Abigail Stratton (middle) and Cassie Harper (right), along with another OHIO counseling student Savannah Harvey, attended the All Ohio Counselors Conference in Columbus this past October.
When graduate student Katie Troha received her diploma this December, she was already celebrating her new fulltime job offer. Troha had accepted a position as a professional counselor at The Village Network in Tuscarawas, OH, where she had recently completed her 600-hour internship in clinical mental health counseling.
Troha is one of three students who were accepted into the first cohort of The Patton College of Education’s Counselor Education program as part of a $2 million grant awarded to the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) by the U.S. Department of Education. The goal of this School-Based Mental Health Services grant is to increase the number of qualified mental health service providers offering school-based services to students with demonstrated need. Through this grant, students may be awarded a paid internship of $10,000 to train as school counselors to work in seven Appalachian Ohio counties: Belmont, Guernsey, Harrison, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, and Tuscarawas. Troha specialized in both school counseling and clinical mental health counseling during her master’s program.
“In my placements, I learned a lot about the day-to-day specifics of working as a school counselor and as a mental health counselor and about the importance of working together with other professionals,”...
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