Benefits for Stakeholders
When comprehensive school counseling services are fully implemented in local school district/supervisory unions using the VTCSCP model as a guide, many benefits can occur.
Benefits for Students & Families
- Focuses on all students
- Enhances academic, career and social emotional development
- Centers on students’ needs
- Seeks students’ and families input
- Encourages more interaction among students & families
- Provides a developmental and preventative focus
- Increases knowledge of self and others
- Enhances life coping skills
- Develops decision-making skills
- Increases opportunities for school counselor‐student interaction
- Develops a system of long‐range planning
Benefits for School Counselors, Teachers, Administrators, Agency of Education & Local School Boards
- Places school counseling in the mainstream of the total educational system
- Contributes to a team effort to enhance students’ academic, career and social/emotional development
- Provides relevant curriculum and a clearly designed structure using school counseling standards
- Establishes the school counselor as a resource/consultant
- Encourages teachers’ input into the delivery of the comprehensive school counseling Service
- Encourages positive, collaborative working relationships
- Defines the role of school counselors as educators
- Provides ongoing evaluation data concerning the full implementation of the Service, the work of school counselors within the Service, and the attainment of relevant school counseling student outcomes
