School counseling services are provided at each elementary, middle and high school within MCPS and are supported by the School Counseling Services Unit staff located in the Carver Educational Services Center.

Our Mission
Professional school counselors are leaders who advocate, collaborate, and facilitate individual and system change to ensure every student has the knowledge and skills necessary for academic success and personal growth.

Our Guiding Principles
The Comprehensive School Counseling Program:

• Reaches every student
• Is comprehensive in scope
• Is preventative in design
• Is developmental in nature
• Is culturally competent
• Champions equity, access, and social justice
• Is an integral part of a total educational program for student success
• Addresses measurable student standards in the areas of academic, personal, interpersonal, career, and healthy development
• Includes classroom guidance, responsive counseling, individual planning and system support
• Is conducted in collaboration with all stakeholders
• Uses data to drive program decisions
• Monitors student progress
• Measures both process and outcome results and analyzes critical data elements
• Seeks improvement each year based on results data
• Shares successes with stakeholders
• Is clearly aligned with the mission of the schools
• Is based on national standards

Updated December 18, 2007 | Maintained by Om Rusten