Greensboro, NC (PRWEB) June 15, 2013
The NBCC Foundation, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), lately chosen Robert M. Cox of Memphis, Tennessee, for the National Board for Certified Counselors Minority Fellowship Program (NBCC MFP). As an NBCC MFP Fellow, Mr. Cox will receive funding and education to help his education and facilitate his service to underserved minority populations.

The NBCC MFP is made attainable by a grant awarded to NBCC by the Substance Abuse and Mental Wellness Solutions Administration (SAMHSA) in August 2012. The Foundation is contracted by NBCC to administer the NBCC MFP, as effectively as education and collaboration activities that will be open to all National Certified Counselors. The aim of the program is to strengthen the infrastructure that engages diverse individuals in counseling and increases the number of specialist counselors offering effective, culturally competent services to underserved populations.

The NBCC MFP has distributed $ 20,000 education awards to Mr. Cox and the 23 other doctoral-level counseling students selected to receive the fellowship award. Robert Cox is a graduate of Appalachian State University and is pursuing a doctoral degree in counselor education at the University of Memphis. Mr. Coxs perform experiences consist of chemical dependency and crisis intervention counseling. As an NBCC MFP Fellow, he plans to serve as a counselor educator who encourages counselors to create knowledge in addictions, crisis interventions and mental well being treatment, and to investigation how behavioral health services in standard healthcare settings can increase access to solutions for underserved people.

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

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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 specialist counseling. At the moment, there are a lot more than 52,000 National Certified Counselors in the United States and a lot more than 50 nations.