Office of School Counseling
Friday Sendoff - November 8, 2019
Trailblazers Have Courage
MUST DO ITEMS - Please read this section carefully
Upcoming Meetings
Elementary Counselors Meeting
You asked, we listened! We will get a full Conscious Discipline training, including how to infuse it into our lessons, groups, individual sessions, and conversations with staff and families.
Thursday, Nov 21, 2019, 09:30 AM
Randallstown Community Center, Resource Drive, Randallstown, MD, USA
First Year Counselors Meeting
Thursday, Nov 21, 2019, 01:00 PM
Randallstown Community Center, Resource Drive, Randallstown, MD, USA
Middle School Counselors Meeting (morning option)
This session will provide a basic understanding of multiple gender identifies, a history of gender, basic terminology regarding identities and sexual orientation, techniques to create environments for non-conforming students and staff, and to learn strategies to support students dealing with harassment or micro-aggressions. 3 CEU's will be available.
Wednesday, Dec 4, 2019, 08:00 AM
Baltimore County Agricultural Center, Shawan Road, Cockeysville, MD, USA
Middle School Counselors Meeting (afternoon option)
Wednesday, Dec 4, 2019, 12:00 PM
Baltimore County Agricultural Center, Shawan Road, Cockeysville, MD, USA
High School Counselors Meeting (option 1)
Thursday, Dec 5, 2019, 07:30 AM
Loyola University Maryland - Timonium Graduate Center, Greenspring Drive, Lutherville-Timonium, MD, USA
High School Counselors Meeting (option 2)
Thursday, Dec 5, 2019, 11:30 AM
Loyola University Maryland - Timonium Graduate Center, Greenspring Drive, Lutherville-Timonium, MD, USA
Announcements
**NEW** Presentations from the recent MD-SPIN Suicide Prevention Conference are available on their website.
**NEW** The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) Center for Tobacco Prevention and Control has compiled a new webpage – Key Resources on E-cigarettes and Vaping. This new resource provides a “one stop shop” for information and materials to help address youth use of tobacco products, including electronic smoking devices (ESDs) such as e-cigarettes, vapes, and pod devices like JUUL®. As you know, use of these products has skyrocketed over the past few years – with a 78% increase in vaping among high school youth from 2017 to 2018 alone – leading the U.S. Surgeon General to classify this drastic rise in vaping an ‘epidemic’. On the website you will find materials and resources your staff and teachers can share with parents, students, and community members – with individualized links for each audience. There are also programs specifically designed as alternatives to suspension for schools to raise awareness on the harms of these products and to help students quit.
**NEW** Junior Achieve Inspire Parent Night is open to all BCPS families. Families can sign up here. This will be held at the fairgrounds (in the Cow Palace) on 11/12 at 6:00 - 8:00. Maryland's top employers will be there to share career information, as well as the CTE Office and the Office of School Counseling. If you have a moment, please feel free to stop in and get information from area organizations to share with students in your school. This event is meant to be a preview of the Junior Achieve Inspire event for 8th graders on 11/13-11/14 but is open to parents of students in grades 4 - 12. It is a great way to help them make decisions about magnet programs too!
Bilingual Behavioral Health Professionals and Resources for Families
Attached below are 3 documents with local resources for non-English speaking families seeking mental/behavioral health resources. One is a list of local bilingual professionals. The other is the Kennedy Krieger Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress. This program offers FREE mental health services for children and families who have developed emotional or behavior problems as a result of a traumatizing experience. Services include psychiatric evaluation, therapy, consultation with schools, and transportation for the families to attend appointments. We attached 2 flyers - one in English and one in Spanish.
Child Abuse and Neglect Training As a reminder, all staff in your building (as indicated in the photo below) have until 11/8 to complete the online training. After that time, you will receive an email from Sharon with a list of school staff who did not complete the online training. Share the following link: https://bcps-md.safeschools.com/login with those who need to complete the compliance training. Keep in mind that not every BCPS staff member received the online training invitation. Only positions indicated in the picture below need to complete the online training. If you have staff members (ie. interns or volunteers) that need to complete the training in person, contact your specialist for the PowerPoint.
LGBTQ+ Resources A Schoology group was established with GSA Resources. Whether your school has a GSA or not, this would be a great place to get resources, get help starting a GSA, or connect with others who run a GSA. The Schoology code is ZMBZ-4QXP-DKC89.
CPS Updates PowerPoint In the attachments below, you will find the PowerPoint from the 10/30 WebEx. The WebEx recording will be available in the near future.
Staff who must complete the online Child Abuse and Neglect training
Elementary School Counselors
Oh...The Possibilities!
Secondary Department Chairs
**NEW** Workforce Job Trends: Updated LMI Summaries from Workforce Development are attached below.
Naviance User Admin If you have not done so already, please review your Naviance users and deactivate any staff who are no longer in your building.
