Greensboro, NC (PRWEB) June 26, 2013
The NBCC Foundation, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), lately selected Asha D. McAdory of Hoover, Alabama, for the National Board for Certified Counselors Minority Fellowship Plan (NBCC MFP). As an NBCC MFP Fellow, Ms. McAdory will obtain funding and training to assistance her education and facilitate her service to underserved minority populations.

The NBCC MFP is made feasible by a grant awarded to NBCC by the Substance Abuse and Mental Overall health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in August 2012. The Foundation is contracted by NBCC to administer the NBCC MFP, as effectively as coaching and collaboration activities that will be open to all National Certified Counselors. The goal of the program is to strengthen the infrastructure that engages diverse individuals in counseling and increases the number of expert counselors delivering efficient, culturally competent services to underserved populations.

The NBCC MFP has distributed $ 20,000 education awards to Ms. McAdory and the 23 other doctoral-level counseling students chosen to acquire the fellowship award. Asha McAdory is a graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is at the moment pursuing a doctoral degree in counselor education and supervision at Auburn University. Ms. McAdory is the 2012 recipient of the Alabama Counseling Associations Miles-Seymour Award for outstanding doctoral students. She at present serves as the loved ones and neighborhood service coordinator for Fellowship Residence, Inc., a private, nonprofit, substance abuse recovery plan made to serve the special requirements of folks who suffer from alcoholism and/or drug addiction and other mental illnesses. Ms. McAdorys goal as an NBCC MFP Fellow is to educate, encourage and enrich the lives of her clientele, students, employees and the community through her commitment to advocacy, mental well being and leadership.

The Foundation plans to open the next NBCC MFP application period in December 2013. To discover much more about the NBCC MFP and its fellows, please pay a visit to http://www.nbccf.org/mfp.

About the NBCC Foundation

The NBCC Foundation is an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), primarily based in Greensboro, North Carolina. NBCC is the nations premier skilled certification board devoted to credentialing counselors who meet standards for the basic and specialty practices of skilled counseling. At the moment, there are far more than 52,000 National Certified Counselors in the United States and a lot more than 50 countries.