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Laurens Central adopts K-12 Comprehensive Counseling Services Plan for 2025-26
Summary
The board adopted a district K-12 Counseling Services Plan aligning to ASCA and NYSED standards, naming counselors Ross Gardner and Thomas Lisi and detailing programs from new-student orientation to crisis intervention, SEL curricula and program evaluation metrics.
The Laurens Central School Board received and reapproved the district's K-12 Comprehensive Counseling Services Plan for the 2025-26 school year, which lays out staff roles, delivery systems and a multi-tiered menu of academic, social-emotional and college-career services.
The plan lists Ross Gardner as Elementary Counselor (PK-6), Thomas Lisi as Secondary Counselor (7-12), Kelly Gardner as School Psychologist and Dawn Wood as Counseling Department Secretary. It states that the counseling program is aligned with the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model and NYS Education Department guidance (PART 100.2), and describes direct services (individual/group counseling, classroom lessons) and indirect services (referrals, parent meetings, consultation) used to support students.
Program activities described include new-student orientation, grade-level orientation (7th, 9th, 12th events), junior/senior college planning, visits from college and military representatives, BOCES tours, job shadowing, peer mentoring, and use of SchooLinks and SchoolTool for tracking and outreach. Interventions and curricula cited include IEP/504 counseling, crisis counseling and assessment, Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for Schools (TCIS), PAX, Zones of Regulation and a Flex Period at the start of the school day. The plan also calls for annual program evaluation using metrics such as attendance, discipline referrals, graduation rates and program usage data.
The board packet includes appendices and links to ASCA standards; the counseling team and advisory council are identified as responsible for ongoing review and updates.
