What is a Counseling Program? A school counseling program is comprehensive in scope, preventative in design and developmental in nature.  School counseling programs are designed to ensure that every student receives the program benefits. Source:ASCA National Model, 2005

What is a School Counselor?

School Counselors focus on the relations and interactions between students and their school environment with the expressed purpose of reducing the effect of environmental and institutional barriers that impeded student academic success. Source:ASCA National Model, 2005

What is a ASCA?

The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) supports school counselors' efforts to help students focus on academic, personal/social and career development so they achieve success in school and are prepared to lead fulfilling lives as responsible members of society. ASCA provides professional development, publications and other resources, research and advocacy to more than 24,000 professional school counselors around the globe.  Source: www.schoolcounselor.org

Benefits -       

• Ensures every student receives the benefit of the school counseling program by creating a curriculum for every student
• Provides strategies for closing achievement gaps
• Endorses a rigorous academic curriculum for every student
• Promote advocacy for students
• Supports development of skills to increase student success.

Source: ASCA National Model, 2005
ASCA is a division of the American Counselor Association.
http://www.ascanationalmodel.org/ ASCA Model
http://www.schoolcounselor.org/content.asp?pl=325&sl=127&contentid=173 Ethical Standards