Calling All Peace Corps and Pacifica Alums!
We Need Your Help to Spread the Word!
Pacifica’s Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology, and Ecopsychology Specialization (CLE) of the Depth Psychology Program was recently welcomed as a partner program for the Peace Corps’ Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program. Two successful applicants a year will receive $10,000 of tuition help for three years of study at Pacifica.
“The Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program (formerly known as Fellows/USA) is a graduate fellowship program that offers financial assistance to returned Peace Corps Volunteers. All Fellows complete internships in underserved American communities, allowing them to bring home, and expand upon, the skills they learned as Volunteers. These skills in adapting to new cultures, developing and managing projects, dealing with language barriers, and leveraging limited resources attract the attention of prospective schools. Since the inception of the Coverdell Fellows Program, nearly 4,000 returned Volunteers have participated in the program and made a difference across the country.” (http://www.peacecorps.gov/volunteer/graduate/fellows/)
We need your help to spread the word about Pacifica and the CLE program at Pacifica to Returning Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) in your geographical area. Also, once we have some Coverdell Fellows, we would love to have you be Peace Corps/Pacifica “Buddies” for them. The CLE program is ideally suited to help RPCVs learn the theories and skills that can help them work at the community level around a wide variety of individual, cultural, and ecological issues. If you are interested in helping, please email Mary Watkins, mwatkins@pacifica.edu
Read what our students and faculty are working on! The C.L.E. Newsletter, Volume 2; Hearing Voices
http://www.peacecorps.gov/
