Nurture an all-Quaker counseling service so it can nurture Friends in need!
Recently Friends Counseling Service Advisory Panel found joy and fulfillment! Here’s how:
- We were recently brought a concern from the PYM Finance Department that gave us an occasion to rethink our business plan. As one step in that, we were able to raise our counselors’ reimbursement rates!
This is a current or upcoming project or interesting thing the Advisory Panel is working on:
- We are working on best practices in telehealth.
People who participate in FCS Advisory can learn and grow in this way:
- Friends can learn about pastoral care, ethics of providing professional counseling within the framework of one’s own spiritual community, and ways to make a private practice financially sustainable while maintaining a radically inclusive sliding scale.
FCS Advisory functions at its best when there are people serving on it who have these skills or experiences:
- Some familiarity or expertise with the ethics, laws, and regulations around private practice counseling and telehealth,
- experience with or concern for mental health
The realistic time commitment of members of the Advisory Panel includes:
- The group meets 2 to 3 times per year, for 2 hours.
- A limited amount of preparation is necessary for each meeting.
- Terms: A term is three years, renewable once
Membership:
- Members of committees are appointed by the council they serve. FCS Advisory is under Quaker Life Council
- Ideally there are 4 members and the committee will soon need one member
With Divine assistance, the QLC Friends Counseling Service Advisory Panel ensures that the procedures of staff and Friends Counseling Service counselors are aligned with professional standards of care and sustainable business practice.
To reach the panel directly, email Janaki Spickard-Keeler, Friends Counseling Service Coordinator, at jspickardkeeler@pym.org.
Members:
- Jean-Marie Prestwidge Barch – Schuylkill Meeting
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Robert Greene – Princeton Meeting
- Danielle Havelin – Old Haverford, Friends Counseling Service counselor
- Janaki Spickard-Keeler – Friends Counseling Service Coordinator, ex officio
