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Benefits of a Comprehensive Elementary School Counseling Program

Benefits for students

* Improves academic performance and success

* Develops decision-making and problem-solving skills

* Promotes career exploration and development

* Broadens the student’s knowledge of the changing world.

* Increases opportunities for consistent counseling services throughout the school year

Benefits for parents

* Provides support for parents regarding their child’s educational development

* Involves parents in their child’s educational development and long-range planning

* Increases parent/school communication

* Increases knowledge of the assistance parents and students can receive from the counselor and school

Benefits for the school

* Promotes a program responsive to the students’and school’s needs

* Encourages positive & supportive working relationships

* Enhances the role of the counselor as a resource person

* Links to school & community resources

(Info. courtesy FBISD Devel. Guidance and Counseling Program)