Greensboro, NC (PRWEB) June 29, 2013
The NBCC Foundation, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), lately chosen Ajita M. Robinson of Gaithersburg, Maryland, for the National Board for Certified Counselors Minority Fellowship Plan (NBCC MFP). As an NBCC MFP Fellow, Ms. Robinson will get funding and coaching to help her education and facilitate her service to underserved minority populations.

The NBCC MFP is produced attainable by a grant awarded to NBCC by the Substance Abuse and Mental Wellness 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 aim of the program is to strengthen the infrastructure that engages diverse men and women in counseling and increases the quantity of specialist counselors delivering powerful, culturally competent solutions to underserved populations.

The NBCC MFP has distributed $ 20,000 education awards to Ms. Robinson and the 23 other doctoral-level counseling students selected to obtain the fellowship award. Ajita Robinson is a graduate of Saint Louis University and is enrolled in George Washington Universitys counselor education and supervision plan. Ms. Robinson has a private practice, exactly where she operates with people, families and groups. She has lectured at numerous area universities and is an adjunct faculty member at Trinity Washington University in Washington, DC. As an NBCC MFP Fellow, Ms. Robinson hopes to turn out to be a extremely trained and skilled member of an active neighborhood of mental wellness clinicians who are dedicated to decreasing wellness disparity gaps in underserved youth. She also appears forward to getting mentorship from other colleagues and authorities in the field and gaining access to worthwhile resources that will let her to offer much better quality of care to the clients she at present serves and intends to serve in the future.

The Foundation plans to open the next NBCC MFP application period in December 2013. To discover far more about the NBCC MFP and its fellows, please pay a visit to 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 professional certification board devoted to credentialing counselors who meet requirements for the general and specialty practices of skilled counseling. Currently, there are a lot more than 52,000 National Certified Counselors in the United States and far more than 50 countries.





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