Dates: 4-7pm October 23, November 20, December 11, January 15, February 19, March 19, April 16, May 14.

Location: Green Mountain Technology & Career Center, Hyde Park, VT

Cost: $525 for members
$670 for nonmembers
* An additional $225 for optional 3 graduate credits from St Michael's College
* $40 for textbook and materials.

Registration: http://www.lapdavt.org

Appropriate for school counselors

Course Description:

The ASCA National Model for School Counseling Programs offers a framework for all school counselors to use in standardizing the practices of school counseling. It offers counselors a comprehensive, preventative, developmental approach to the delivery of school counseling services. The course will focus on this model. As the course progresses participants will be able to assess their current counseling program and school/district needs, and begin the implementation of a comprehensive counseling program in their own schools.

At the conclusion of this course participants will:

• Understand the historical and philosophical bases for school counseling programs;
  
• Be knowledgeable about the National Model for School Counseling;
  
• Have built a foundation for their school counseling program that includes statements of philosophy, vision and mission;
  
• Have completed an audit of their current counseling program;
  
• Have cross-walked their current program with the National Model;
  
• Have developed a management system for their school’s counseling program;
  
• Have used school data to develop a counseling action plan;
  
• Have developed a calendar for school counseling activities;
  
• Have determined how their school counseling program will be delivered through a guidance curriculum, individual student planning, responsive services, and system support;
  
• Know how to evaluate the effectiveness of their program;
  
• and Know how to continually improve their school counseling program.

Instructor Kate Wilson and Participants of the Developing a Framework for School Counseling Programs course, April 2008.

About the Instructor

Kate Wilson, Ph.D. has been a practicing school counselor for 30 years. She worked 28 years in Maryland where she was a counselor, department chair, and high school counselor specialist in Montgomery County Public Schools. She has a Ph.D. in school counseling from the University of Maryland, with an emphasis on program administration. She has taught in the counseling graduate program at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins. She has served as a reviewer for The School Counselor, the professional journal of ASCA, and as President of the Maryland Association of Counselor Educators and Supervisors (ACES).

Publications include the chapter “Group Counseling in High Schools,” in Group Counseling in K-12 Schools: A Handbook for School Counselors by Kenneth R. Greenberg.