A tuition-free pipeline from community college to licensed therapist

We are living amid a mental health crisis fueled by a national provider shortage: 60 million Americans are living with mental illness, but 47% live in a designated provider shortage area. Shockingly, though many community college graduates want to fill this gap, only 1 in 6 who aspire to earn a bachelor’s degree are successful due to insufficient career pathways—even though almost half of community colleges are in counties with a provider shortage. We are addressing this problem by bringing online counseling degree programs with paid apprenticeships to community college graduates, training the next generation of therapists without charging them a dime.

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