A Comprehensive School Counseling Program

1. School Guidance Curriculum:

• Taught to the whole classroom through developmental learning activities

• Comprehensible services for all students

• A minimum of 3 times per semester

• Collaboration with teachers, parents, and administrators

• Topics may include character traits, bullying, personal safety, and career readiness

2. Individual Student Planning:

• Designed to guide students toward their short or long-term goals

• One-on-one counseling services, 20-30 minutes, up to 6 total meetings

• Collaboration with teachers, parents, and administrators

• Topics may include educational, personal, social, anger, test anxiety, friendships, self-esteem, and more

• "Pep Talks" can occur as needed to address a temporary concern

3. Responsive Services:

• Respond and intervene on behalf of students to support immediate concerns

• Can be individual counseling, small group, consultation, or a referral to outside services

• Provided as needed

• Services can be preventative, remedial, or crisis-related

• Topics may include grief, stress, transitioning events, divorce, traumatic events, suicide, and self-harm threats

4. Indirect Student Services (System Support):

• Identify and coordinate resources, activities on campus, and in the community that indirectly benefit students

• Utilizes ongoing assessment of student, campus, and district data

• Collaborate with teachers, parents, administrators, support specialists, PTA, community members, and more

• Present professional development to teachers and staff, provide parent education programs

• Attend conferences, trainings, and/or community outreach  

Community Resources

Some of our community resources include:

• Frisco Threads - clothes (throughout the school year)

• School Supplies - backpacks and supplies to students in need

• Frisco Fastpacs - meals for students over the weekend

• Frisco Lovepacs - meals for students over the holidays