CARE Center

The CARE Center

The CARE Center (Counseling, Assessment, Research, and Education) is designed to meet the academic and mental health needs of underserved children and their families from our local community. The Center offers a full range of educational diagnostics, interventions, and mental health support services that address a diverse spectrum of individual needs, while promoting individual and family wellness from a holistic perspective.

Community Learning Partnership

Advancing Barry University's Mission

The CARE Center advances Barry University’s mission through:

  • Supporting the pursuit of knowledge and truth and the intellectual development of Adrian Dominican School of Education students by offering the enrichment of faculty-supervised clinical experiences and opportunities to work with underserved populations
  • An inclusive community of practitioners-in-training from the diverse areas of study in Adrian Dominican School of Education
  • Promoting social justice in meeting the academic and emotional needs of the underserved in our local community
  • Promoting collaborative service among faculty and students in the Adrian Dominican School of Education areas of study, as well as with local schools and community agencies

Giving to The Care Center

Barry University’s CARE Center needs your support of its mission. Your passion and support for knowledge and truth, inclusive community, social justice, and collaborative service opens a world of possibilities for our students and the communities we serve through the CARE Center.

By giving online, your contribution will make a huge impact for our community, as well as create opportunities and promote excellence within the CARE Center. Your giving will help fund:

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The Care Center is Proud Partners With:

    • Advocate2Create
    • Breakthrough Miami
    • BreakThrough Care and Resource Center
    • 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project
    • Family Resolutions, LLC
    • Nicklaus Children's Hospital (Miami)
    • Peter Pan Border Operation
    • SunServe
    • YES Institute
    • Little Havana Coalition
    • Miami Shores Coalition
    • Miami Coalition
    • City of Miami Beach Service Partnership
    • College Summit Inc.
    • Honey Shine Inc.
    • Pridelines
    • Doctor Charters School
    • Florida International University
    • Florida State University
    • Miami Country Day School
    • Miami Dade County Public Schools And District
    • Miami Edison Senior High School
    • Miami Jackson Senior High School
    • Nova Southeastern University
    • University Of Florida

Grant Funded Programs

Barry University recognizes that true change, growth, and leadership come when our internal resources are leveraged for maximum impact. As a result, the University pursues various funding opportunities from federal, state, local government, and private corporations and foundations. More specifically, the CARE Center seeks grants that support the University’s mission to serve under resourced and underrepresented populations.

The CARE Center currently offers the following grant funded programs:

  • Community of Healthy, Active, Motivated, Positive Students (C.H.A.M.P.S.) - The overall goal of the program is to equip youth with social, emotional and cognitive skills that promote personal and academic success so that they are can develop into C.H.A.M.P.S.. Barry University’s C.H.A.M.P.S. Program is funded by The Children’s Trust. The Children’s Trust is a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County.
  • College Reach-Out Program (C.R.O.P.) - provides academic and psychosocial supportive services to educationally and economically disadvantaged students in grades 6 through 12 that motivates and prepares them to attend college and complete their postsecondary education.
  • Barry

    More Info

    Silvia Reyes, Ph.D, LMHC, NCC, MFT Director- CARE Center Office: 305-899-4778 Fax: 305-899-4793 Email: spreyes@barry.edu

View the following grant funded programs

  • C.H.A.M.P.S

    Barry University’s Youth Development Program C.H.A.M.P.S. (Community of Healthy, Active, Motivated, Positive Students) serves a total of 80 participating students (grades 6-12) at David Lawrence Jr. K-8 Center, Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Senior High, North Miami Senior High School and the North Miami Police Athletic League (PAL).

  • C.R.O.P.

    Since 1999, Florida Department of Education has supported Barry University’s College Reach-Out Program (C.R.O.P.) through funded grant awards.

  • Former Grants

    The Counseling Department in Barry University’s Adrian Dominican School of Education was granted a total of $15,000 for 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 by Wells Fargo-Harry Kramer Memorial Fund to provide an Educational Enrichment Series for CROP students within 6-12th grade.

Workshops

The CARE Center has offered these workshops can customize a workshop for your organization or department on a variety of subjects. If you are interested, please reach out to Dr. Fay Roseman at froseman@barry.edu.
    • Cultural Competency
    • Multicultural Competency Training
    • Children, Disasters, Crisis, and Stress - From Trauma to Resilience
    • The Ties that Bind: Child Focus in Families
    • Basics of Play Therapy
    • Introduction to Play Therapy
    • A New Understanding of Traumatic Stress
    • Crisis Intervention
    • Case Conceptualization for Service Delivery
    • Assessment - What Brings You Here Today?
    • Treatment Planning - When Will We Know it's Time to Stop?
    • Documentation - How Do I Say That? 
    • Termination - How Do I Say Goodbye?
    • Boundary Setting - Preventing Burnout 
    • ABCs Of Sexology
    • Apply Bowen Theory to the Connecticut School Shooting
    • The Bowen Theory Concept of the Triangle
    • Bowen Theory's Unique View of Anxiety
    • Applying the Concept of Counterbalancing Life Forces to the Clinical Phenomena 
    • Brief Interventions for the Addiction Spectrum - Tips and Tools for Counselors
    • Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Depression using the Bright Program
    • DSM 5: Overview and Impact Exploration
    • Differentiation of Self
    • Thinking Systems For The Helping Professions: Implications for Clinical Practice and Education
    • Utilizing the Language of the Body to Move Client Into Eating Disorder Recovery

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