John Blando Distinguished Service Award

HEALTH AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Scholarship awarded for the Spring semester

• Awarding Department: Counseling
• Scholarship Intent: The John Blando Distinguished Service Award supports a scholarship for a graduate student in the Department of Counseling who has demonstrated experience with, or a commitment to, working with aging adults. Commitment could be demonstrated by an essay, paper, or presentation addressing, for example, issues related to such topics as mental health later in life, rehabilitation after illness or injury in later life, couple or family issues later in life, workplace reentry after retirement, lifelong learning or returning to college in later life, or grandparenting school aged-children
• Criteria: Demonstrated experience with, or commitment to, working with aging adults.
• Major: Single: Counseling
• Class Level: Undergrad: N/A; Grad: Masters
• Enrollment Status: Any
• Enrollment Requirement: Undergrad: N/A; Grad: 3 UNITS
• Financial Need as determined by the FAFSA and/or CA Dream App: Not a Requirement
• Citizenship: Any
• GPA: HS GPA: N/A; Undergrad GPA: 3.0; Grad SF State GPA: 3.0
• Contact Person: Dept. of Counseling
• Campus Address: BH 524
• Street Address: 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, California 94132
• Phone Number: (415)338-2005
• Email: rtoporek@sfsu.edu
• Web page: http://counseling.sfsu.edu/content/awards-and-scholarships
• Number of Awards: varies