• Internships
  for Counselors
  
  -- Parents Helping Parents (Project YEA!)
  
  --Advent Group Ministries
  
  --Gearup
  
  
• Writing Resume
  
  
• Seeking jobs
  
  
• Preparing for job interviews
  
  
• Salary for Counselors
  
  
  
  
  

Internships for Counselors

Welcome to the world of Internships for future counselors! Making the decision to gain experience in the field of your choice will give you the opportunity to learn and decide whether the career path you have chosen is right for you. Not only will an internship provide invaluable experience, but it will open the door to other opportunities as well. Hopefully, your internship will be the beginning of a successful and lengthy career. Good Luck!

Requirements for M.A and PPS Credential in Counselor Education:

To obtain the PPS Credential in Counselor Education, you are required to complete 12 units of internship at two school levels totaling 600 hours through EdCo 292 (http://sweeneyhall.sjsu.edu/eld/coed/292home.html).
EdCo 292 is not required for M.A candidates, but highly recommended.

Resources:

Helpful Resources for Your Internship Search -- Bay Area Faculty Diversity Internship Project
http://www.westvalley.edu/wvmccd/bafdip/home.html

The Bay Area Faculty Diversity Internship Project is designed to help graduate students who have completed 50% of their master's degrees teach their own class, team teach or observe. The internship also provides workshops to increase professional development.

The Internship Project Includes:

Chabot College, Hayward

Evergreen Valley College, San Jose

Gavilan College, Gilroy

Las Positas College, Livermore

Mission College, Santa Clara

Ohlone College, Fremont

West Valley College, Saratoga

City College of San Francisco, San Francisco

College of San Mateo, San Mateo

| Top of the Page |

College Information

As well as an internship project, each of the colleges listed (as well as many other colleges) display employment opportunities and student services on their websites. It is a good idea for a job seeker to become familiar with the different services offered by the college, as well as obtaining the contact information of the counseling and student services department. As an internship seeker, email, call, or visit the departments you are interested in-Send in your resume!

Chabot College: http://www.Chabotweb.clpccd.cc.ca.us/

Evergreen Valley College: http://www.evc.edu

Gavilan College: http://www.gavilan.cc.ca.us

Las Positas College: http://www.clpccd.com

Mission College: http://www.wvmccd.cc.ca.us/mc

Ohlone College: http://www.ohlone.cc.ca.us

West Valley College: http://www.wvmccd.cc.ca.us/wvc/wvchome.html

City College of San Francisco: http://www.ccsf.cc.ca.us/

College of San Mateo: http://www.gocsm.net/


Online Internship Resources

www.getthatgig.com: Contains listings of Educational/Teaching and Counseling Internships.

www.wetfeet.com: Numerous Internship Listings.

www.internship.com: Contains numerous links to other internship sites.

www.jobweb.com: The site has an online career/internship fair and large employment database.

www.rsinternships.com: Contains many international internships.

www.review.com/career/internships.cfm: The site has internship advice, featured internships, and intern stories.

www.idealist.com: Contains jobs, internships and volunteer opportunities in 153 countries.

One More Great Resource

The Chronicle of Higher education http://chronicle.com/:
The #1 news and job information source for college faculty and students. The Career Network contains jobs such as student affairs, grants admission, registrars office, woman's affairs, career services, and counseling and minority/multicultural affairs

| Top of the Page |

Featured Internships

• Parents Helping Parents (Project YEA!)
  
• Advent Group Ministries
  
• Gear UP

Parents Helping Parents (Project YEA!)

Project YEA is looking for advocates to help promote the educational right of youth.

What is a YEA?
It is for individual and dependents of the Court, the YEA volunteer acts in partnership with the parent or guardian to seek and monitor free appropriate public education. The YEA volunteer is assigned by the YEA! Project staff to participate in the IEP process.

Roles of the YEA Volunteer:

• Gathers and reviews information on eligibility and assessments.
  
• Participates in planning meetings w/the parent, probation officer, or social worker
  
• May meet with teacher to observe students behavior or learning environment
  
• Participates as an active member of the youths educational planning team
  
• Supports parent/youth in conflict resolution efforts to educational services
  
• Monitors timely implementation of educational plan and ongoing compliance
  
• Communicates compliance concerns to the Project YEA! Staff to determine next steps
  
• Provides periodic updates to Project YEA! Staff regarding case progress on behalf of the student.
  

For more information on how you can become a Project YEA! Advocate look us up on the following website. www.php.com or www.info@php.com

| Top of the Page |

Advent Group Ministries

Advent Group Ministries is a team of Christians with a mission of bringing hope, healing and Christ's love to hurting children and their families. We provide personal care through a professional staff of counselors and social worker and a network of well trained volunteers. This program provides help with transition into foster care programs, were we provide a full spectrum of training, counseling, and financial assistance to our foster parents. We also provide an innovative live-in-treatment program for chemically dependent teenagers, and provide help for accompanying emotional disturbed clients due to physical or sexual abuse. There is also a counseling program that is staffed by licensed and trained professionals with focus on unifying and strengthening troubled families.

What can you do?
People like you make a difference between providing minimal treatment or offering the kind of intensive one-on-one help these at-risk kids and families help.
To many of our children are living a nightmare. We need your help to give them back their dreams.
For more information on how you can:

• Come work with us
  
• Become a resident Counselor, Social Worker, etc.
  
• Volunteer your time
• Become a Foster Parent
  
• Receive low cost counseling
  
• Donate items or money for our recovery group homes
  

Call us or visit our website: 1-800-982-3836 www.adventgm.com or www.joinadvent.com

| Top of the Page |

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:

The mission of The East Side GEAR UP Community Achievement Project is to
Substantially increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and enroll in College. San Jose State University is the Fiscal Agent for the Partnership Grant, which includes East Side Union High School District, Alum Rock Elementary School District, and Franklin McKinley School District. The program focuses on Counseling and Academics for students, College Awareness and Workplace Skills for Parents and Professional Development for Teachers.

We Started in January 2000 with the 7th grade cohort of students from Fischer, JW Fair, Lee Mathson, and Sylvandale Middle Schools. This year the students are enrolling in our four High Schools: Andrew Hill, Independence, Overfelt, and Yerba Buena as 9th graders. We will continue to provide them with academic and counseling services through their 11th grade year of High School.

COMMUNITY ACADEMY:

Our Saturday Academy will be broken into four 6-week sessions throughout the year. Our bell schedule will consist of four 65-minute class periods with a 30-minute Lunch Break. We will start around 8:00 am and end around 1:40pm.

PURPOSE:

Currently we are in search of EDCO 292 Student Interns who would not only like to assist us in achieving our goals with our students, but who are also interested in Counseling in public school settings.

We strongly urge you to consider this unique opportunity to teach and share your passion with students.
| Top of the Page |

Program Objective1 & Components:

| Top of the Page |

Program Objective 3.1 - 3.2 & Components:

Number of Internships Available:
Eight

Number of Supervisors:
Two

Stipend:
Yes

Housing & Meals:
Not Included

Start Date:
Fall 2002

| Top of the Page |

How to Apply
Download the EDCO 292 - Supervised Experience in Counseling Handbook from the link below.
http://sweeneyhall.sjsu.edu/eld/coed/292home.html

Orientation:
Please contact EDCO Supervisors for orientation dates and times.

Note:
Send a Letter of Interest and Resume to the Internship Program Coordinator.