Massachusetts Teaching Veterans To Be Mental Health Workers

Circle Connections: New Products & Services Trey Tippens left active duty in 2006 for school. Now the 33-year-old Marlborough resident is a fourth-year doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and coordinator of a program aimed at encouraging more people like him – those who know the structure, culture, and potential consequences of military service from personal experience – to choose a mental health career. The Train Vets to Treat Vets program, funded over two years by the state with $250,000, pays Tippens and other Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology students with a military history to . . .