2023-2024 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 issues/concerns 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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