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Personal and Social Competency Resources/ASCA Standards:  (PS1) Understanding/Respecting Self & Others; (PS2) Decision-making and Achieving Goals; (PS3) Safety and Survival Skills

 

To help close achievement (and opportunity and attainment) gaps, I've highlighed in red below personal/social development skill and advocacy resources (including evidence-based classroom curricula) that every School Counselor can share with K-12 stakeholders via their School Counseling Program Advisory Councils, School Counseling Core Curriculum classroom lessons, planning for every student, group and individual counseling, and School Counseling Program website resource tabs for students, educators, and families:

 

  • #scchat: Hashtag for ongoing professional school counselor chat on Twitter moderated by school counselor educator Dr. Erin Mason  & school counselor and school counselor education doctoral candidate Danielle Schultz
  • #SCcrowd: Hashtag for School Counselor crowdsourcing, online twitter school counselor to school counselor consultation, networking, and creativity; website and blog: schoolcounselorcrowdblog.weebly.com
  • 100 National Standards from Mrs. Puglisi: http://www.susanohanian.org/show_sarahsnotes.php?id=29
  • 211 National Health & Human services hotline phone including safe surrender sites for babies
  • Action for Healthy Kids: Addressing childhood obesity, undernourishment, healthy kids and schools www.actionforhealthykids.org... 
  • After a Suicide: A Tool-Kit for Schools  https://www.sprc.org/library/AfteraSuicideToolkitforSchools.pdf
  • AIDS Action www.aidsaction.org
  • AIDS/HIV information phone line (national 24 hours): 1.800.CDC.info
  • Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth: A Practitioner's Guide https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/Practitioner/YouthGuide/YouthGuideOrderFrom.htm
  • American Counseling Association (ACA): home of the ACA Code of Ethics www.counseling.org
  • American Labor Studies Center: Resources for teaching K-12 students about labor, labor studies, and the history of labor https://www.labor-studies.org/
  • American School Counselor Association (ASCA) (home of Ethical Code for SCs, ASCA SC Program Model framework, ASCA National Standards, ASCA SC Competencies) www.schoolcounselor.org
  • Association of International Educators (NAFSA) www.nafsa.org 
  • Binge Drinking Prevention: National College Health Initiative's High-Risk Drinking Learning Collaboration https://www.nchip.org/ Center for the Improvement of Child Caring: All children have the right to the opportunity to achieve their full potential and the right to be free of abuse, neglect and exploitation. All parents have a right to and are deserving of the best possible education, training and support so they can maximize their efforts in effectively and humanely raising healthy, responsible and productive young people. www.ciccparenting.org
  • The Center for Effective Discipline: Educating about better parenting and education that involves ending corporal punishment toward children and using evidence-based, nonviolent, safer alternatives https://www.stophitting.com/
  • Center for Science in the Public Interest: Advocating nutrition and health, food safety, alcohol policy, and sound science www.cspinet.org
  • Center for Media Literacy: Helping citizens, especially the young, develop critical thinking and media production skills www.medialit.org... 
  • Center for Mental Health in Schools https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu 
  • Check Yourself: A place for teens to check where they are with alcohol and other drugs www.checkyourself.com
  • Coaching Boys into Men: Sports-based violence prevention tools for coaches and other adults in schools to teach respectful relationships and end dating/relationship violence www.coachescorner.org
  • Coalition for Positive Sexuality/Di Que Si! (English/ Español): Giving teens information and affirming their decisions about sex, sexuality, and reproductive control www.positive.org... 
  • College Student Educators International (ACPA): Supports and fosters college student learning www2.myacpa.org...
  • Common Sense Media: Family media and technology information www.commonsensemedia.org
  • Comprehensive Health Education Foundation: Promoting health education especially for people most affected by health inequities www.chef.org...
