A Home Within Has Exciting News for Psychologists!
A Home Within is thrilled to announce that we’ve acquired approval through the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer CE credits to psychologists! We want to thank all the psychologists in our community for their patience as we updated our systems to ensure our CE program complies with the rigorous standards of the APA. If you’re a licensed mental health clinician interested in A Home Within, attending one of our CE trainings is a great way to engage with our community — you can sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date on our calendar of CE offerings.
What Makes Our CE Program Different?
A Home Within cultivates relationships with therapists, thought leaders, community activists, policy makers, and families throughout the nation committed to providing trauma-informed practice, which includes understanding the impacts of culture, class, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, structural racism, and inequality on the population we serve. A Home Within has committed and responded to the moral imperative to diversify the lens through which trauma is understood, narrated, and intervened on in clinical and non-clinical settings.
Our curriculum facilitates a learning environment in which diversity of thought and practice, resiliency, intersectionality, cultural attunement, and community building are valued and integrated into essential pillars to support engagement and healing across the lifespan. Moreover, A Home Within aspires to support mental health professionals at each stage of their career to gain skills and deploy various clinical modalities to address the “person-in-environment.”
All trainings are committed to exploring how the social determinants of health influence poor mental health outcomes for system-involved youth, their families, and communities. We welcome a sustained dialogue on these issues in our trainings to lift up collective resources, expertise, and narrations of hope from our members.
We invite you to join us at our next CE event!
To view our full calendar of CE offerings, visit the “Events” page on our website: www.ahomewithin.org/events/
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Executive Director: Reed Connell
Mission
With a mission to create and support lasting, caring relationships for children and youth in foster care, A Home Within identifies, recruits, trains, and supports a network of licensed therapists who each provide free, weekly, one-to-one therapy to a single foster youth “for as long as it takes.” For foster youth who often watch people move in and out of their lives, our model creates an anchor of support.
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Relational pro bono therapy can be life saving. The relational, financial, and mental health support of A Home Within has the power to heal attachment wounds, connect individuals to vital resources, and provide a very core basic need of consistent, safe, and reliable source of emotional support that one may not have otherwise.
Helping More Foster Youth Get the Therapy They Need
Committed, compassionate volunteer clinicians are at the heart of A Home Within’s mission to offer free, open-ended, individual, relationship-based therapy to foster youth. With staggering numbers of foster youth needing and seeking therapy, more volunteer clinicians continue to be needed.
Executive Director Reed Connell says, “It is likely we’ll hit 750 volunteers this year, and may double it next year. We are looking for $500,000 a year, for the next three years, to support our extraordinary growth and effectively double the number of young people we serve.”
The funding would allow the volunteer clinician community to keep expanding, creating a more robust cohort. “If we’re supporting the mental health workforce’s retention of therapists of color with LGBTQIA, native therapists and so on, we are improving the quality of the mental health field as a whole,” says Connell.
Key Supporters
May and Stanley Smith
Charitable Trust
Sarnat-Hoffman Family Foundation
In-N-Out Burger Foundation
Kaiser Permanente
MYDAR Foundation
Glass Half Full Fund
Mental Insight Foundation
Aviv Foundation
The Louis and Harold Price
Foundation
Pritzker Foster Care Initiative
CASA Organizations
Throughout California
Foster Care Research Group
at the University of San Francisco
11 California Family Foundations
Over 400 Individual Donors