University of Scranton/Universidad Iberoamericana
Country:
Mexico
Award Date:
2002
Award Amount:
$299,067.00
Cost Share:
$388,324.00
Other Partners:
Advocacy Alliance; Allied Services; Behavioral Health Research Institute; Center for Independent Living; Desarrollo de la Comunidad, A.C.; Hospital de Perinatología; Fundación Pro Niños de la Calle; Hospital Velez; Hospital de Tacubaya; Leahy Community Health Center; Nativity of our Lord Parish–Hispanic Ministry Program; Pina Palmera; Scranton Counseling Center; St. Joseph’s Center; Tri-County Health and Human Services; Valley Youth House; Women’s Resource Center
This TIES partnership designed a collaborative graduate curriculum in Community Counseling, which prepares bilingual, culturally sensitive counselors to work with Spanish-speaking individuals, families, and communities. Three Mexican students earned graduate degrees from the program. The partners constructed a state-of-the-art counselor training center with a faculty/student computer lab equipped with distance learning software and counseling materials. Eight administrators, 65 faculty members, seven students, and five social service providers (38 from Mexico) participated in exchanges during the project. The partnership also provided two six-week counseling intervention programs in Mexico and the U.S., held two hemispheric counseling congresses, and published two issues of Selected Themes in Counseling (in Spanish).