El Paso Psychology Internship Consortium Diversity and Non-Discrimination Policy 

The El Paso Psychology Internship Consortium strongly values diversity and believes in creating an equitable, hospitable, appreciative, safe, and inclusive learning environment for its interns. Diversity among interns and supervisors enriches the educational experience, promotes personal growth, and strengthens communities and the workplace. Every effort is made by EPPIC to create a climate in which all staff and interns feel respected, comfortable, and in which success is possible and obtainable. EPPIC strives to make every effort to dispel ignorance or anxiety associated with multicultural experiences.

EPPIC welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds. The Consortium believes that a diverse training environment contributes to the overall quality of the program. EPPIC provides equal opportunity to all prospective interns and does not discriminate because of a person's race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or any other factor that is irrelevant to success as a psychology intern. Applicants are individually evaluated in terms of quality of previous training, practicum experiences, and fit with the internship.

The EPPIC’s goal in diversity training is to ensure that interns develop the knowledge, skills and awareness necessary to provide competent psychological services to all members of the public.  To this end, the EPPIC's training program requires an expected competency in diversity training.  These competencies were developed to comply with the APA’s Preparing Professional Psychologists to Serve a Diverse Public statement “. . . professional psychology training programs strive to ensure that psychology trainees demonstrate acceptable levels of knowledge, skills, and awareness to work effectively with diverse individuals.”  Diversity experiences and training are interwoven throughout the training program to ensure that interns are both personally supported and well trained in this area.