Career Education through Community Engagement Fund
The WSU Psychology Clinic is a training clinic for doctoral students in Clinical Psychology. The clinic provides students with evidence-based, cutting-edge training to develop into licensed mental health professionals who are able to confidently work with communities most in need of services.
The wellbeing of the agricultural community in Washington State is at the core of WSU’s mission as a land grant university, not only with respect to agricultural production, crop and livestock health. The wellbeing of the farmers, agricultural workers, and their families is another critical area requiring support. Alarming numbers of deaths by suicide in this community and farms forced out of business demand that we increase our efforts to train culturally aware mental health service providers, who are able to work effectively with farmers and agricultural workers. Training efforts need to address awareness of the adversities that farmers encounter, knowledge of available resources and connection with networks able to provide support, and most importantly, specific intervention tools and interpersonal approaches that are geared towards farmers’ and agricultural workers’ experience.
As a department we are committed to training future providers of therapy and assessment services that will have a positive impact on the agricultural community in Washington State. Since our students seek further training and employment across the US, our training will also establish a pipeline for future experts in working with the agricultural community nationwide. Please support us in our efforts to train culturally aware and effective mental health providers that can have a positive impact on a community that is essential for our food production by visiting #CougsGive and donating to Career Education through Community Engagement Fund on December 3rd, 2024.
Thank you for your support and GO Cougs!
