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 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
- Encourages 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