What is the Lupine Wellness Center's Mission Statement?

Arkansas State University aims to educate leaders, enhance intellectual growth, and enrich lives. Congruent with this global goal, the mission of the Lupine Wellness Center is to prepare students to become culturally competent clinicians with a strong professional identity who lead through empirically validated service and advocacy and can effectively work with diverse populations in various settings.

The Lupine Wellness Center embraces the diversity embodied within individual and group differences. We offer culturally competent and empirically supported services in a safe and affirming space. Our therapeutic, assessment, outreach, and educational programs are delivered in a caring and compassionate manner that recognizes the unique characteristics and experiences of the individual.

Our faculty and student clinicians are committed to the promotion and affirmation of diversity in its broadest sense. We recognize that prejudice and discrimination based on sex, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, race, sexual/affectional orientation, age, physical and mental abilities, size, religious beliefs, and socioeconomic class, have historically impacted mental health practices, both in terms of defining mental health issues as well as in the provision of care that is informed by cultural awareness and identity-affirmation. Prejudice and discrimination run counter to our professional ethics as a clinic, and are viewed as detrimental to the practice of psychotherapy, assessment, outreach, and educational programs.