A Community Counseling Center Model for Multicultural and Social Justice Counselor Education

ABSTRACT

The Community Counseling, Education, and Research Center (CCERC) model addresses a critical public health need for accessible, affordable, high-quality mental health services focused on wellness. Within a southeastern urban community, the multicultural and social justice foundation of the model responds to systemic needs and creates an optimal learning environment for counselor education graduate students, unavailable in traditional health-care and human service systems. A client study is offered to demonstrate the application of the model.

KEYWORDS:

• Counseling practice
• counselor education
• multicultural issues
• prevention/wellness
• social justice issues