Center for Rural Psychology: Support CRP

We rely on financial support to fulfill our mission of training and consultation. As a not-for-profit organization, we are able to accept your donations to support our mission. Donations go directly toward the costs of training and supervising graduate students and toward consultation and training in underserved rural communities. If you are in the neighborhood, we also need volunteers with the energy and skills to help a small but growing organization provide Big Hopes for Small Towns.

The Center for Rural Psychology has a two-prong mission. We train psychology graduate students to serve in rural areas, and we work to meet the mental health needs of underserved rural communities. This year we are training one full-time predoctoral intern and five graduate practicum students. Last month one new graduate student told me she came to Wheaton College specifically because she hoped to study rural psychology from a Christian perspective through CRP. One of our CRP trainees, Natalie, is preparing to return to her Iowa hometown with her husband and daughter. A third, Julie, is working at a rural youth ranch in Arkansas. Jamie, our full-time intern last year, teaches rural psychology courses in Mississippi and researches the effects of hurricane Katrina on the rural poor.

Please note that your credit card statement will read JustGive, but the money still comes to the Center for Rural Psychology! We save a lot of bank and credit card fees by using JustGive's secure online donation service.

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