TROY — A grant from the U.S. Department of Education will help Troy University’s Department of Counseling, Rehabilitation, and Interpreter Training address the critical shortage of mental health counseling services
The five-year, $1.132 million grant, awarded from by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Supportive Schools, will provide scholarship funds for graduate students within five partner local education agencies interested in pursuing careers in school counseling. Those partners include school systems in Coffee, Geneva, Crenshaw, Montgomery, and Macon counties.
“The Troy University Counseling Department is committed to expanding access to professional degrees in the increasingly important field of mental health counseling,” he said. “This country is experiencing an unprecedented mental health crisis, and Alabama is, by no means, immune to this. School systems in rural Alabama find it especially difficult to staff their schools with the mental health professionals needed to meet the current situation.
Dr. Samantha Booker, Assistant Chair of the Counseling and coordinator for both the School Counseling and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Certificate programs at Troy, said that the partner agencies were selected based on various demographic thresholds, as well as the systems’ current counselor-to-student ratios.
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