Counseling Program Plan

Individual Planning:   By the end of the school year the school counselors would have done the following 

• Provide continued support to students in need through individual counseling, small group counseling, consultation, or referral to services outside the school or district License Professional Counselors.  

  • Provides Individual  & Small Group Counseling

  • Follow up with students regarding problem solving strategies

  • Collaborates/consults with stakeholders to address the educational, personal, and social needs of our students

  • Make referrals to outside mental health agencies, social service agencies, special programs, and district Licensed Professional Counselors.

  • Provides documentation on interventions/ crisis services

  • Design, plan, and implement lessons to address problems of specific groups

  • Consults with other counselors to ensure adherence to ethical and legal codes

  • Works with campus staff to reiterate goals and related

College and Career Planning: 

By the end of the school year all 5th grade students will have completed lessons in the College and Career readiness workbook.

Guidance and Curriculum: Help all students develop transferable SEL skills relative to their educational, career, personal, and social development. 

• Provide lessons to students that facilitate growth, development, and transferable skills.

• Plan, organize, implement, and deliver structured group lessons according to the district’s guidance curriculum.

• Teach the school guidance curriculum components through the use of effective instructional strategies and planned structured groups considering diverse student populations and needs for differentiated instruction. 

• Work with students, staff, parents or guardians, and the community to identify priorities where students will be served through the guidance curriculum component.

• Create a balanced curriculum by using well-planned and intentional activities and materials, incorporating guest speakers, and offering engaging delivery techniques, including technology tools.

• Sample guidance lessons: Social-Emotional Learning, Intrapersonal Effectiveness:  Motivation, Interpersonal Effectiveness:  Relationship, Post-Secondary Education and Career Readiness: Decision-making skills, Personal Health and Safety:  Self-esteem and body image

  • Guidance lessons in the classroom:

    • Test-taking tips, Responsibility, Anti-Bullying, Career Planning and SEL Lessons, Personal Boundaries, Decision-Making Skills

  • Anti-drug, Anti-bullying  presentations, etc.

Responsive Services & System Supports: 

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

• Participate in campus-based school improvement planning and goal setting. 

• Clearly articulate and communicate the counseling program’s management system and related program action plans to campus and district staff, parents or guardians, and the community. 

• Participate in staff development and continuing education opportunities to improve job-related skills and research to identify best practices in implementing a comprehensive school counseling program. 

• Consult with the teachers, administrators,  students, and other stakeholders

• Advocate on behalf of students’ academic, behavioral, social, and emotional needs

• Identify and coordinate resources that indirectly benefit students

• Provide support for parent education programs and community relations efforts.

• Invite members of the community (industry & leaders)  to be guest speakers for parent and student meetings/classes.

• Pursue professional development/staff workshops/conferences

• Cooperate in the implementation of school-wide, district-wide, or state-wide activities 

• Attend department meetings with teachers; conference with teachers regarding student needs.

• Accountability; record request; reviewing records. Accounting for cumulative records.

Other Duties: Dismissal Duty, RTI documentation, 504 documentation, Special Education Referrals and LPAC duties.