BECOME A SHPA SCHOLAR! 

The Native American and Indigenous Scholars Project (SHPA)  is designed to help reduce the profound gap in the numbers of school counselors and school psychologists appropriately trained to respond to the needs of Native American and Indigenous youth served in special education. 

The SHPA Project provides an inter-professional cohort model, NAI  mentors and collaborators, models, readings, ongoing specialty seminar, and supervised collaborative clinical experiences at Bonsall High School and Norman L. Sullivan Middle School.

We emphasize strength and resilience-based evidence-based interventions that affirm the culture of the child and recognize the influences of historical trauma and colonization.

Combined with graduate studies and coursework, we learn and use specialized knowledge to differentiate differences from disability, and to help design and deliver culturally appropriate pedagogical and psychological services.

All project students are accepted to one of 2 graduate programs in School Psychology or School Counseling.

SHPA is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Projects. H325K190006