Phillips Graduate University

Programs: The academic programs educate, train and prepare students for careers in the following areaas: marriage and family therapy, school counseling, marriage and family therapy/art therapy, school psychology, clinical psychology, and organizational consulting where applicable, all educational requirements at the state-level are strictly adhered to in all academic programs (mft mft/at, sc, sp and cpdp), allowing the students to pursue the appropriate professional credentials necessary for success. Continuing education/extension provides adjunctive education and training to studnets, interns and licensed professionals. This education and training enhances the professional development of therapists, counselors and consultants as well as fulfills state licensure requirements as aplicable.

the counseling center at phillips graduate institute trains and supervises students and post-graduate interns in preparation for licensures as marriage and family therapists to extend mental health services to the public. At large, phillips subsidizes the counseling center operations in order to provide low-fee counseling services to the local community, under served populations and off-site partners.

the california department of mental health initiated educational stipend programs for various disciplines including marriage and family therapists in an effort to address the need for mental health professionals in underserved communities funded through the mental health services act (mhsa). The stipend programs are part of a larger workforce plan to recruit, train and retain professionals committed to a career in public mental health practice. The california educational mft stipend program is an incentive program to recruit mft graduates and address workforce shortages in mental health care throughout the state in order to implement a statewide recruitment of mft students for these stipends, the professional organizations and the mft school administrators formed a network of five regional consortia that rechead 19 counties. Phillips graduate institute is administering the delivery of sixty stipends through its partnership with the regional consortia. The selected and awarded mft graduates provide mental health services in understaffed improvished ethnic or racial communities. Many awarded mft graduates are able to provide mental health services in threshold languages other than english and address and can proide clinical services to populations requiring professionals with bilingual and multicultural capacities through the application process. The awarded mft graduates demonstrated a commitment to serving as professionals, the disadvantaged communities where they grew up or still live. Some disclosed their family's challenges of having a member with mental illness and with the struggles of inadequate care, limited resourced and the stigma they experienced. The stipend recipients expressed a desire to continue their dedication to community service as practitioners in the public mental health delivery system.