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Westside Psychological Services Receives $50,000 Grant from the Butterfield Foundation
Funds to enable the purchase of testing kits and computer equipment for cognitive assessments
Westside Psychological Services at Roberts Wesleyan University was recently awarded a $50,000 grant from the Butterfield Foundation, which provides grants to Christian nonprofit organizations that meet the whole-person health care needs of people who are underserved or uninsured. The funds will enable the clinic to become more self-sustaining by supporting the purchase of new testing kits and computer equipment, including a variety of clinical tools, cognitive measures and assessment instruments used to evaluate and diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
“We’re grateful to the Butterfield Foundation for this generous gift, which will significantly improve our ability to provide psychological assessment services to the Greater Rochester community and expand Westside Psychological Services,” said Dr. Cheryl Repass, professor of psychology, department chair and traditional undergraduate/graduate program co-director at Roberts Wesleyan University. “The testing kits will expand access to ASD evaluation services to keep pace with the demand in our area for these evaluations and will also allow for additional student clinicians to serve more clients each week.”
Westside Psychological Services at Roberts Wesleyan University provides a broad range of affordable, evidence-based assessment and therapy services for children, adolescents, families and adults. Part of the Community Institutes at the university, Westside Psychological Services also serves as a training center for psychotherapy and diagnostics, where clinicians assess and treat clients using approaches that are validated by recent research and matched to the individual needs of clients. Clinicians include staff psychologists, faculty members in the Roberts Wesleyan University psychology department, and doctoral students in the university’s clinical/school psychology program working under the supervision of licensed faculty.
Earlier this year, Westside Psychological Services celebrated the grand opening of its new stand-alone facility in the Chesbro Center at 7 College Green Drive, located just off Buffalo Road. The new private and convenient location expanded the facility to five clinician offices, a play therapy room, two group therapy rooms, a computer learning lab and two classrooms, broadening the clinic’s ability to provide high-demand services to meet growing mental health needs in the community.
For more information, please visit the Westside Psychological Services website.
About Butterfield Foundation
The Foundation provides grants to Christian nonprofit organizations that meet the whole person healthcare needs of the underserved or uninsured. Its mission is focused on the physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being of others. Since its inception, more than $36,000,000 in granting and program funds have been given to organizations in Oklahoma and around the world.