About The UCCS Aging Center

The mission of the UCCS Aging Center is to enhance the quality of life for older adults and their families through excellence in psychological training, services, research, and integrated care partnerships.
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Aging Center History

Aging Center on Hancock

In January 1999, the UCCS Aging Center (then called the CU Aging Center) opened its doors in the Golf Acres Shopping Center on North Hancock Avenue in Colorado Springs. Its purpose was to serve as a training clinic for the still-developing UCCS doctoral program in clinical geropsychology as well as a community mental health clinic for underserved older adults.

In 1999, four part-time faculty and staff and three master's students provide 460 hours of services to 70 clients in the first year.

Three second-year Ph.D. students begin training in 2005. The UCCS Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program with an emphasis in Geropsychology is one of four in the country and first in Rocky Mountain region.

In 2012, Aging Center receives the Joe Henjum Senior Accolades Award for Integrated Caregiver Services, following the previous year's honor from the El Pomar Foundation Awards of Excellence as a finalist in the health care category. The UCCS Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program also is selected by the Council of Professional Geropsychology Training Programs for the 2012 Innovative Training Award.

The Aging Center moved to Lane Center for Academic Health Sciences on UCCS campus in 2014. 

Academic Focus

student trainee with client

The Aging Center is a university affiliated nonprofit mental health services facility administered by the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). It is currently one of the few psychology training clinics that addresses practicum and predoctoral internship training requirements in geropsychology. Clinical training is intensive and comprehensive, and experience is gained in all core service centers and in community integrated care settings. Advanced proficiency is achieved in integrated health care services, neuropsychological assessment, and psychotherapy skills.

Training Opportunities