2008 Woodie Awards
Salve Graduate Student Making a difference in Newport County
Elisabeth Steinhardt
Issue date: 3/23/06 Section: News
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Ventresca attended Salve for undergraduate studies and graduated in 2003 with a degree in Administration of Justice and a concentration in Juvenile Justice. She is currently attending Salve to obtain her Master's in Rehabilitation Counseling. Ventresca is among the first group of students to be enrolled in the Rehabilitation Counseling Master of Arts program at Salve. She expects to graduate in December of 2006.
Q: How did you hear about the Rehabilitation Counseling Master's program at Salve?
A: I got introduced to program by Dr. Lance W. Carluccio who was the Dean of Graduate Studies and continuing education at Salve from 2003 until just recently when he resigned. He came into one of my psychology classes and told my class all the different jobs and career you can have with a Master's in Rehab Counseling.
Rehab Counseling is helping individuals with physical, mental and emotional disabilities obtain and maintain employment. It's based on employment being the central force in a person's life. It's based on the belief that even if a person has a mental disability, they are still able to obtain and maintain work.
Q: What are the benefits of Salve's Rehabilitation Counseling program? The teachers? Classes?
A: Sixty-five percent of the classes are online, which is really convenient to people who work full-time. All of the teachers are extremely nice and they really go above and beyond what they have to do to assist you in anything. They classes are really interesting and are based on discussions.
You can get into the program with any bachelor's degree, you just have the mindset that you'll be helping other people help themselves. The characteristics of someone who would I could see being in the program is optimistic, hardworking and open-minded.
The program includes people from insurance agencies, nurses, mental health counselors, etc., who all bring their outside knowledge and expertise to our class discussions.