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UMKC ★  Belonging, Health, Training & Professional Development

Community Counseling and Assessment Services (CCAS)

UMKC Community Counseling and Assessment Services (CCAS) is a counselor and psychologist training center that provides affordable counseling and assessment services to Kansas City’s diverse and under-served populations on a sliding fee scale.

ongoing: CCAS is open for services Monday through Friday, with evening hours available several days of the week. See the CCAS website for open hours each semester.
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Community Counseling and Assessment Services (CCAS)

UMKC Community Counseling and Assessment Services (CCAS) offers a wide range of affordable mental health services to Kansas City’s diverse and under-served populations, including:

  • individual counseling;
  • couples and family counseling; and, 
  • assessment in any areas of concern including depression, anxiety, loneliness, familial and relationship issues, stress-related problems, issues surrounding sexuality or gender, and academic/vocational issues.  

Practicum students are specifically trained on multicultural awareness and competence to work with a broad range of clients who represent various kinds of diversity, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, age, religion, and disability status. Both our current faculty and our students are diverse: 80% of our faculty and 44% of our student practitioners are either Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC), LGBTQ+, and/or have a disability.

CCAS is currently offering telehealth counseling services during the pandemic and hybrid telehealth assessment services. 

Research shows that as few as eight counseling sessions can reduce symptoms for those suffering from depression, anxiety disorders, or other mental health concerns. Counseling can also help families or couples that are struggling with issues of divorce, abuse, addiction, and loss. 

Comprehensive testing services are often needed for children, adolescents, and adults who experience such things as low grades in school, difficulty paying attention or following directions, and problems with social skills to determine whether learning, attention deficit, emotional, or behavioral disorders are present. CCAS provides comprehensive diagnostic assessments to those who do not have access to health insurance or other healthcare resources. All assessments include written recommendations for intervention, accommodations, and/or referrals. 

When problems presented are not within the CCAS’s scope of practice, appropriate referral resources are identified for clients.

CCAS is administered by the Counseling and Counseling Psychology (CCP) Division in the School of Education at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and provides training opportunities to graduate students from CCP, the Department of Psychology, and the Department of Social Work. 


Impact

In 12 months, CCAS provided 2,419 counseling sessions to 349 individuals. Our fees are greatly reduced, with costs ranging between $0 - $50 based on a sliding scale. One-fourth of clients pay $15 or less per session. 30% of our clients are unemployed, and another 34% are employed only part-time. Thirty-two percent of clients report an annual income of less than $20,000, and around the same percentage of clients indicated that they do not have any insurance. Recent client race/ethnicity statistics indicate nearly 40% identify as People of Color, and nearly 40% identify as LGBTQ.
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Community Counseling and Assessment Services, Counseling, COVID-19, Department of Psychology, Department of Social Work, Mental Health, Nonprofit, Public Health, School of Education

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ongoing

Contacts

Community Counseling and Assessment Services
  umkcccasservices@umkc.edu
  816-235-2725
  https://seswps.umkc.edu/outreach/community-counseling-and-assessment-services.html
Kathryn Brewer, PhD, LPC, CCTP, NCC, BC-TMH
  816-235-5614

Location

  615 E 52nd St, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA

More Information

https://education.umkc.edu/outreach-research/community-counseling-and-assessment-services/

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