The mission of the California Psychology Internship Council is to promote excellence in professional psychology training and mental health services.

• Working collaboratively with all the stakeholders and professional psychology organizations in furthering the quality of professional psychology training.

• Serving as a leader in centralizing predoctoral internship training.

• Promoting standards and innovation in professional psychology training to provide clinical services to the state's diverse communities.

• Collaborating and advocating for access to training stipends for psychology interns and training resources for agencies.

• Developing ethical internship training environments that are sensitive to issues of diversity and culture.

The California Psychology Internship Council (CAPIC) is an association of clinical psychology doctoral programs and internship training sites throughout the state of California. Among its many functions, CAPIC:

• helps facilitate internship quality assurance

• provides standardized application, evaluation, and contract forms used by internship programs

• implements policies, procedures, and timetables that improve the application / selection process for students, internship programs, and member schools

• promotes culturally relevant training

• advocates for increased public awareness of the benefits of student services in the field of mental health