I am excited to announce that we are working on revising our curriculum just a little bit to include the Career Development Facilitator (CDF) training as part of our curriculum!  What this means is that successfully completing our school counseling program can lead to both licensure in Massachusetts (if your internship is completed in MA) and the CDF certificate, and provides tangible recognition of the career development related skills acquired as part of our graduate training program.  With the CDF training complete, you can apply for the GCDF credential once you have acquired 1400 hours of post-Masters experience in career development related work (which, of course, includes being a school counselor).

To make this happen, we will replace our current career development course (COUNSL 613, Vocational Development and Career Information) with a new course titled ‘Career Development Facilitator Training.’  The course has been developed and is currently under review here at UMass Boston, and (assuming all goes well with the review) should be up and running by the Spring of 2017, which is when most of our on-campus students starting in 2016 take the career course.   Since the CDF training requires a face-to-face component, we are currently hashing out how we might offer this to our online students as well.

If you have any questions or comments about this, please feel free to let me know!