School Counseling

Welcome! The Comal ISD Counseling and Student Support Department is dedicated to growing learners by focusing on students’ current and future needs. Counselors and Student Support Specialists are certified and/or licensed professionals who help students access resources and services. They also collaborate with parents/guardians, teachers, administrators and the community to help eliminate barriers to success. Additionally, counselors provide the following services as part of a Comprehensive School Counseling Program (CSCP):

RESPONSIVE SERVICE

The purpose of the Responsive Service component is to intervene with or on behalf of those students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grades whose personal circumstance, concerns, or problems are threatening to interfere with or are interfering with their healthy personal, social, career and/or educational development. With permission from a parent/guardian, counselors and student support specialists provide a range of services including short-term individual counseling, small group counseling, and referrals to outside agencies and support systems. We encourage students to discuss their problems with parents/guardians. If you believe your student would benefit from these services, please contact their campus counselor.

SYSTEM SUPPORT

The System Support component describes management activities which assure the delivery of a high quality guidance program, and service which indirectly benefit students by supporting other programs.

GUIDANCE CURRICULUM

The Guidance Curriculum component includes skill-based lessons and units designed to help all students in kindergarten through 12th grade develop competence in essential life skills.

INDIVIDUAL PLANNING

The Individual planning component is where students are guided in planning, monitoring and managing their own educational, career, personal and social development. Each student is provided with necessary steps toward his/her established goals.