Give on September 17
Care that is already there
Asking for help is not the hard part. What happens next usually is.
A phone number. A waitlist. A referral across town to a place that does not take your insurance. For a lot of people in North Texas, that gap is where the whole thing falls apart.
The Center works to close it.
Since 1968, we have provided counseling, psychological assessment and mental health education across North and Central Texas. Our mission is to make counseling accessible to those who need it, including individuals and families facing financial barriers to care.
Through our Partnerships for Accessible Counseling and Training program, our counselors work inside nonprofit organizations people in a community already use and already trust. The places where they pick up groceries, see a doctor, get help finding work, drop off their kids. In those buildings the counselor is not a referral. The counselor is down the hall.
That changes who actually gets care. Last year eight of our therapists, six of them bilingual, provided about 4,000 counseling sessions to 350 people at eight nonprofit partner locations. For most of them, cost or distance would otherwise have decided the answer.
Presence takes time. We have been doing this since 2014, and what we have proven is not complicated. Stay in a community long enough and people stop having to be convinced to walk in.
Sometimes we are able to share the cost of that presence with our partner organizations. In some communities there is nothing to share, and we are there anyway. That is the part your gift pays for.
We also show up when something happens to a community here. A flood, a shooting, a loss at work. Those calls do not come with funding attached either.
Fees and insurance sustain our care. Philanthropy carries it into the places neither one reaches.
$50 extends access to a neighbor who might not otherwise have it.
$100 supports one hour of counseling and the relationship-building moments that open doors to healing.
$250 launches a journey of care, so a counselor can be present and stay present.
$500 helps a counselor show up in a community where care would not otherwise reach.
Our mission is to provide accessible, high-quality counseling, training, psychological evaluations, and educational testing that equip people to grow through life’s changes and challenges.
We need your donations to support our life-changing work in underserved communities:
• Counseling for children, teens, adults, and families in underserved communities
• Educational and diagnostic testing for children
• Parent-child Interaction Therapy
Families in poverty and minorities face a variety of barriers to receiving counseling such as language, geography, transportation, lack of financial resources, and social stigma. The inability to access care is a brutal cycle, because mental illness further prevents families from finding stability and ending the cycle of poverty, and in turn prevents children from reaching their potential in school.
The Center has established the Partnerships for Accessible Counseling and Training program (PACT) to make mental health care accessible to those who face barriers to receiving help. Through PACT, we make professional counseling and psychological assessments financially and geographically available to those with inadequate access to these life-changing services.
Help us bring hope, healing and growth to underserved communities by giving this North Texas Giving Day.
The Center for Integrative Counseling and Psychology is committed to its mission of providing accessible, high-quality counseling, training, psychological evaluations, and educational testing that equip people to grow through life's changes and challenges. We strive to provide an inclusive environment free of discrimination where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity, have equal opportunities, and can contribute fully to our team and the clients and communities in which they serve. It is our policy and practice to comply with all applicable laws, regulations and directives of the federal, state, and local governments relating to Affirmative Action policies and non-discrimination in employment.
Organization name
The Center for Integrative Counseling and Psychology
Tax id (EIN)
75-1494691
Causes
Mental and Behavioral Health
Operating Budget
$3,000,000 - $9,999,999
Counties Served
Collin, Dallas, Ellis, Tarrant
Address
4305 MacArthur Ave