  • Computers for Youth: CFY's Take IT Home program improves children’s learning environment at home and to strengthen the school-home connection www.cfy.org
  • Connect Safely: Smart socializing starts here (social media safety tips for youth)www.connectsafely.org/
  • Consumers Union www.consumersunion.org     
  • Developmental Assets: Search Institute’s framework of 40 Developmental Assets has become the most widely used approach to positive child and adolescent development in the United States. The assets are grounded in extensive research in child and adolescent development, resiliency, and prevention. They represent the relationships, opportunities, and personal qualities that young people need to avoid risks and to thrive www.search-institute.org/ 
  • EconEdLink: 430+ K-12 lessons for economic education and financial literacy free to teachers, school counselors, college counselors sponsored by the Council for Economic Education http://www.econedlink.org/
  • Father & Son's Social Justice Chapter Books for Children & Adults www.amazon.com...
  • Father & Son's Social Justice Picture Books for Children & Adults www.amazon.com
  • The Fourth R: Evidence-based curriculum to end dating violence, build healthy relationships, and reduce risky behaviors including unsafe sex and substance use www.youthrelationships.org/about_fourth_r.html
  • Gender, Race, and Inclusive Education Project: (Peggy McIntosh/Wellesley Centers for Women) www.wcwonline.org... 
  • The Giraffe Heroes Project: Encouraging today's heroes and training tomorrow's heroes--Moving people to stick their necks out for the common good and giving them tools to succeed www.giraffe.org
  • Happy Planet Index www.happyplanetindex.org
  • Hetrick-Martin Institute: Empowerment, education, & Advocacy for LBGTQ Youth www.hmi.org
  • High-Quality Decision Making (research-based ACIP model:  alternatives, consequences, information, plans) https://www.careerkey.org/asp/your_decision/high_quality_decisions.html
  • High School Counselor Week https://hscounselorweek.com/
  • International Model for School Counseling Programs: Adding global/cultural/family domain/standards/competencies to ASCA Model (click on International Counseling Standards): https://www.aassa.com/page.cfm?p=356
  • Its Your Sex Life: Public information campaign on sex education www.itsyoursexlife.com
  • Kids' Turn Curriculum: Healing children and parents/guardians from family separation and divorce https://kidsturn.org  
  • Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum: The USA's only anti-bullying, diversity-affirming museum for children and youth (Ewing, NJ) https://kidsbridgemuseum.org
  • Microaggressions--Power, Privilege, and Everyday Life: Blog that provides a visual representation of how ignorant comments and acts enforce uncomfortable, violent, and unsafe realities for multiple nondominant cultural identities and how social difference is produced and policed in everyday lives by comments and actions by people all around us https://microaggressions.com
  • National Association of School Psychologists (NASP): evidence-based academic, emotional/social success resource pages https://www.nasponline.org/resources/index.aspx
  • The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy www.thenationalcampaign.org
  • National Center on Response to Intervention (RTI): Integrating instructional and assessment components into an effective prevention system. When educators systematically monitor students’ academic and behavioral progress to make data-based instructional decisions, educators teach more effectively and their students’ achievement increases considerably www.rti4success.org/
  • National Safe Schools Roundtable: LBGT safe schools programs www.safeschoolsroundtable.org...
  • National School Climate Center: Promoting a positive and sustained school climate: a safe, supportive environment that nurtures social and emotional, ethical, and academic skills www.schoolclimate.org/
  • National Sexuality Education Standards: The goal of the National Sexuality Education Standards: Core Content and Skills K–12 is to provide clear, consistent and straightforward guidance on the essential minimum, core content for sexuality education that is age-appropriate for students in grades K–12.The Standards are presented both by topic area and by grade level. www.futureofsexed.org/fosestandards.html
  • National Sexuality Resource Center: Sexual literacy with a social justice perspective https://nsrc.sfsu.edu... 
  • New Media Literacies: The New Media Literacies constitute the core cultural competencies and social skills that young people need in our new media landscape. We call them "literacies," but they change the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to one of community involvement. They build on the foundation of traditional literacy, research skills, technical skills, and critical analysis skills taught in the classroom. If these New Media Literacies are learned - and they can be learned without computers in the classroom - they can form the building blocks for students' participation in new media: Play, Performance, Simulation, Appropriation, Multitasking, Distributed Cognition, Collective Intelligence, Judgment, Transmedia Navigation, Networking, Negotiation,  and Visualization www.newmedialiteracies.org/
  • New York Collective of Radical Educators www.nycore.org
  • Partnership at Drugfree.org www.drugfree.org
  • Planned Parenthood: A reason for being www.plannedparenthood.org
  • Playgrounds by Leathers (community-built) https://leathersassociates.com/
  • Positive Behavioral Intervention Supports/ Functional Behavioral Analysis (OSEP Technical Service Center for Evidence-Based Schoolwide Interventions): Using positive methods of education to achieve academic and behavioral goals for K-12 students www.pbis.org...
