paraprofessional

plural paraprofessionals

1. A person who is trained to assist a professional: for example, an assistant to an educator.

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   While these were years of rapid growth, with increasing involvement of paraprofessionals, peer counselors, and, as Rosen says, "good-hearted gay people who wanted to be supportive to their gay brothers and sisters," the atmosphere was still that of a community peer counseling center rather than a professional mental health center or alcoholism treatment center per se.

   1979 December 8, Dick Bowring, “HATS Helps Gay Alcoholics”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 20, page 10

1. not comparableOf or relating to this assistance.