CPS SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAM
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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 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
Taken from the Missouri Comprehensive School Counseling Program Manual
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  • Home
    • Program Overview
    • Program Philosophy
    • Program Benefits
    • Organizational Framework
    • Annual Program Reports
    • Program Research
    • Meet the Team
  • Resources
    • Community Resources >
      • After School Programs
      • Budgeting
      • Cell Phone Service
      • Clothing
      • Employment
      • Extracurricular Activities
      • Food
      • Furniture
      • General Needs
      • Housing
      • Life Coaching
      • Medical
      • Refugee Support
      • Utilities
    • Disorders & Diagnoses >
      • Addiction, Rehab & Recovery
      • Anxiety
      • Problematic Sexual Behavior
    • Mental Health Resources >
      • Mental Health Provider Directory
      • Burrell Behavioral Health
      • Family Counseling Center
      • Family Access Center for Excellence
      • Healthy Home Connections
      • Lutheran Family & Children's Services
      • MU Psychiatric Center
      • Other Residential & Impatient Facilities
    • Parenting Resources
    • School-Based Community Resources >
      • BC Schools MH Coalition
      • Bridge Program
      • FCC School-Based Therapy
  • Curriculum
    • Curriculum Overview
    • Grade Level Expectations
    • K-5 Abuse Prevention
  • Planning
    • Planning Overview
    • Elementary Student Planning
    • Middle School Student Planning
    • High School Student Planning
    • Gifted Program (EEE)
  • Responsive
    • Responsive Services Overview
    • Individual Counseling
    • Group Counseling
    • Crisis Counseling
    • Consultation
    • Referral
    • Trauma Informed Schools
  • Systems
    • Systems Support Overview
    • Ethical Responsibilities
    • Confidentiality
    • School Counseling Advisory Committee
  • Staff Login
  • Contact