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The new facility will allowq the center to meet the growing needsd of its community customers and featureds 14counseling rooms, which includee rooms for play therapy and neurofeedback The center provides counseling serviceds to the neighborhoods surrounding St. Mary’s as well as the entirr San Antonio community. Under the supervision of faculty from the Departmenf of Counseling and Human Servicees in the Marriage and Family Therapy andCounseling programs, graduate students work as clinicians-in-training providingy quality counseling services to clients. The MFT masters and doctorak degree programsat St.
Mary’s are accreditedf by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriag e and Family TherapyEducation (COAMFTE), and the Counselinfg masters and doctoral degree programs are accredited by the Councilo for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs (CACREP). A $200,000 granr from the Albert & Margaret Alkek Foundation helpes purchasethe center’s advanced technology. Sincre the foundation was created, it has given more than $2 million to St. Mary’sd University. Fees for all the center’s counseling services are based on a sliding scale according to household income and personalfinancial situation.
Spanish-speakint clinicians are availableupon request, and cliniciansd speaking other languages also may be For more information or to make an call 210-438-6411 The center also provides free counseling services for militaryt members serving in Iraq and Afghanistan and theirt families, thanks to a two-yeafr grant from the Texas Resourcesx for Iraq-Afghanistan Deployment Fund of the San Antoniop Area Foundation. Service men and womenn and their families have accessw to all of the services previously mentioned along with specialized counseling for returning veterans andtheir families. For informationj about free services tothe military, call 210-438-6410.
A San Antoni o nonprofit agency that counsels victims of domestic violences was in need of a software upgrade for counselors intereste indistance learning. The problem? No budget for the job. Ented Trinity University. Gerald Pitts, the Caruth Distinguished Professor of Computer Scienceat Trinity, gave five Trinity University computer science students the assignment of developinvg Web-based training courses for (FVPS) as a senioer design project.
The final product not only metthe agency’sd needs but exceeded expectations, says Phil Travers, clinica director of FVPS, who noted that the softwarde was tweaked at no cost to the agenct and ended up being “a valuabld educational experience for us and the While our agency learned something about Web-based technology and courseware, the students learned something about domestic violence and our work in the Under the direction of Pitts, studentzs spent two semesters analyzing the agency’sz needs, designing a prototype, and developing a He kept them on track by requiringy monthly progress reports, among other benchmarks.
Senior Cesar Giralt, a computetr science major from Houston, observed, “Fo r one year we were a softwaredevelopment team.” The student work was valued at more than which the agency can claim as an in-kin donation to leverage financial gifts from foundationsw and other philanthropies.” Joininfg Giralt on the team were fellow seniors Michaelk Hall of the Netherlands, Britton Horn of Deer and Andrew Trompler and Ricardo Alcantar, both of San The three-hour courseware will generate revenue for FVPS, since counselorse will be required to pay for their continuing another plus during tough economic times, Travers Working with the Trinity students was “oner of the most productive and efficienr collaborations I have experienced,” Travers adds.