School Counseling Grant

• Expand the New Hampshire behavioral health workforce by supporting Master’s-level internships in counseling.
  • These 600-hour internships targeted children, adolescents, and transitional-age persons who have, or at at-risk for, developing behavioral health disorders.
  • 74 Master’s-level counseling interns were supported by the award over three years.
  • 78 students and 9 faculty attended local conferences with grant support; 31 students and 7 faculty attended national conferences with grant support.
• Implement a violence prevention program at internship sites.
  • The PREPaRE School Crisis Prevention and Intervention Training Curriculum was offered in March 2015, October/November 2015, and October 2016. Each session included two workshops discussing comprehensive school safety planning and elaborating the roles of school-based mental health professionals. These workshops served 83 Master’s-level School Counseling and School Psychology students.

• Explore schools’ readiness to implement Universal Screening to assess social-emotional competence at all internship sites.
  • The DESSA Comprehensive Social-Emotional Learning Assessment and Intervention System was implemented in five internship sites, which served a total of 1,438 public school students grades K-8.
  • A presentation was given by the Grant Team to 125 school superintendents and administrators in New Hampshire regarding the DESSA system.
  • Two workshops with national experts on the topic of social-emotional competence were supported by the award (100 attendees, including school counseling interns and students, school professionals, and school administrators.
• Provide inter-professional training and integration of care.
  • The Grant Team collaborated with an area pediatric medical facility to identify training needs and developed a training plan for medical professionals to address behavioral health disorders.
• Increase supervisory workforce.
  • Three annual Supervision Institutes for clinical mental health, school counseling, and school psychology internship supervisors were held (85 site supervisors attended).

• 

• 

• 

• Support the CESP Department in establishing the Department Training Clinic used to train counseling students in working with clients.
• Continue to support program, departmental, and institutional strengths.
  • The faculty presented information about the Master’s-level counseling programs to undergraduate psychology students.
  • Current curricula for the counseling programs engaged students in experiential learning experiences beginning in foundational courses that exposed students to working in the field early in their training.
  • Program faculty facilitated an annual Advisory Council consisting of counseling professionals acting as internship student supervisors to help students better understand the needs of a diverse clientele.
  • Hosted three annual, student-led Diversity Institutes to address societal issues related to behavioral health. Attendance for all three years was approximately 600 participants. Topics presented included:
    • The Oppression of Underrepresented Populations by White Privilege
    • Sex Trafficking of Vulnerable Populations
    • Deconstructing the Gender Binary: Working with Transgender Individuals

School Psychology Grant

• Expand the New Hampshire behavioral health care workforce by supporting Master’s-level internships in School Psychology.
  • These 1,200-hour internships targeted children, adolescents, and transitional-age persons who have, or are at-risk for, developing behavioral health disorders.
  • 60 Master’s-level School Psychology interns were supported by the award over three years.
  • 112 students and 20 faculty attended local conferences with grant support; 24 students and 8 faculty attended national conferences with grant support.
• Implement a violence prevention program at internship sites.
  • The PREPaRE School Crisis Prevention and Intervention Training Curriculum was offered in March 2015, October/November 2015, and October 2016. Each session included two workshops discussing comprehensive school safety planning and elaborating the roles of school-based mental health professionals. These workshops served 83 Master’s-level School Counseling and School Psychology students.
• Explore schools’ readiness to implement Universal Screening to assess social-emotional competence at all internship sites.
  • The DESSA Comprehensive Social-Emotional Learning Assessment and Intervention System was implemented in five internship sites, which served a total of 1,438 public school students grades K-8.
  • A presentation was given by the Grant Team to 125 school superintendents and administrators in New Hampshire regarding the DESSA system.
  • Two workshops with national experts on the topic of social-emotional competence were supported by the grant (100 attendees, including school counseling interns and students, school professionals, and school administrators.
• Increase supervisory workforce.
  • Three annual Supervision Institutes for clinical mental health, school counseling, and school psychology internship supervisors were held (85 site supervisors attended).
• Support the CESP Department in establishing the Department Training Clinic used to train counseling students in working with clients.
  • The award supported the training clinic with assessment materials and noise machines.
  • A referral process was developed in collaboration with the University Disability Resource Office to provide updated psychological evaluations for use with transitional-age college youth in order to help ensure their academic success.
  • 10 School Psychology practicum and internship students conducted psycho-educational evaluations for 21 college students previously identified as having disabilities and requiring accommodations to succeed at the college level.
• Support program, departmental, and institutional strengths.
  • The Grant Team presented to undergraduate psychology and education classes, wrote articles for the NH state school psychology newsletter, and presented information on grant writing and effective implementation to the School Psychology Trainers Association National Conference.
• Support the department in its emphasis on the need to understand, respect, and learn from the culturally diverse populations with whom students work.
  • A course in Multicultural Parenting was offered to graduate counseling students.
  • Hosted three annual, student-led Diversity Institutes to address societal issues related to behavioral health. Attendance for all three years was approximately 600 participants. Topics presented included:
    • Spirituality in Counseling
    • Addressing Sexual Violence and Vulnerability Among Diverse Populations
    • Deconstructing the Gender Binary: Working with Transgender Individuals
• Provide inter-professional training and integration of care.
  • A committee was established to identify area agencies (such as religious organizations, recreation programs, law enforcement, and primary care providers) to collaborate with on this initiative.