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Student Outreach

It is the intention of LAGPA to reach out to you, the budding mental health professional, even now as you complete your years of formal training. We wish to serve you to the fullest capacity that we can, and seek to offer you the opportunity to develop your voice within the gay and lesbian mental health field. We need to know how we can best serve you, and are eager to extend to you whatever assistance that we can.

Here's how LAGPA can help you...

• Through the development of a governmental interface and monitoring program, that will promote the needs and concerns of our membership, and alert the membership to current and proposed policies effecting our community and professional practice.
• Through the development of our mentoring program, so as to help you find the "right" person to help you on your journey to becoming an excellent psychotherapist.
• Through the growing referral service and networking programs that LAGPA sponsors.
• By being the only association in Southern California to offer a full program of education designed for those who work within the gay and lesbian community as a psychotherapist.
• By inviting you to submit a letter of interest in presenting your work in our poster session at our annual conference.
• As we expand our technology to reach a wider body of persons in need of your education and training, we invite your input in the creation and management of our web page.
• As we look for fresh ideas and approaches to serving the membership, and the gay and lesbian mental health field at large, you can have an impact on policy, program development, information systems, and other areas which LAGPA is currently developing.
• By offering a low fee for membership, of only forty dollars ($40).
• As we actively seek persons who wish to help students preparing for a career in mental health by financial means, we will be able to offer scholarships and grants sometime in the near future

And these are just the few ideas for you to begin exploring. We look forward to hearing what you have to say, and letting us know what we can do to help you and what you are able to help us through your talents, time, and enthusiasm to help others just like you now and in time to come.

Dont wait till you're licensed to act--you dont have to!