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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A marque caller programme done Fresno Pacific University is preparing students to go schoolhouse counselors.
Similar to a teaching residency, assemblage students are paired with schools successful Tulare and Kings County to get hands-on acquisition earlier landing their archetypal job.
Roman Romero helps students with social-emotional wellbeing astatine Hanford West High School successful radical settings.
He besides works one-on-one with students to hole them for college.
As an aspiring schoolhouse counselor, he's learning what goes into the occupation done Fresno Pacific University's brand-new School Counselor Residency program.
"So pupil social-emotional needs, pupil intelligence wellness needs, academics, their idiosyncratic needs, each the logistical and clerical things down the scenes that schoolhouse counselors bash present astatine Hanford West, I've been fixed the accidental to bash each of it," Romero said.
After being successful the works for much than 5 years, the concern betwixt FPU, Tulare County and Kings County Offices of Education yet came to beingness successful the fall.
Romero and 11 different students were placed astatine country schools to implicit their 800 required hours of objective enactment oregon on-the-job training.
Dr. Dena Fiori is the Program Director. She says each pupil has a tract supervisor who acts arsenic a mentor.
Residents enactment 8 hours a day, Tuesday done Friday.
They besides person regular nonrecreational development.
Marvin Lopez, the enforcement manager of the program, says done national and authorities grants, each nonmigratory receives a $45,000 stipend and each tract mentor receives a $4,000 stipend.
"We figured the $45,000 surviving stipend for our residents was a bully magnitude to let them to spell done the programme successful 1 twelvemonth and beryllium capable to prolong themselves portion they were getting the objective experience, hands-on signifier and mentorship done this program," Lopez said.
That wealth was a deciding origin for Romero, who was already moving successful higher acquisition and would've apt had to implicit his objective hours unpaid.
"I was making bully income, truthful wanting to prosecute schoolhouse counseling was a small scary, fixed that I was told I would person to fundamentally enactment for escaped for 800 hours," Romero said.
Once students similar Romero postgraduate from FPU and implicit their residency, they'll beryllium acceptable to prosecute with acquisition nether their belt.
Fiori hopes galore of the residents yet determine to put backmost successful the Central Valley.
"A batch of my students spell and bash their internships, and past they determination distant and I'm hoping that their residency truly gets -- it grows roots for these residents that they privation to enactment here. They privation to service our truly unsocial population." Fiori said.
FPU has plans to summation the fig of residents and schoolhouse locations adjacent year.
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