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Waco Partnership for Psychological and Spiritual Care

Waco, Texas

Cause Description:
The Need: Counseling helps people move through difficult experiences more quickly, but the expense of counseling is a luxury many folks can't afford. Options for sliding-scale counseling in Waco are extremely limited. Also, when the Samaritan Center closed a few years ago Waco lost its only agency that offered pastoral counseling. We have a particular concern for public school teachers, social agency workers, and ministers. These people serve our community in jobs which are typically high stress, and often low pay. We all benefit when these public servants are able to bring their best gifts to their work. Our Solution: We decided that the best way to address this need was to subsidize the work of counselors in town who have already demonstrated that they are good at their work, and who have shown their knowledge of and respect for the spiritual and religious dimensions of life. So, rather than create some sort of organization with a ton of overhead, we will simply be subsidizing fees so established therapists can work with more low fee clients. As of October, 2008, the board has raised over $15,000 and has provided nearly $12,000 in clinical services (subsidized counseling and psychiatric care) to numerous individuals and couples.

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