Tier 1: Core Curriculum and School Counseling Activities

• Co-Teaching Classroom Lessons (Second Step Curriculum)

• Individual Learning Plans (Success Bound and Naviance Curriculum for High School, Career, and Postsecondary Planning)

• School-Wide Events (Open-House, Report Card Pick-Up, High School Fair, CTE Fair, Spirit Week, Red Ribbon Week, School Counselor Week, College and High School Field Trips, Attendance Workshops, 7th-8th Grade Parent Nights, Everfi)

Tier 2: School Counseling Supports

• Crisis Response Counseling (SI, HI, Self-Harm)

• Closing-the Gap Activities-(Equity and Access Lens) ( e.g. on-track lessons w/ progress monitoring, goal setting, student led conferences)

• Trauma-Focused Interventions (e.g. Bounce Back, CBITS)

• Aggression Prevention Interventions (e.g. Anger Coping)

• Social Skills Interventions (e.g. SS-Grin)

• Restorative Practices (e.g. peace circles, talking circles, RP conversations, After-School Reflections)

• Check-In/Check-Out

• Problem Solving and Stress Management Group (e.g. Everybody Matters by Elyssa’s Mission)

• Consultancy/Collaboration to identify root cause of behavior and progress monitor (parents, community partners, school-staff, network)

Tier 3: School Counseling Supports

• Collaboration w/ CPS Crisis Team and SASS

• Community Referrals (e.g. NowPow, SPIDER-IL Statewide Provider Database or community partnerships)

• Consultation w/outside therapist and/or DCFS

• Behavior Plans, Safety Support Plans, and Re-entry Plans

• Mental Health Individual School-Based Counseling (e.g. BPNC School Based Provider, School Social-Worker)

• Attendance Contracts

• A child may refer themselves.
• A teacher may refer a student.
• A parent may refer his/her child.
• A staff person on campus can refer a student.

• You have concerns with your child's attitude toward school.
• You have concerns with your child's academic growth.
• You have concerns with your child's relationships with peers at school.
• You have concerns with your child's personal development.
• You have concerns with your child's reactions to changes within the family that may be effecting his/her learning at school.

• Provides students with more one on one help, support, and intervention
• Increases specificity of interventions and supports and tailors them to the student
• Increases privacy for the student
• Removes the student from the situation or circumstance to discuss solutions to it
• Reduces anxiety and pressure on student
• Provides the student with the full attention of an adult
• Makes student feel secure
• Allows an adult to give a student undivided attention
• Frees the teacher up to continue teaching the rest of the class without having to stop to speak or counsel a student in the hall or away from the class

• When students are over emotional and cannot calm down in an appropriate and brief amount of time
• When a student’s needs are greater than those the teacher can provide in the classroom setting
• When a student requires more support and attention to address or solve a problem, issues, etc
• When students need more specific and individualized help, solutions, and plans to address issues
• When a student needs more privacy than a teacher can provide in the classroom

• Counselor referrals may be planned or spontaneous
• For planned referrals, have the student set up a day or days and times to meet with the counselor ahead of time and provide the student with reminders
• For spontaneous referrals where an incident happens and the student unexpectedly requires counselor support, send the student down to the counselor with a note briefly explaining what happened, or send the student down and call and explain to the counselor the issue.
  • You may walk the student down or send another student to walk down with the student to the counselor
  • The counselor may also come to the room to retrieve the student