More about the TLCC
The Teaching, Learning, & Counseling Consortium is an instructional training and clinical service site designed to provide a collaborative approach to preparing professionals who will work with children. The TLC provides services from the Mitchell Family Counseling Clinic, the Los Angeles times Literacy Center, the Special Education Literacy Laboratory, the Family Focus Enrichment and Empowerment Center and the Berke Assessment Library, all working in partnership.
Our philosophy is based on our understanding of the ways in which children learn best. The partnership of our programs is designed to support the needs, interests, and development of thriving learners. We strive to develop a transdisciplinary team approach where a team of parents, teachers, therapists, faculty and staff work to engage the whole child.
The TLC provides a working demonstration model of transdisciplinary services and inter-professional preparation for educators, counselors, and clinicians by providing a laboratory that demonstrates how to assess, diagnose, prescribe interventions, implement support for learning needs, and evaluate the effectiveness of those interventions. The goal is to help all professionals who work with children and families – teachers, school leaders, school psychologists, school counselors, and family therapists – to become effective clinicians who work knowledgeably and collaboratively to support the success of individual children and their families.
The TLC provides a site that allows us to demonstrate new and innovative concepts of how professionals work together to address the whole student – educationally, emotionally, socially, and physically. The TLC will influence our pre-professionals’ framework of beliefs and dispositions, their knowledge base, and their set of practices and skills by providing a demonstration site where, much like a “teaching Hospital,” pre-professionals learn by observing research-based, effective practices in action, and by actively participating in supervised clinical practice.
As a community service clinic, the TLC provides high quality, affordable services for children with learning differences; for children with literacy challenges; for children, adults, couples and families in need of counseling; and for infants, children, and adults with disabilities and their parents. Many students need services in more than one area; traditionally support services are provided independently of each other in various locations without coordination or collaboration among professionals. In contrast, the TLC brings our resources together with relevant professional resources from the community to wholly and collaboratively support the needs of children and families.
The opportunity to learn at the TLC about multiple perspectives across disciplines regarding preparation, assessment, and service delivery will lead to a broader and more accurate understanding of obstacles and challenges in context; will provide a foundation for the creation of common objectives among diverse professionals; and will lead to a more comprehensive range of solutions to be offered in a coordinated and integrated manner to families.
