[Your Districts] Comprehensive Guidance Program
Counseling Referral Process
Presented By: [Your Name Here] [School] [Date]
Responsive Services
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Program Content
Strands, Big Ideas, Concepts, GLEs
Program Components
Toward School & Life Success for All Students
Personal and Social Development Academic Development Career Development
Guidance Curriculum Individual Planning Responsive Services System Support
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Responsive Services Component: Help/Support for Students
The focus of this presentation:
Procedures for helping/supporting students in order to remove barriers to academic achievement. Consultation/Collaboration among those involved in students life. Development/implementation of graduated interventions. Referral Process for individual students.
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When a concern for a student arises
Identify Area of Concern
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Potential issues/areas of concern:
Personal/Social Development
Examples:
Peer
Academic Development
Examples:
Grades Attendance Study
Career Development
Examples:
Exploration/Planning Post-Secondary
Relationships Anger Attitude Motivation
Skills Educational Planning
Options Applications
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Staff Intervention Strategies
Graduated Intervention
Crisis Situations (e.g. suicide, self-harm, abuse): Require immediate response; contact the Professional School Counselor ASAP. Recurring, chronic challenging behaviors: PSC consults/collaborates with families/school staff to plan home/classroom intervention strategies prior to formal referral. Pre-referral strategies may include: Parent/guardian contact: Home-based strategies PSC/Student/Teacher conference: Classroom- based strategies PSC/Student/Peer dialoguepeer support strategies
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Staff Intervention Strategies: Graduated
Intervention (Contd)
Classroom/Home/Peer
Intervention strategies are implemented and monitored for effectiveness. Effectiveness of strategies (students response) is measured to determine next steps (e.g., continue strategies, modify strategies, formal referral & PSC direct intervention with student).
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If more intensive intervention is required
A formal referral is made to Professional School Counselor
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A referral may be made by
Student Peer Teacher Parent School
(Self)
nurse Administrator Outside Agencies or Individuals
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Completing the Referral Form
Area(s)
of Concern Pre-Referral Intervention Strategies and Students Response to Intervention Reason for Referral Students Strengths/Interests
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Completing the Referral Form (contd)
Specific Observable Behaviors After checking the concern(s), please list specific behaviors that describe the concern(s)
Frequency Duration Intensity
Base
descriptions on observable, specific behaviors (fact rather than opinion).
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Completing the Referral Form (contd)
Parent/Guardian Contact Teachers make contact with parents before making the formal counseling referral Indicate the outcome of the parent/guardian contact
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Professional School Counselors Role in the Referral Process
After a referral is made, the PSC, in collaboration with teachers and/or parents/guardians, develops an action plan that may include:
Parent/guardian support Group counseling Individual counseling Mandated reporting (hotline) School nurse referral
Referral to outside agency or individual Special services referral Referral to Administrator Other
PSC follow-up with the referring person while maintaining student/family privacy & confidentiality
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Confidentiality
Professional School Counselors are bound by the ASCA Ethical Standards regarding confidentiality Information is to be kept confidential unless:
Disclosure is necessary to prevent clear and imminent danger OR Legal requirements demand information to be revealed (Example: subpoena)
The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) dictates that any documented information becomes a part of a students cumulative record
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District Policies
[Insert
here--any school board policies regarding referral procedures, confidentiality, mandated reporting, referral to an outside source, documentation, suicide, and legal & ethical issues here]
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When the referral is completed
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Use of Data
It is helpful for the Professional School Counselor to collect data regarding student behaviors This is necessary to determine which interventions to use, and to assess the effectiveness of interventions used Data may be collected from:
Any/all referral form(s) Attendance, grades, discipline referrals, cumulative file, nurse visits Specific observable behaviors (checklists, narratives, interviews)
Data may be used to develop a report to presented to stakeholders
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Questions?
Thank you for your time!
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