This handbook provides practical assistance to all personnel involved with the development, organization, and maintenance of student services within the Illinois Education for Employment system. Part I focuses on organization of the Student Services Committees (SSCs). It defines student services; outlines considerations in the organizational aspects of forming, operating, and maintaining a SSC; describes management tasks; discusses needs assessment development and use; considers the methodology for student services plan development; and discusses articulation for regional student services. Examples are provided of how other committees have addressed the tasks. Part II focuses on the components of regional student services. It describes general counseling and provides sample general counseling activities for regional systems and sample regional planning for general counseling services. A chapter outlines considerations related to assessment and evaluation to be weighed in development of the Student Services Plan. Other topics are sources of labor market and occupational information and its integration into the regional plan and education and career planning and its integration into the regional plan. Finally, student placement is defined, and sample placement activities for regional student services and sample regional planning for regional placement services are provided. Follow-up is briefly addressed. Part III lists six resource organizations. (YLB)