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Causes: Mental Health, Mental Health & Crisis Intervention
Mission: To provide low fee psychological counseling to low-income groups.
Programs: The primary objective and purpose of new perspectives center for counseling is to provide charitable assistance to the general public by offering low fee psychological counseling aimed primarily at low-income groups; to provide the opportunity for graduate students in clinical psychology or related fields to perform the supervised hours of psychotherapy required for state licensure as marriage and family therapists; to provide an opportunity for clinical research. Npcc achieved the following in carrying out the organization's exempt purpose: over the 12 month period, a total of 25 post-graduate students performed supervised hours of psychotherapy for approximately 200 low-income clients at fees ranging from $40-$110 per client session.
a secondary purpose of npcc, but one which is an intergral part of the functioning of the organization as a counseling center, is to provide a one year post-graduate training program for marriage & family therapist interns. Interns are admitted to the program quarterly. Interns pay a fee of $150 per month to cover part of the cost of this training program. During the 9/1/2015-8/31/2016 period program enrollment and income was as follows:first quarter (and 1 month of previous quarter) (9/1-12/31/16): 8 interns $4050second quarter (1/1-3/31/17): 7 interns $3000third quarter (4/1-6/30/17): 7 interns $2850fourth quarter (two month period 7/1-8/31/16): 7 interns $2400these figures include deposits paid by interns who will start their training program in october 2016.