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This crisis of care is exacerbated in underserved communities.\u00a0 This program was created to support students who want to pursue clinical work that will help address that gap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outcome Data<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since its founding in 2021, the Psychology Professionals of Tomorrow program has continued to make strides.\u00a0 Our students have been accepted to an array of Masters (LPC or School Psychology) and Clinical PsyD programs.\u00a0 To date, 93% of our mentees who have engaged in application cycles have been placed in clinical graduate programs.\u00a0 Please see our members page for more on where our mentees are currently receiving training.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/psychology-professionals-of-tomorrow\/affiliations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Members <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Funding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Psychology Professionals of Tomorrow was a 2021 recipient of the <a href=\"https:\/\/diversity.rutgers.edu\/node\/705\">RU-N IDEA Innovation Grant Award<\/a>.\u00a0 This grant supported our mentees in their graduate school preparation and professional development goals.<\/p>\n<p>Psychology Professionals to Tomorrow was a 2021 recipient of the <a href=\"https:\/\/bttop.org\/bringing-it-55-announcing-the-way-forward-grant-recipients\/\">&#8220;The Way Forward<\/a>&#8221; grant.\u00a0 This grant supported our mentees in their professional development, graduate school preparation, graduation school application fees, GRE testing fees, helped us to build a mentee library, and provided stipends for mentees in their first semester in graduate school.\u00a0 We were honored to have this support as we piloted this mentorship initiative that year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background In September 2020, the National Council for Behavioral Health called upon Congress to take action to prevent \u201ca second public health epidemic\u201d\u2014a reference to the diminished systemic capacity for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/psychology-professionals-of-tomorrow\/sample-page\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Program Rationale - Psychology Professionals of Tomorrow<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/psychology-professionals-of-tomorrow\/sample-page\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Program Rationale - Psychology Professionals of Tomorrow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Background In September 2020, the National Council for Behavioral Health called upon Congress to take action to prevent \u201ca second public health epidemic\u201d\u2014a reference to the diminished systemic capacity for &hellip; 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