Our university-run clinics and centers provide you with real-world experience in your discipline, while also helping to fill service needs in Chester and beyond.
Whether you're pursuing a degree in education, health services, business, or another field, you will have the type of experiences that will mirror the professional field you're about to enter.
Through these community outreach programs, you will also hone your leadership skills, grow your professional network, and broaden your worldview.
Each clinic and center is located on campus or nearby, and offers free or reduced-cost services. The clinics and centers often work in concert to serve needs, and may refer clients to each other or collaborate on care. And we continually seek new ways to strengthen partnerships with the local community.
Clinics & Centers
The Biofeedback Clinic & Certification Center provides psychophysiological interventions for such stress-related problems as anxiety, teeth grinding, insomnia, headaches, and test anxiety.
The Chester Community Clinic provides compassionate and cost-effective physical and occupational therapy services to uninsured and underinsured community members, while also providing invaluable clinical experience to our future healthcare professionals.
The Widener Child Development Center offers unique preschool, transitional kindergarten, and kindergarten programs, and serves as a learning laboratory for our education and social work students.
The Child Therapy Clinic is a community-based training clinic that specializes in the treatment of mental health in children and adolescents, specializing in the implementation of evidence-based services to underserved populations.
Organization Development Services is an on-campus organizational consulting unit that provides leadership development and training programs to university departments, staff, and the surrounding communities.
The Science Teaching Center provides outreach programs for public and private schools in the Delaware Valley. Its mission is to improve science education and help others understand the world.
Social Work Counseling Services seeks to improve the quality of life of residents of Chester and the surrounding area by providing counseling services responsive to the needs of the community.
A new partnership with TELUS Health offers students a comprehensive wellness app for mental health support and resources, emphasizing accessibility and convenience.
The new Anna Mosco and Marietta Borinski ’80 Simulation Laboratory boasts simulated and virtual reality technology enabling Widener nursing students to excel in clinical practice.
