Los Angeles Community Services & Placements

Because Alliant focuses on professions devoted to human problem solving, community service provides an important component of every graduate student's experience at Alliant. Each year, our students provide thousands of hours of behavioral-health, educational, and other services to the surrounding community, especially to underserved populations. Often, research on various social and behavioral issues is conducted in conjunction with these services.

Here in Los Angeles, organizations managed by faculty provide business and other consulting services to clients within the community while also allowing students to develop hands-on professional skills and to develop professional contacts that will help them after graduation.

The Psychological Services Center

The PSC is the administrative umbrella for the community-based program: the Children, Youth, and Family Services Consortium. This program enables participating faculty, staff, students, alumni, and external consultant associates to provide services that few other institutions can offer. Students and postdoctoral fellows in the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) also receive unique training and supervision that prepare them for critically needed roles as community and organizational psychologists, advocates, and leaders.

The PSC is charged with developing professional training, research, and consultation opportunities for Alliant faculty and students, while providing services to a variety of public/private agencies. It is committed to developing effective and innovative service strategies and resources that address the needs of a wide range of clients – with a particular focus on ethnically diverse, underserved populations.

Center for Innovation and Change (CIC)

The Center for Innovation and Change (CIC) provides low-cost or no-cost consulting by students of the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management (MGSM) at the Los Angeles campus. The CIC is committed to providing graduate students with hands-on research and consultation experience early in their graduate studies, so they can start out with a basic understanding of how the theory and concepts underlying organizational psychology translate into practical applications in the workplace.

CIC clients can receive a broad range of organizational development services. CIC consulting engagements have provided clients with employee survey design and analysis, support for post-survey action planning, diversity analysis, support for cross-organizational teams, task force facilitation, training design and evaluation, large-scale change management, design of off-site retreat meetings for boards of directors and executive teams, and executive coaching. CIC clients are well-respected, not-for-profit organizations in health-care, retail, social services, and government.

Students can begin working on CIC projects after they complete their first semester. Although they do not receive academic credit for these projects, students with CIC experience often capture coveted jobs and internships over students from other schools that don't provide such opportunities. Their consulting experiences also help them build skills for success in class assignments and dissertation research.

Other Community Service Programs
Alhambra Unified School District
Children, Youth, & Family Services Consortium
Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) Counseling Program and Leadership Training
Primary Intervention Program
Ramona Healthy Start Family Center
Violence Prevention Program