Blog Post
Recognition for Partners in Recovery
3/5/2012
Last Monday (9-26-11), Judy McGehee MFT, Melissa Lamoureux MS, Erika Gayoso MA, Ted Aaselund PsyD, Michael Cardenas, Jeffrey Craig, Jessica Wilson, Elvia Cortes MA and myself were recognized by the board of the Glendora Unified School District at their monthly meeting. Formally, the agency is called "Partners in Recovery", a nonprofit organization of clinicians providing services in Glendora and surrounding communities.
Judy, and I have been providing clinical supervision (a necessary component for grads and soon-to-be grads to get their "hours of experience" to sit for licensure as therapists or social workers) for the above mentioned interns and trainees. Trainees are obtaining hours to graduate with their Masters degrees, interns are working on their hours (3000 hours of service over 104 weeks) to sit for the licensing examination with the Board of Behavioral Sciences. In turn, the supervisees (the ones above and others from previous years) have provided thousands of hours of free services to the Glendora Unified School district, from elementary thru high school. The supervisees from Partners have been assisting with issues of depression, abuse, family discord, eating disorders, suicide, addiction, grief and loss, bullying, self esteem, anxiety problems and more.
The program has been running since 2009 with Judy at the helm, and will continue at least through this year. Judy, Ted, and the interns/trainees are all highly skilled clinicians. It is a fantastic way for people to get services that might not have otherwise. Nicely done everybody.