Mission and Objectives
Developing competent, fully functioning clinical mental health, school, and rehabilitation counselors and psychometric professionals for urban and rural communities.
Our mission
The Mission of the Department of Counseling, Rehabilitation and Psychometric Services is to develop competent, and fully functioning clinical mental health, school, rehabilitation counselors, and psychometric professionals. The Department continually challenges itself to meet the lifelong educational needs of its students, as well as the ever-changing needs of the urban and rural communities, agencies, organizations, associations, and clientele in which it serves.
The mission also promotes the concept of the quality service delivery and the provision of clinical, school, rehabilitation, and psychometric services to a diverse and multiculturally faceted clientele and population.
Read the full mission and objectives statement (Word document, revised 2023)
- Department
- Counseling, Rehabilitation and Psychometric Services
- College
- Education and Human Development
- Level
- Graduate training
- Accreditation
- CACREP — Clinical Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling
- Accredited Through
- Renewal cycle of October 2031
- Chair
- Dion F. Porter, Ph.D., CRC
- Phone
- 601-979-3364
What the department sets out to do
- To develop competent, fully functioning professional clinical mental health, school, rehabilitation counselors and psychometric professionals who are credentialed in their areas of expertise.
- To meet the lifelong educational needs of a diverse, technologically savvy, and multicultural student body, within both an urban and rural community setting.
- To prepare program students to meet the quality counseling service delivery needs of our community partners, consumers, and clientele in a multicultural environment.
- To continually maintain effective collaborations and partnerships with community agencies and organizations, clinical field experience sites and institutions of higher learning.
Nationally accredited by CACREP
The Department of Counseling, Rehabilitation and Psychometric Services, which offers graduate level training for aspiring counselors and psychometrists, received national accreditation for its Clinical Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling programs from the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP).
This prestigious national accreditation status is valid through the next renewal cycle of October 2031. Learn more about our accreditation.
- Accrediting Body
- Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP)
- Accredited Programs
- Clinical Mental Health Counseling · School Counseling
- Next Renewal Cycle
- October 2031
- CACREP Data
- Program outcome data
- Honor Society
- Chi Sigma Iota
Programs and program information
Train as a counselor at Jackson State
CACREP-accredited graduate programs in clinical mental health and school counseling.
Contact the Department
Department Chair and Associate Professor
Jackson State University
1400 John R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS 39217