  • PreventObesity.net Supporting all those working to change policies and environments to help children and families eat well and move more, especially in communities at highest risk for obesity www.preveventobesity.net/
  • Public Allies: Advancing new leadership to strengthen communities, nonprofits, and civic participation   www.publicallies.org 
  • Registered Apprenticeship: Earn, learn, succeed www.doleta.gov
  • Respect Works! Tools to prevent teen dating violence: developing comprehensive school policies, evidence-based school curricula, reinforcement, and activating student leadership www.respect-works.com
  • Rethinking Schools www.rethinkingschools.org...
  • SafeKids.com: Online safety & civility www.safekids.com... 
  • Safe Kids USA: Preventing injuries at home at play and on the way www.safekids.org
  • SchoolCounselor Blog: Sharing innovative ideas, lessons, & quality resources (Danielle Schultz) https://www.schcounselor.com/
  • Schools for for Chiapas/Escuelas para Chiapas(English/Español): Educating for a new and better world www.schoolsforchiapas.com...
  • School Mental Health.org www.schoolmentalhealth.org
  • SCOPE: School Counselors' Online Professional Exchange: Micro-stories of positive change and influence from the field (Dr. Erin Mason) https://sconlineprofessionalexchange.blogspot.com/
  • Screening for Mental Health (free assessments and resources) https://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/
  • SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Peggy McIntosh, Emily Style, & Brenda Flyswithhawks at the Wellesley Centers for Women) www.wconline.org
  • Sex, Etc.: Sex education by teens for teens www.sexetc.org
  • SexEd Library: 100+ lesson plans from SIECUS www.sexedlibrary.org
  • Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS): Promotes comprehensive education about sexuality, and advocates the right of individuals to make responsible sexual choices https://www.siecus.org/  
  • SIDA: 800-344-SIDA
  • Smoking Cessation Program for Teens www.iquitathitops.com...
  • Soundout: Student voice in schools www.soundout.org
  • The Sparkle Effect: Innovative student-run program encourages teens nationwide to include students with disabilities in school-based cheerleading and dance programs. The result: students with disabilities experience true acceptance and gain confidence as high-school students inspire entire communities to embrace inclusion www.thesparkleeffect.org
  • STI/STD National Hotline: 800-227-8922
  • Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) www.sadd.org
  • Student Success Skills: Evidence-based school counseling curriculum for cognitive and social skills K-12 www.studentsuccessskills.com
  • Systematic training for effective parenting (STEP): Research-based parenting curricula, videos, kits, and books www.steppublishers.com
  • Teachers for Social Justice www.teachersforjustice.org
  • Teaching for Change: Building social justice starting in the classroom www.teachingforchange.org
  • Tobacco Free Kids www.tobaccofreekids.org
  • Union of Concerned Scientists www.ucsusa.org
  • United Nations Global School Bus: Global teaching and learning project www.un.org...
  • United States Student Association: Developing leaders and amplifying student voices by mobilizing grassroots power www.usstudents.org
  • Universal Health Care Action Network www.uhcan.org
  • VirtualSchoolCounselor.com: Resources for school counseling program websites https://www.virtualschoolcounselor.com/ 
  • Welcoming Schools Project: LGBT-inclusive curriculum addressing family diversity, gender stereotyping, & name-calling in K-5 environments www.welcomingschools.org... 
  • What's Your Parenting Style? Quiz: www.activeparenting.com
  • Words Can Work: Knowing the issues, talking with kids https://wordscanwork.com
  • World AIDS Campaign www.worldaidscampaign.org
  • World Contraception Day (September 26) www.your-life.com/en/home/world_contraception_day/ 
  • Zinn Education Project: Teaching "A People's History" 6-12  https://zinnedproject.org/
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