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What is the purpose of this program?
The Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Program will provide funds to allow elementary schools to expand their capacity to provide counseling services and to identify model strategies, enhance knowledge of what works, and expand the inventory of effective counseling programs. The emphasis of the program is on counseling services that focus on prevention and early intervention services for elementary school students.
How can these funds be used?
The School Counseling Program is designed to establish or expand elementary school and secondary school counseling programs. The Secretary is authorized to give special consideration to applications that:
- Demonstrate the greatest need for new or additional counseling services among children in the schools served by the local educational agency, in part by providing information on current ratios of students to school counselors, students to school social workers, and students to school psychologists;
- Propose the most promising and innovative approaches for initiating or expanding school counseling;
- Show the greatest potential for replication and dissemination.
The Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Program will provide resources to enable schools to develop promising and innovative approaches for initiating or expanding elementary school counseling. This program will support the hiring and training of qualified school counselors, school psychologists, child and adolescent psychiatrists, and school social workers, for elementary schools; provide greater student access to beneficial counseling services; and help identify effective strategies for providing counseling services to elementary school students that show potential for replication and dissemination.
What are the eligibility requirements?
Eligible applicants: LEAs.
What is the application or allocation process?
Fiscal Year 2003 grantees will be selected from the results of the Fiscal Year 2002 grant competition. No new applications are being accepted at this time.
Total FY 2004 Funding:
$33,799,000
Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools
Authorizing Legislation:
NCLB, Title V, Part D, Section 5421.
Name: Loretta McDaniel
Phone: (202) 260-2661
Email: Loretta.McDaniel@ed.gov
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