During National School Counseling Week, WVU students will advocate for school counselors with presentations and lessons both on campus and in local schools.
National School Counseling Week is a movement to raise awareness of the importance of school counselors and the challenges they are facing.
The WVU community is invited to view the decorated bulletin boards in Allen Hall and speak to the first-year School of Education and Counseling students about the importance of school counselors, and the challenges current and future school counselors are facing.
Students will be on hand on the following dates:
From 2 to 4 p.m., Monday (Feb. 2).
From 12:30 to 2 p.m., Tuesday (Feb. 3).
The WVU Counseling program has 10 interns across local counties in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Collectively, they are serving 18-plus schools, in more than nine counties/districts and more than 9,458 students.
Kaytlyn Miller, a counseling intern at Jayenne Elementary School in Fairmont, and Abby Taylor and Erin Smith, counseling interns at Mylan Park Elementary School, will also be on hand in their respective schools during media visits scheduled throughout the week.
School counselors are a necessary part of education but, on average, are often required to manage more than 400 students each, prohibiting them from providing all of the care and services students need.
Nearly eight million students in the United States don’t have access to a school counselor at all, and WVU students are working to change that.