Increasing Diversity in the Helping Professions

[The Relational Center]

The Relational Center is committed to ensuring that more people of color and other minorities enter the fields of mental health care and organizational development, influence service delivery, and reshape theories of human behavior to take into account the perspectives and cultural differences of their own communities. By increasing the diversity of helping professionals, The Relational Center is ensuring expanded access to appropriate, culturally sensitive, high-quality service for underserved consumer groups, including people of color, sexual minorities, and economically disadvantaged communities. With our focus on consumer-driven service planning and evaluation, The Relational Center is putting influence back into the hands of the people in greatest need of help. To guarantee services are accessible and usable, we are committed to designing all of our programs to accommodate our consumers' unique situations, including their limitations and their strengths. The programs and services offered by The Relational Center are designed to be critiqued and redesigned by the people we want to help.

If you have any comments you'd like to make regarding our mission or concerns or suggestions you'd like us to take into account in our efforts to expand access to more culturally competent care, please feel free to post here! Thanks.