WHAT is "Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling"?

Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling is an integral part of Saginaw Career Complex's total educational program, reflecting a change from the traditional/remedial emphasis of counseling to a more contemporary developmental/preventative emphasis. Prevention-orientation programs, stressing collaboration with other educational professionals and seen as integral parts of the educational process, are necessary elements of the guidance and counseling students receive so they may achieve their greatest potential with respect to academic, personal/social, and career development. Prevention assumes a place of central importance in the contemporary school counseling program at the Saginaw Career Complex.

WHAT is the philosophy of the "Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program"?

The philosophy of a comprehensive guidance and counseling program is based on two assumptions:

• Each individual is unique
• Individuals normally grow and develop in ways similar to those of other individuals their same age

Thus, a comprehensive guidance and counseling program contains components that address the individual and group needs of students. The professional school counselor has the major responsibility for the design and implementation of the program. However, administrators, teachers, psychologists, social workers, career development specialists, nurses, family service specialists, parents, and community resource persons also have a significant responsibility.

WHAT are the components of the "Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program"?

The Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program is developmentally appropriate for students and provides sequential activities organized and implemented by the Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Team members. The Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program has four components:

• Guidance Curriculum
• Individual Planning
• Responsive Services
• Systems Support

WHAT are the content areas of the "Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program"?

The program has three content areas:
• Career Planning and Exploration
• Knowledge of Self and Others
• Educational/Career-Technical Development

WHO is the "Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program" designed to address?

The Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program is designed to address the needs of 100% of the students in the School District of the City of Saginaw.

WHAT is the Mission Statement of the "Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program"?

The School District of the City of Saginaw believes that a quality Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program is an integral part of the total education program. The Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program of the School District of the City of Saginaw assures that all students will acquire and demonstrate competencies in the areas of (1) knowledge of self and others, (2) career planning and exploration, and (3) educational/career-technical development. Mastery of the outcomes of the Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program of the School District of the City of Saginaw will empower students to

Learn to learn
Learn to work
Learn to live
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over a lifetime.

WHO, in addition to the administration, are the Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Team Members at the Saginaw Career Complex?