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Master of Science in Counseling Student Selected as Maguire Internship Recipient
Lindsay Wilson, a
student in the School's M.S. in Counseling program, was recently selected as one
of eight recipients of a Maguire
Center for Ethics and
Public Responsibility public service internship. Lindsay
will perform her internship at Our Friends' Place, serving on the
treatment team that works with girls and young women who have been neglected,
abandoned, or otherwise abused in their lives. Lindsay sees this as a way to
become involved with others while continuing to pursue a Master's degree in counseling
through SMU's Plano campus. Lindsey's service at Our Friends Place will also give her
valuable experience in the field prior to beginning her practicum and internship
in the counseling program.
Our Friends' Place
provides an important and unique service in Dallas County for one of the most
needy and troubled client populations -- girls and young women. Through
therapeutic residential care and teaching independent living skills, girls with
histories of abuse, neglect, abandonment, and behavioral problems are able to
experience a safe and stable homelike environment. By providing this important
community service, Our Friends' Place helps girls with serious problems get the
care they need. This care, which they might not otherwise receive, teaches them
how to rebuild their lives.
Over the past twelve years, SMU's Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public
Responsibility has awarded summer intern stipends to over 90 SMU students for
public service and research in ethics. The Center has served over eighty
agencies in twelve Texas cities, twelve states, and nine countries outside the
USA. Through such opportunities, students see the face of suffering and gain
concrete information about others' needs, as well as differing perspectives on
how to resolve them. In the process, they draw on their university education
and personal talent, honing skills as leaders and gaining both humility and
self-confidence. They also gain experience, which illuminates concepts taught
in the classroom and enables them to engage in public service where
financial circumstances might not otherwise allow.