Agency Description

The training of Mental Health Professionals is an essential part of the mission of the Portia Bell Hume Behavioral Health and Training Center. The Hume Center is dedicated to the development of excellence in training of psychologists in practicum students, predoctoral interns, and postdoctoral fellows as it supports its trainees in the delivery of psychological services to diverse under- and unserved populations. The Hume Center is a Community Mental Health Center that has clinics located in Concord, Pittsburg, Pleasanton, and Fremont, as well as satellite locations in Dublin, Hayward, and Livermore, California. Our mission is to provide culturally sensitive and comprehensive behavioral health services of the highest quality to under- and unserved populations. We believe in the principles of prevention, continuity of care, and collaboration with the people most involved in the lives of our clients.

Agency Mission

Our Philosophy The Hume Center’s guiding philosophy is that the key to helping others who are in psychological distress is to understand that the way they are seeing their circumstances give rise to the way that they are interacting with the world. Symptoms are coping strategies that make sense when they are seen from the perspective of the client. The fundamental belief that underlies our approach is that all people want to be effective and want to express what they see as the truth about their lives, so we approach our work with them with compassion, openness, and respect. Our approach to training at the Hume Center is based on the conviction that our trainees can best help others with compassion, openness, and respect when the Hume Center staff treats its trainees with those same attitudes. Our guiding philosophy is that trainees will do their best work and will learn best in an environment where relationships with supervisors, staff, and peers are valued and respected. Specifically, our approach to group supervision demonstrates our conviction that non-judgmental peer consultation greatly increases the value of the group experience for both presenters and participants. A Multi-Cultural Setting Hume Center trainees work in a multi-cultural setting and provide services to clients of many ethnicities, language preferences, ages, cultural and religious backgrounds, abilities or disabilities, and sexual orientations and gender identities. Trainees are expected to be sensitive to differences among clients in their backgrounds and sensitive to the way marginalized populations are affected by the dominant culture.

Population

We operate 5 clinics serving diverse populations ranging from our prevention programs to our Partial Hospitalization Program. We serve the chronic & severely mentally ill population, as well as a wide range of minority populations w/ multi-linguistic needs. In addition, our community based programs serve a multi-ethnic clientele with a commitment to under-served groups, including economically challenged, children, families, & developmentally delayed populations. We are a MULTI-SITE PROGRAM.

Staff (#, Degree, Prof. Lic.)

# of Psychologists: 11

# of Psychiatrists: 2

# of Licensed MFT: 1

Required days and times

Hume Center is no longer providing hybrid Doctoral Internships. All work must be completed in the clinic or community, and never from home or other remote settings. This is because we are a community mental health center and our services and clients require in person services. We do provide some telehealth services, but those are done from our clinics.

Training and Education Offered

We provide training across a broad spectrum of areas within the Profession Wide Competencies expected of a psychologist.

X-Cultural Training

Responsibilities

To provide clinical services to a diverse population of clients according to interns' interests and needs of the agency.

Application Procedures

Additional Comments

Hume Center follows APPIC Guidelines and does not participate in the CAPIC Match. Hume Center opens spots for the CAPIC Open Match that are unfilled by APPIC.