppressive practice.