Personalized Student Counseling: A Roadmap to Success

The Counseling and Behavioral Services department supports professional school counselors in providing a comprehensive counseling program supporting students in their educational, career, personal, and social development. The department includes Counseling, Social & Emotional Learning (SEL), Behavioral Health, and Homeless Support. 

We're creating a video series designed to help students and parents learn more about Personalized Counseling in Humble ISD. This first video outlines the individualized approach to counseling, and identifies services available to our students. Hear Dr. Fagen and Dr. Leigh explore how Advanced Learning, Career and Technical Education, and the Counseling department have come together under Personalized Student Success to offer each student a unique and personalized approach to planning their customized educational pathway, while focusing on positive mental health.

In Humble ISD, we believe in a personalized approach to counseling. Each elementary student will receive one individual meeting and each secondary student will receive two individual meetings each year with their counselor. In these meetings, students will explore their goals and aspirations, and discuss the options for their personal path in Humble ISD. Additionally, counselors will be working with students and teachers in the classroom to provide additional avenues for student success. This partnership gives Humble ISD students a unique approach to meeting their personal goals, career pathways, and setting them up for success.

School Counseling Program Structure

Professional School Counselors in Humble ISD follow the Texas Model and are available on all Humble ISD campuses to provide a Comprehensive School Counseling Program. School Counselors provide services to all students in the following areas:  

Individual Planning - Provide guidance to help students plan, monitor, and manage their personal, educational and career goals, and facilitate transition activities for post-secondary education and training. 

Guidance Curriculum - Help students develop their full educational potential and develop competence in essential life skills, including exploring a student's interests and career objectives.

Responsive Services - Provide intervention for immediate personal, social, emotional concerns that may put the student's continued educational, career, personal, or social development at risk.

System Support - Support campus staff, parents, and the community to promote the educational, career, personal, and social development of students, as well as the Comprehensive School Counseling Program. 

School Counselors Provide:

• Consultation services with students and parents for academic, social/ emotional, and behavior concerns 
• Provide consultation services to staff and special program committees
• Promote career awareness and provide information and resources for post-secondary education
• Coordinate crisis intervention for students and staff
• Provide staff development and training for staff and parents
• Provide a personalized approach to address students' needs

The mission of Humble ISD school counselors is to provide opportunities for all students to develop an understanding of themselves in relationship to their environment and assume responsibility for their own actions and choices in their educational, career, and social environments.