A Statewide Partnership Model

Barbara Crudale, James Guarino, Arthur Lisi, Kevin QuinnRhode Island School Counselor Association

ASCA 2005 Annual Conference

Implementing Comprehensive

School Counseling

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The Rhode Island School Counselor Association

Who We Are

RISCA was established in 1999 Current membership is 50% of all school

counselors in Rhode Island RISCA represents 90% of the school

districts in the Rhode Island RISCA is critical to the success of State

partnerships that support school counseling

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Strategic ResultsWe Hope to Achieve

Every RI student achieves the ASCA National Standards

Comprehensive school counseling programs are implemented in every public school district in Rhode Island

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Partnerships Are The Key

We cannot do it alone

It requires government, education, industry and the school community working in collaboration with professional school counselors

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RISCA Partnerships

36 K-12 Districts

in Rhode Island

RIPublic School

Districts

Providence College

Rhode Island College

New England Institute of Technology

RI Post-Secondary

Schools

Superintendents

Principals

Social Workers

School Psychologists

Consumer Science Teachers

Human Services Agencies

Unions

Statewide Professional Associations

Dept of El. & Sec. Ed/Regents

Department of Higher Ed/ Governors

Regional Partnerships

STC Offices

Dept of Labor

Dept of Health

General Assembly

Rhode IslandState

Government

National Partnerships: ASCA, The Education Trust, The College Board, Center for School Counseling Outcome Research/UMass

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Post-SecondaryEducational Institutions

Providence College School Counseling Project

Rhode Island Association of Admissions Officers

New England Institute of Technology

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Professional Associations

There are many professional associations that help define and implement the State’s framework for school counseling:

― Superintendents— Principals — Social Workers— School Psychologists— Human Services Agencies— Unions— Consumer Scientists

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State Government

Government agencies that impact the design and implementation of the State’s framework for school counseling include:

— Department of Elementary & Secondary Education / Board of Regents

— Department of Higher Education / Board of Governors

— Department of Labor— General Assembly— Southern Rhode Island Collaborative— Department of Health

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National Partnerships

American School Counselor Association

The Education Trust—Transforming School Counseling Initiative

The College Board

Center for School Counseling Outcome Research/UMass-Amherst

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Partnership Toolkit

The Partnership Toolkit will help you identify key partners and how they can help you promote and save school counseling

It will help you organize critical information you need to plan for developing and enhancing partnerships in support of your counseling program

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Tool #1

Howdy Partner!

This tool helps you identify your partners and how they can help you

It gathers this information:― Name of Partner

― What They Can Contribute

― Expected Results from the Partnership

― Partner Contact Information

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Tool #2

Build a Bridge

This tool helps you establish a collaborative working environment

It gathers this information:― Name of Partner― Partner’s Informational Needs― How Information is Communicated― Shared Results Statements (Goals)― Implementation Strategies― Indicators of Success

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Tool #3

Develop a Plan

A results statement (goal) specifies an observable and measurable outcome

An action plan is developed for each results statement

Three data gathering templates:

― 3A—Results Statement Planning Tool

― 3B—Action Step Planning Tool

― 3C—Plan Summary Tool

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Tool #3A

Results Statements Tool

This tool organizes information about results statements:― Results Statement― Action Step― Begin & End Dates― Owner― Cost― Funding Source

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Tool #3B

Action Step Planning Tool

This tool offers the opportunity to take one action step from Tool #3A and write the steps needed to achieve the result

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Tool #3C

Plan Summary Tool

This tool organizes your results statements into a plan summary:― Results Statement― Action Steps― Begin & End Dates― Indicators― Owner― Cost― Funding Source

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RISCA Is Leading the Way

Our expected results are that every RI school district will:― Incorporate school counseling into its

strategic and annual planning processes, with significant input from counseling staff

― Define and document its essential counseling program

― Implement a school counseling data management system

― Build the capacity for transforming school counseling

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Remember—Partnerships Are The

Key We cannot do it

alone

Partnerships help us achieve our expected results

We must be pro-active in finding partners to help support the future of school counseling