• Comprehensive School Counseling Program Benefits

    Fully implemented Comprehensive School Counseling Programs greatly benefit all individuals involved, including students, parents/guardians, teachers & the community.

     Benefits for Students

    • Student-centered program services are available to ALL students
    • Enhances student academic performance
    • Increases interaction among students
    • Provides a developmental and preventative focus
    • Promotes knowledge and assistance in career exploration and development
    • Enhances life coping skills
    • Helps students feel connected to school
    • Enhances student social/emotional development
    • Develops decision-making skills
    • Increases knowledge of self and others
    • Broadens knowledge of our changing work world
    • Increases opportunities for school counselor-student interaction
    • Develops a system of long-range planning for students

     Benefits for Parents/Guardians

    • Enhances students’ academic performance and their social/emotional and career development
    • Encourages outreach to all parents/guardians
    • Provides support for parents/guardians regarding each child’s educational development
    • Increases opportunities for school counselor interaction
    • Encourages input of parents/guardians
    • Provides parents/guardians information about available resources
    • Assures parents/guardians that all children will receive support from the school counseling program

    Benefits for Teachers

    • Contributes to a team effort to enhance students’ social/emotional, academic,  and career development
    • Provides relevant curriculum ideas through the use of school counseling grade-level expectations
    • Establishes the school counselor as a resource/consultant
    • Encourages teachers’ input into the delivery of the comprehensive school counseling program
    • Fosters positive, collaborative working relationships
    • Defines the role of school counselors as educators

    Benefits for the Community

    • Encourages input from business, industry, labor, and other community partners, including community mental health and social service agencies
    • Provides increased opportunities for collaboration among school counselors and business, industry, labor, and other community partners, including community mental health and social service agencies
    • Enhances the role of the school counselor as a resource person
    • Facilitates the development of students as active, responsible citizens
    • Increases opportunities for business, industry, labor, and other community partners, including community mental health and social service agencies, to actively participate in the total school program
    • Enhances students’ academic performance as well as their social/emotional and career development
    • Supplies a future workforce that has decision-making skills, pre-employment skills, and increased worker maturity