General Information:

  • Email: SchoolCounselorResGrants@ctc.ca.gov 
  • The California state budget signed by the Governor in July 2022 includes a total of $184 million over the next five years to augment the Teacher Residency Grant Program to support teacher and school counselor residency programs. This funding is available for competitive grants to support a collaborative partnership between an eligible Local Education Agency (LEA) or a consortium of LEAs partnering with a Commission-approved professional preparation offering preparation in school counseling by a regionally accredited institution of higher education (IHE) to create school counselor residency programs. The funding may be used to establish new school counselor residency programs that support local efforts to recruit, develop support systems for, provide outreach and communication strategies to, and retain a diverse school counseling workforce that reflects a local educational agency community’s diversity.

School Counselor Residency Capacity Grant Program:

    School Counselor Residency Implementation Grant Program

    Commission Agenda Items

    Update to the Residency Grant Programs 

    Agenda Item 5D - April 2023
    This agenda item presents a follow-up to the February 2023 update on the Teacher Residency Grant Program funded by 2018, 2021, and 2022 legislation and on the Statewide Residency Technical Assistance Center and School Counselor Residency Programs authorized by 2022 legislation. Commission staff and the project team from WestEd will be present to review key findings and to answer questions about the data presented in the February 2023 agenda item.

    Agenda Item 4B - February 2023
    This agenda item presents an update on the Teacher Residency Grant Program funded by 2018, 2021, and 2022 legislation, and on the Statewide Residency Technical Assistance Center and School Counselor Residency Programs authorized by 2022 legislation. WestEd is conducting an evaluation of the Teacher Residency programs authorized by the 2018 state budget and will provide an overview of their findings to date.

    Updated April 03, 2024