This digest describes the structural and programmatic components of the Missouri Comprehensive Guidance Program Model, a model designed to help school districts develop comprehensive and systematic guidance programs oriented toward overall student development. It discusses the content of the model (based on the concept of life career development)…

This document describes a model for a developmentally based K-12 school guidance program which parallels the identifiable developmental stages children go through as they mature, and systematically addresses the learning, personal/social, and career needs that students have at various developmental stages. Lists of competencies are provided in…

The workplace is changing, and both education for employment in the workplace and a subset of the educational system that is directed towards meeting the career development needs of students and adult workers will also change. The basic four-part model of career guidance will continue to be useful. The tools and techniques that are used in each…

This guide was designed to assist school administrators, teachers, counselors, parents and others who are interested in developing guidance programs which meet the needs of young adolescents in Oregon. Practices, procedures, and forms that school districts have found to be most useful in implementing a coordinated guidance and counseling program…

The mandate of the National School Safety Center (NSSC) is to focus national attention on cooperative solutions to problems that disrupt the educational process. Special emphasis is placed on efforts to rid schools of crime, violence, and drugs, and on programs to improve student discipline, attendance, achievement and school climate. NSSC…

Any advice and guidance offered to students about to embark on tertiary level distance education courses should help them to address problems that are not only practical and organizational, but also educational and intellectual. Students need to consider the suitability of distance education for their needs and circumstances as well as the…

This resource manual prepared for the Baltimore City Public Schools describes local programs that provide services in the following areas: (1) child and sexual abuse; (2) counseling; (3) education and careers; (4) employment and training; (5) health; (6) housing; (7) parenting and child care; (8) recreation; (9) runaways and homeless; (10) teen…

This guide is one of nine activity books designed to support a comprehensive developmental guidance program model developed to aid school planners and guidance personnel in the improvement of existing programs or the implementation of new programs. The model materials focus on program planning, staff development, guidance curriculum, and activity…

This guide is one of nine activity books designed to support a comprehensive developmental guidance program model developed to aid school planners and guidance personnel in the improvement of existing programs or the implementation of new programs. The model materials focus on program planning, staff development, guidance curriculum, and activity…

This guide is one of nine activity books designed to support a comprehensive developmental guidance program model developed to aid school planners and guidance personnel in the improvement of existing programs or the implementation of new programs. The model materials focus on program planning, staff development, guidance curriculum, and activity…

This guide is one of nine activity books designed to support a comprehensive developmental guidance program model developed to aid school planners and guidance personnel in the improvement of existing programs or the implementation of new programs. The model materials focus on program planning, staff development, guidance curriculum, and activity…

This guide is one of nine activity books designed to support a comprehensive developmental guidance program model developed to aid school planners and guidance personnel in the improvement of existing programs or the implementation of new programs. The model materials focus on program planning, staff development, guidance curriculum, and activity…

This guide provides a model for guidance needs assessment for elementary school counselors. Following an introduction discussing the lack of appropriate needs assessment instruments for the elementary level, background information on the development of the model instrument is given. The rationale for the verbal, interactive model, which was…

This publication is intended to assist school personnel to expand their professional understanding of the problem of child abuse and neglect, improve their reporting procedures, and deal with prevention and support activities within the school and community. The nature, causes, extent, and effects of child abuse and neglect are treated briefly in…

This project assess the relative adequacy of student services, with particular emphasis on career components, as seen by faculty and staff, and current students and graduates of six vocational-technical institutes (VTI's) in Maine. Telephone contacts, a mail survey, and extensive data analysis were conducted. Results indicate that all six of the…