2022-2023 Program and Budget Handbook

K-12 Counseling Services The Elementary or Secondary Counselor provides counseling services that enhance the learning process for all students, focusing on academic, career, and social/emotional development. Counselors serve a vital role in maximizing student success; they center on the whole child. Counselors remove barriers to academic achievement and wellness: -they utilize prevention, interventions, and enrichment strategies to foster student success, and promote equity and access for all. For Secondary Schools, this position may be funded to reduce the student-to-counselor ratio once the base program has been met.

• Participates in various multidisciplinary teams, such as the Student Support and Progress Team (SSPT) to identify necessary support services, e.g., , referrals within and outside of the school community, student assessments, interventions and layered continuum of supports; • Collaborates with school administration and staff in developing student knowledge, skills and attitudes that promote personal, social/emotional and academic growth; • Provides individual and group counseling to students in the academic, personal/social, and career domains; connects students with appropriate resources; • Assists in the collection and analysis of data relative to attendance, behavior and achievement and communicates/interprets the data to students, parents and teachers; • Consults and collaborates with the administrative and school support staff on student referrals for supplementary counseling, psychological evaluation, and case conferences, including crisis intervention;

• Participates in the development of the total educational plan of the school to improve school-wide outcomes; • Assists in the preparation of information for entry on student cumulative records; • Analyzes data relevant to student needs; • Assists with the development of transition programs to support successful student articulation and matriculation between grades and school levels; • Provides professional development and parent education workshops; • Monitors and case manages student progress for targeted students; • Develops programs to address student attitudes, understanding of self and others, peer relationships, goal-setting, conflict resolution, career awareness, college preparation and post secondary planning; • Consults with parents, school personnel and community agencies as a means of helping students with educational and personal problems that may interfere with their learning and success in school.

Only a Title I Schoolwide Program (SWP) school can purchase this position.

For additional information, please call (213) 241-6040.

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