What Colleges Will Rehabilitation Services Administration Pay For

Rehabilitation Preparation Grants

Grants in 3 Specialties Offered for Primary'southward Students

The Counselor Education Program has been awarded three federal grants to aid Primary of Science students in the following academic concentrations:

1000.S. in Counseling with an accent in Psychiatric Rehabilitation, to serve individuals with psychiatric disabilities
M.S. in Counseling with an accent in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling, to serve individuals with a broad continuum of disabilities
M.Southward. in Counseling with an emphasis in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling, to serve transition-anile youth with disabilities

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Specialist Training Program

The Counselor Education Program is recruiting students who are interested in obtaining their main's degree in Counseling with an emphasis in Psychiatric Rehabilitation. We have been awarded a five-year training grant to ready twenty chief's level professionals. Funding from the federal grant will be used to comprehend tuition and fees for 48 form credit hours, stipends to assist with school expenses, and student travel to attend a statewide conference. In short, grant recipients would find essentially all expenses paid for.

With 21.three% of Arkansans having a mental illness and 6.nine% with a serious mental disease, it is imperative that we prepare professionals with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to provide quality rehabilitation services to individuals with psychiatric disabilities.

Students in the training program will take a unique curricular program of study with special emphasis on recovery- oriented evidence-based practices. Consistent with the mission of recovery-oriented psychiatric rehabilitation, this training program is based on the principle that people with psychiatric disabilities should take broad-based life options bachelor to them with opportunities for employment and independent living in keeping with their needs, preferences and rights.

If you are interested in obtaining more information about this programme, delight contact:

Kristin Higgins, Ph.D., LPC
479-790-9521
kkhiggi@uark.edu

General Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Training Program

The Counselor Education Program is recruiting students who are interested in obtaining their master'south in Counseling with an emphasis in Rehabilitation. The program has been awarded a 5-twelvemonth preparation grant from the federal Rehabilitation Services Administration to ready 7 master's level professionals a year for five years. Funding from the RSA grooming grant will be used to cover tuition and fees for 48 form credit hours, stipends to assist with schoolhouse expenses, and educatee travel to nourish a statewide conference. In brusque, grant recipients would find essentially all expenses paid for.

The Rehabilitation Education and Research Program set professionals with the cognition, attitudes and skills needed to provide quality rehabilitation services to individuals from across a broad continuum of disabilities. Rehabilitation counselors are the just professional counselors educated and trained at the graduate level specifically to serve individuals with disabilities.

Through a comprehensive and unique counseling process, rehabilitation counselors help individuals with disabilities set and attain their personal, career, and independent living goals. They are the span between the person and self -sufficiency, helping them to live on their own, which typically includes securing, or returning to, productive, meaningful piece of work.

If y'all are interested in obtaining more data about this program, please contact:

Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling

Illustration of U of A Teaming for Transition program We are thrilled to share that the University of Arkansas has been awarded a federal grant to provide support for 31 student scholars across three cohorts to complete their master'southward degrees in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling, Special Teaching or Social Work.

Nosotros hope to recruit student scholars interested in earning a principal's caste in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling, with a focus on serving transition-aged youth with disabilities.

Scholars volition have tuition paid, a book stipend and opportunities for travel. In short, grant recipients would observe essentially all expenses paid for. All scholars volition besides earn a Graduate Certificate in Transition Services.

The faculty joining together to create this Teaming for Transition: Preparing Youth for Customs and Work opportunity believe that preparing scholars in these fields to use evidence-based practices that predict positive post-school outcomes volition greatly impact the lives of youth and adults with disabilities. Scholars across the 3 disciplines volition larn collaboratively across 5 classes focused on transition-related content specific to each subject field.

Further information can be establish at "$1.1 Million Grant for Training Professionals to Aid Youth With Disabilities 'Transition' to Developed Lives." The Teaming for Transition page has details on the certification. For the Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling concentration, the deadline to use is Fri, April 8, 2022. The awarding is online.

If you have any questions about this opportunity, delight contact: