When Mr. D requested therapy for himself and his two children, his wife had recently died from breast cancer.

His 14-year old son is small for his age and spoke of being bullied recently by his classmates, his grades were suffering and he was isolating himself.

The Jean Steirn Cancer Program linked them with a clinical social worker. After one month, Mr. D reported,

“I had no idea how helpful this could be. We actually look forward to it.” Of their therapist, “Ya’ll could not have picked a better person. I felt as though the compassion was already there the minute we walked in the room.”

After three months of therapy, Mr. D reported that the bullying stopped and, “We have started projects to help us cope. Like last weekend we started a flower garden and I couldn’t believe how therapeutic it was. . .We are moving through the grief process together.”

News & Events

Congratulations to the Pro Bono Counseling Project’s Executive Director, Barbara Anderson, for being accepted into Leadership Maryland. Leadership Maryland, an independent statewide leadership program to develop informed senior-level leaders, was created in 1992 to cultivate the interest, the statewide knowledge and the leadership capacities of Maryland’s leaders. Fifty accomplished and diverse leaders are selected for the program annually by their peers. They represent businesses, education, government, nonprofits and labor unions. The goal of Leadership Maryland is to ensure that each class includes diversity in ethnicity, age, gender, industry, and geography. It is this diversity of opinions and perspectives that makes the program meaningful and rewarding. Barbara is looking forward to this exceptional opportunity to promote the Pro Bono Counseling Project with some of the top leaders in Maryland.

LCPC of Maryland Partnering for Recruitment

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors of Maryland (LCPCM), the statewide professional association for LCPC’s, has partnered with the Pro Bono Counseling Project to help with recruitment of volunteer clinicians for the PBCP. In addition, if you are interested in joining LCPCM, please see their website at www.lcpcm.org. We thank the association’s Executive Director, Courtenay Culp, LCPC for assisting in this effort and coordinating the promotion of our organization through their website and other communications with their members. PBCP currently has 133 active volunteer LCPC’s and 18 LGPC’s.

With over 600 active clients, the Pro Bono Counseling project greatly appreciates these efforts to help recruit additional clinicians during this high volume period. We really need additional clinicians so that we may maintain our policy of never having a waiting list and “many hands make light work”.

You may enroll at any time by filling out the easy Enrollment Form or just calling our office at 877-323-5800 and asking for Ellen.

NEWS ARCHIVES

Komen Maryland Race for the Cure

Breast cancer survivor Ava Queen, a Pro Bono Counseling Project client, was featured in one of Susan G. Komen Maryland Affiliate's Race for the Cure promotional emails for the Baltimore race in October.

Please Note: The Pro Bono Counseling Project always ensures complete confidentiality of all client names and information. Ms. Queen has signed a consent for release of confidential information so she can tell her personal story of the support provided by PBCP and Susan G. Komen for the Cure Maryland Affiliate.

A Good Partnership!

The Pro Bono Counseling Project's Jean Steirn Cancer Program was featured in the latest DHMH Cancer Control Board progress report for work with cancer survivors across the state. Thank you DHMH!

Check us out on page 12 of the Cancer Control Success Stories Progress Report on the Maryland Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan!

MAD-AAMFT Volunteer Therapist Believing in Mission

PBCP's dedicated volunteer clinician Meg Tenny Verrani illustrated her belief in our mission by writing a lovely article about us in the Middle Atlantic Division American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy's Fall newsletter. Hats off to Meg for her vision and article which will let us recruit more dynamite clinicians! Click here to read the article on Page 7 of their fall newsletter.