PEMIC strongly values diversity in all our working and teaching areas. We apply diversity on matters of, but not limited to, gender, age socioeconomic status, physical and mental disability, employment status, race, nationality, sexual orientation, skin color, and religion. This goes hand in hand with our mission of helping our clients function effectively in the community. Our commitment reflects the ever growing importance of diversity when it comes to psychology. For a support service that is efficient in delivering awareness, skill development and knowledge, we have references, coursework, and applications that ensure that existing experience and knowledge is used to serve each and every child irrespective of who they are. Special care is taken when coming up with the skills needed to deal with children from a linguistic minority background. The effort applied in this sector will ensure every child gets equal treatment and service regardless of their background.
Our program goes beyond the normal set parameters by adapting to the context and environment in which our expertise is needed. We acknowledge that it is necessary to develop continuously our curriculum based on ethnographic data and to process information based on the context of culture, location, and traditions. Urie Bronfenbrenner (1977) described how different layers of ecological systems affected children in a variety of ways.
Of course, it is important to empower the children so that they may have equal opportunities in the world. PEMIC ensures that our clients are helped to overcome the mental barriers to their success by giving them vital life-skills to propel them to achieve greater things.
The spirit of community psychology suggests that a program should marshal the communities’ participation as an agent to reinforce the supportive and natural adaptive development capacity of a community. Our program carefully analyzes the structure and processes of a community and identifies ways in which it can effectively intervene.
Works Cited
Bronfenbrenner, Urie, and Bert Kruger Smith. A Conversation with Urie Bronfenbrenner, to Nuture Children: From the Human Condition. Austin: Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, the U of Texas at Austin, 1977. Print.
