Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance
Program Delivery Components
- School Guidance Curriculum provides instructional support for the development of skills that are based on specific recognized content. Students are taught skills related to the development of healthy personal characteristics, values, and attitudes deemed important for healthy productive living.
- Individual Student Planning is a process that includes activities to assist students and their parents or guardians in planning, monitoring, and managing the student’s learning as well as his or her personal, educational, and career goals. Every school district has adopted policies to support the SEP/SEOP process as an essential element of the student’s education.
- Responsive Services meet the immediate concerns and needs of students, usually with a prevention focus, e.g., programs for dropout prevention, student assistance teams, peer leadership, and drug and alcohol prevention.
- System Support focuses on program development, implementation, and management, and connects the guidance program to existing family and community support and to school improvement and student achievement.
Comprehensive Guidance Standards
Standard 1: EVERY STUDENT: All counseling programs are designed to recognize and address the diverse needs of every student.
Standard 2: DATA EFFECTIVENESS AND PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT: The program uses current school data, including a formal student/parent/teacher College and Career Readiness Comprehensive School Counseling Program Systemic Assessment (needs assessment) that is completed and analyzed at least every three (3) years.
Standard 3: PLAN FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER READY PROCESS: Programs shall establish Plans for College and Career Ready for every student, both as a process and as a product, consistant with local board policy and the goals of the College and Career Readiness Comprehensive School Counseling Program, Secondary School Accreditation and Career Technology Education.
Standard 4: CAREER LITERACY: The College and Career Readiness Comprehensive School Counseling Program provides career literacy assistance for all students which includes: career awareness and exploration, job search, job application, interview skills, and post-high school opportuntities.
Standard 5: COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION: The program delivers a developmental and sequential school counseling curriculum in harmony with content standards identified in the Utah Model for College and Career Readiness Comprehensive School Counseling Program.
Standard 6: SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO DROPOUT PREVENTION WITH SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL SUPPORTS: These services are available to address the immediate concerns and identified needs of all students through an education-oriented and programmatic approach, and in collaboration with existing school programs and coordination with family, school and community resources.
Standard 7: ALIGNMENT: This includes vertical and horizontal alignment for communication, collaboration, and coordination with the feeder systems and schools regarding the College and Career Readiness Comprehensive School Counseling Program, K-12.
Standard 2: DATA EFFECTIVENESS AND PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT: The program uses current school data, including a formal student/parent/teacher College and Career Readiness Comprehensive School Counseling Program Systemic Assessment (needs assessment) that is completed and analyzed at least every three (3) years.
Standard 3: PLAN FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER READY PROCESS: Programs shall establish Plans for College and Career Ready for every student, both as a process and as a product, consistant with local board policy and the goals of the College and Career Readiness Comprehensive School Counseling Program, Secondary School Accreditation and Career Technology Education.
Standard 4: CAREER LITERACY: The College and Career Readiness Comprehensive School Counseling Program provides career literacy assistance for all students which includes: career awareness and exploration, job search, job application, interview skills, and post-high school opportuntities.
Standard 5: COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION: The program delivers a developmental and sequential school counseling curriculum in harmony with content standards identified in the Utah Model for College and Career Readiness Comprehensive School Counseling Program.
Standard 6: SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO DROPOUT PREVENTION WITH SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL SUPPORTS: These services are available to address the immediate concerns and identified needs of all students through an education-oriented and programmatic approach, and in collaboration with existing school programs and coordination with family, school and community resources.
Standard 7: ALIGNMENT: This includes vertical and horizontal alignment for communication, collaboration, and coordination with the feeder systems and schools regarding the College and Career Readiness Comprehensive School Counseling Program, K-12.