Faculty Loan Repayment Program (FLRP)

Faculty Loan Repayment Program (FLRP)

The purpose of FLRP is to increase the recruitment and retention of faculty members from disadvantaged backgrounds in eligible health professions disciplines who have a health professions degree or certificate to serve at an eligible health professions school for a minimum of 2 years

FLRP is administered by the Bureau of Clinician Recruitment and Service (BCRS) within the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).  HRSA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). 

HRSA continues to strengthen its commitment to address health care workforce issues by supporting the repayment of costs incurred while pursuing a career in the health professions and dedication to preparing the next generation of health professionals.

What are the benefits of the FLRP?

Service - By joining the past and current FLRP participants across the country, participants

have an opportunity to train and serve as role models for the next generation of health professionals.

Loan Repayment - FLRP will provide funds to program participants to repay qualifying educational loans.

FLRP will award a lump sum, up to a maximum of $40,000, for a two-year service obligation.  All loan repayments paid to the participant must be used to repay qualifying educational loans.   

Tax Assistance Payment - FLRP payments are subject to Federal income tax and Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) taxes.  To assist participants in meeting their tax burden, they receive an additional amount (equal to 39% of the loan repayment amount), which FLRP withholds (pays directly to the IRS) on behalf of the participants’ for their Federal income and FICA tax liability. All FLRP payments and Federal taxes withheld will be reported to the participant and the IRS on a Form W-2 after the end of the tax year.  These FLRP payments may also be subject to State and local income tax.

Find more information at

http://bhpr.hrsa.gov

Books for Us and Our Clients

Lately we have been recommending each other various books that can help us better organize our practicum experience and inspire our clients. Those books were shown in different classes by students and faculty and some of us did not get a chance to learn about them.
Here they are:

Documentation in Counseling Records (by Mitchell, 2001).

 

Offers practical guidelines on how to keep client records that are legally, clinically, and fiscally sound. Identifies uses of a record and those who have access to it, looks at the most frequent causes for a malpractice suit, and demonstrates how records can be used to enhance the service relationship and promote consumer empowerment.

The Paper Office: Forms, Guidelines, and Resources to Make Your Practice Work Ethically, Legally, and Profitably.

Manual and CD-ROM provide the clinical, financial, and legal record-keeping tools that every psychotherapy practice needs. It is ideal both for new practitioners who want to hit the ground running, and seasoned pros who want to overhaul their paperwork and risk-reduction procedures. Included are methods for documenting informed consent, treatment planning, and progress; advice on fee structures, competitive pricing, and billing; tips on joining managed care panels and communicating with MCO reviewers; and much more. New or expanded coverage is provided of such topics as managed care, clinical supervision, ethical marketing practices, malpractice insurance, and online resources.

Simon Says Dream: Live a Passionate Life (by Simon Bailey)

Are you tired of being connected to life’s negative forces (mediocrity, worry, fear, feeling unimportant, feeling unappreciated, unable to be what you want to become, etc.)? Being Yourself Matters is an inspiring, motivating, and thought provoking confessional, the purpose of this book is to cause you, the reader, to become excited about being yourself and to encourage you to take action NOW in exploring life without negative boundaries. It will stir-up your hunger to discover and connect with your authentic-self.

Release Your Brilliance: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World (by Simon Bailey)

Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and experiences. Eventually, we forget that we ever had genius and special talents, and our brilliance is locked away in a vault deep within. So we settle for who we are, instead of striving for who we were meant to be.

Release Your Brilliance provides the combination to the vault where your brilliance is kept. After struggling for thirty-two years with disillusion, defeat, and despair, author Simon T. Bailey cracked the code to personal transformation, turning his life around and becoming a highly successful entrepreneur, respected family man and community leader. Using the metaphor that we're all diamonds in the rough, Simon shares the four key steps to cut and polish the gem that is you in order to reawaken your genius, reignite your internal light, and release your potential.

Martin Seligman on positive psychology

Martin Seligman talks about psychology - as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?



See more Ted Talks on all kinds of subjects.

DCCA Membership Kick-off and Open House

Professional counselors, Graduate students and Retired counselors are invited.

When: September 29, 2010, from 5 to 7pm.

Where: Gallaudet University, Fowler Hall-Room 101A., 800 Florida Avenue, NE, Washington, D.C. 20002-3695. Map.

Cost: Free! Refreshments will be provided.

The purpose of this event is to inform members and potential members about the Association, events that District of Columbia Counselors Association has already held and future events. At this event we will have special guests. The new ACA president, Marcheta Evans and ACA Executive Director, Richard Yep will be in attendance at the beginning of the meeting. Please come EARLY! They will have to leave to attend another engagement.

Also, bring a friend (or two) and your business cards so that you can network.

RSVP by calling or emailing:

Ms. Therese Farmer, DCCA President –Elect

(301) 814-6002

dcca1964@aol.com

ThereseFarmer@aol.com

10th Annual Leadership Institute and Career Fair (New York)

The Annual Leadership Institute & Career Fair is the premier recruitment conference for public HBCU students. One of the main components of the Leadership Institute is the Career Fair, where students meet with over 60 companies and government agencies offering job and internship opportunities. 

The school will pay for your trip to New York if you get selected for the participation based on your interview (currently there is no quota, so every eligible student may come). The interviews will be held on September 20, 2010 on campus, Bldg 39, Room 120.

Resumes must be submitted and interviews must be scheduled by noon on Friday September 17, 2010.

Resumes can be submitted via email to rweston@udc.edu

With all of your questions contact Renisha Weston, Office of Financial Aid,  Bldg 39, Rm 101, 202-274-6019.

The fair will be held from October 29 to November 1, 2010.

See details on the Thurgood Marshall College Fund web site.

 

Sharing Useful Links

American Counseling Association:
www.counseling.org

American Counseling Association Foundation:
www.acafoundation.org

Topics related to counseling and psychology (peer reviewed information since 1995):
www.psychcentral.com

Locating professional journals:
www.psycline.org

Resources and links to different counseling disciplines, online journals, licensure information, and software:
www.psychwatch.com

Information and resources for mental health consumers, professionals, and students:
www.mental-health-matters.com

Do you know any useful links? Share them here.