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Mr. José Chaparro

Certified Rehabilitation Counselor,
JOSÉ L. CHAPARRO, MA, CRC, INC.

Contact Details

JOSÉ L. CHAPARRO, MA, CRC, INC.
Clovis, CA 93612

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Bio

I graduated in 1980 from the California State University, Fresno Rehabilitation Counseling program with a Master of Arts degree. My rehabilitation counseling career began April 1, 1981. I have been in private practice from 1991 to 1994 and from April 1, 1998 to present. Most of my rehabilitation counseling since 1985 has been with industrially injured workers served by the State of California and the U.S. Department of Labor, as well as veterans with disabilities referred by the Veterans' Administration .

Additionally, I have done learning disability assessments, management in a work activity program and have served as adjunct faculty with the California State University, Fresno School of Education and Human Development, teaching graduate classes in Career Development Theory and Professional Issues in Rehabilitation Counseling. I have been on contract with the Social Security Administration Office of Disability Adjudication and Review since 1997, providing vocational expert testimony.

I am a past board member/Commissioner with the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification (CRCC) and served from 1993 to 1998. While with CRCC, I was chair and co-chair of the Standards and Credentials Committee, which was instrumental in recommending significant important changes and refinements to the professional certification of rehabilitation counselors. I was an appointee of CRCC to the Council on Rehabilitation Education, Inc. (CORE), serving as a member of the Commission on Standards and Accreditation from 1995 to 1998. As Commission members, we served as site visitors and reviewers of new and continuing accreditation applications by Master’s level rehabilitation counseling educational programs throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. I participated in several site visits on behalf of CORE since 1997 and until 2011.

I have also served on several boards at the local and national level since 1987 in vocational rehabilitation, disability issues, mediation and was a member and past board member of a local chapter of a national service club.

Aside from work, I play guitar and bass guitar and participate in my local church worship band. I also ride a recumbent trike.

Certifications

  • Certified Rehabilitation Counselor

Education

California State University, Fresno
Fresno
Bachelors, 1978
Spanish

California State University, Fresno
Fresno
Masters, 1980
Rehabilitation Counseling

Fresno Pacific Graduate School
Fresno, California, United States
Certificate in Workplace Conflict Management and Mediation, 2002

Job History

Jose L. Chaparro, M.A., C.R.C., Inc.
Rehabilitation Counselor/Vocational Expert Witness
Clovis, CA, United States
April 1998 - present