COUNSELING SERVICES

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Student Services

• Providing career guidance counseling to students within an individual or group school setting.
• Serving as a resource for student educational planning, career and life skills decision-making.
• Encouraging students to develop and enhance effective interpersonal communication skills and problem solving strategies.
• Screening students for appropriate program placement.
• Administering and interpreting career guidance assessments and surveys, including the LACOROP Student Career-Technical Interest Survey.
• Working with computer assisted counseling programs such as:  VIEW, Choices, or Internet Access.  (Availability of programs varies at each high school).
• Utilizing career resources such as current labor market information and community based job information.
• Providing work preparation and job retention assistance, including resume writing, interviewing skills, applications, networking strategies, and portfolio development.
• Assisting students in locating internships, job shadowing experiences, mentors, and specialized scholarship information.
  
  

Staff Support

• Supporting the school site guidance and counseling goals.
• Serving as a resource person for career guidance counseling to site counselors, classroom teachers, and ROP instructors.
• Providing specialized ROP and career-related workshops to groups of students or staff upon request.
• Meeting with school and district personnel to ensure that ROP activities are supportive and consistent with the total educational program of the host school and local partners.
• Assisting in the development of promotional activities, distributing course material, and implementing ROP program support services.
• Providing support and assisting LACOROP instructors with students who demonstrate behavioral problems, including: crisis prevention/intervention or discipline strategies to support classroom management.
• Monitoring ROP student progress via attendance and grade reports utilizing student intervention strategies.
• Facilitating LACOROP student and staff recognition opportunities (i.e. Student of the Month, Outstanding ROP Student of the Year, ROP Teacher of the Year, etc.).
  
  

Community Connections

• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with local partners.
• Distributing informational materials that reflect the mission of ROP.
• Assisting with career and college fairs, open house, and back-to-school nights.
• Supporting student achievement by attending community events.
• Assisting with transitions to post-secondary options, including community colleges, 4-year universities, career-technical schools, military, or the workforce.
• Actively developing new programs based on community needs and student interests.
• Cooperating with School-to-Career goals by creating business partnerships for job shadowing, internships, mentoring, career speakers, and employment.
• Providing community members with qualified, trained employees.
• Inviting local partners to participate in advisory committees.
• Participating in community-based organizations (i.e. Chamber of Commerce, Industry Education Council, PTSA, etc.)
• Enrolling employees in ROP courses to upgrade current career technical skills.
• Maintaining our commitment to work-based learning for students through the use of paid or unpaid community placements.
• Arranging field trips to enhance certain class experiences or curriculums.
  
  

All ROP Counselors:

• Are highly qualified counseling professionals.
• Possess and maintain a valid California Pupil Personnel Service Credential.
• Participate in on-going professional growth activities to promote excellence in the field of counseling.
• Support the National Standards for School Counseling Programs developed by the American School Counseling Association.