Careers in Construction Staff in the Office of Career and Technology Education, in conjunction with the Associated Builders and Contractors, Baltimore Chapter, invite all interested middle and high school students to participate in the annual Careers in Construction–Build Your Future contractor visit. This event is coordinated with a local construction contractor and will include a student interaction session and pizza lunch or breakfast at a date and time selected. The attachment below contains a memo with additional information, registration form, facilitator guidelines, and student selection sheet. Questions regarding this information should be directed to Valerie Brennan, 443-809-9588 vbrennan@bcps.org or Michelle Butt, 443-742-6125 mbutt@abcbaltimore.org
High School Department Chairs
Don't forget! Please submit your College Counselor Implementation Plan to your specialist by 11/22.
High School Counselors
**NEW** Bank of America Student Leaders Program for Current Juniors and Seniors
This is a unique opportunity for high school juniors & seniors to earn a paid internship at a local non-profit organization and participate in a national leadership summit in Washington DC. Past hosts of our interns have included – Strong City, Teach for America & Guidewell Financial Solutions. This program is unique as there is no academic requirement for admission. They are looking for youth that are passionate about their community and making an impact in the world. (see flyer attached below)
**NEW** Year Up Baltimore The Maryland College Application Campaign (MCAC) has partnered with Year Up Baltimore to provide a pathway to career and education. The Year Up Baltimore is a one-year training program for young adults, ages 18-24. It provides an intensive year-long program with a combination of hands-on skills development, coursework eligible for college credit, corporate internships, and wraparound support. For the first six months of the program, students develop technical and professional skills in the classroom. Students apply those skills during the second six months in an internship with one of Year Up’s corporate partners. To provide young adult a stepping stone to their college experience and/or to a career path
Master Course File Attached below is a sample your school can use to document courses for students new to BCPS. Please contact your specialist if you have any questions about classes. If your new student is also a student athlete, please be sure all courses are in the NCAA district list.
Middle School Department Chairs
**NEW** Remember that fabulous chart of EVERY CTE and magnet program in BCPS that Alicia Fales presented to you in September? We were able to get an electronic version of it. It has been added to the Schoology group in the CTE Resources folder. It is also attached below.
College Counselors
**NEW** FAFSA Line by Line Demo Webinar for students and parents 11/14 @3:00 - 4:00
- a live demo of the 2020–21 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) form,
- online resources to assist students and parents with the FAFSA process, and
- a live Q&A chat to answer your questions.
**NEW** Discover CCBC Information Sessions The Admissions Office will host Discover CCBC Information Sessions on Saturday, November 9th and Saturday, December 14th at 9a.m. See flyer attached below.
Application Waiver for University of Baltimore UB is partnering with MCAC to provide an application fee waiver code, which is valid until 2/28/2020. The fee waiver code is UBFRESH20 (must be entered in all caps).
MHEC Financial Assistance Programs
State Financial Assistance Programs and Applications
Tuition Waiver for Unaccompanied Homeless Youth
Tuition Waiver for Foster Care Recipients
NACAC Request for Admission Application Fee Waiver
Students who have limited financial resources may use the NACAC Request for Application Fee Waiver Form when applying for college. The form — aimed at students planning to enroll in post-secondary education immediately following high school graduation — helps ensure that access to college is possible for all.
College Fly-Ins
Recently added/updated Scholarships in Naviance
Imagine-America Scholarship
Denny’s Hungry for Education Scholarship
Girls in STEM Scholarship Award
NRA Civil Rights Scholarship
RevPart STEM Scholarship
Rove Pest Control Scholarship
Student Education and Leadership Fund Scholarship
Video Game Design Scholarship
The No Sweat Scholarship
Relevant Bulletin Items
November 1, 2019 Bulletin
https://intranet.bcps.org/superintendent/bulletin/2019/1101/Bulletin110119.pdf
816. TEAM BCPS DELETING NEGATIVITY: WORDS MATTER - NOVEMBER 2019
826. COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS – HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM (ECAP) LIAISON MEETING
840. SPECIAL EDUCATION – OVERCOMING DEPRESSION: FUNCTIONAL COPING SKILLS FOR TEENS AND TWEENS
841. SPECIAL EDUCATION - SENSORY STRATEGIES AT HOME AND SCHOOL
845. MARYLAND STATE RETIREMENT SYSTEM FALL 2019 PRERETIREMENT SEMINARS
847. OPERATION JOY FOR FAMILIES IDENTIFIED AS HOMELESS
851. BOARD OF EDUCATION POLICY 4102, Sexual Harassment
Leadership
Professional Development
**NEW** "Lunch & Learn" sessions provided by the Maryland Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention Network (MD-SPIN)
Traumatic Brain Injury & Suicide Risk 11/21 @12:00 - 1:00
Our Duty to Protect: Suicide Prevention for Mental Health Clinicians 12/19 @ 12:00 - 1:00
Register for either or both here. (The link may be blocked on BCPS wifi, so you may need to access it elsewhere).
**NEW** Upcoming YMHFA Course with Heather Radebaugh and Anne Galvin Thursday, 11/14 & Thursday, 11/21 @ 4:30-8:30 pm at Campfield ELC. You must attend both nights to earn the 8 CEU's.
**NEW** Are you an LCPC looking to become a Board-Approved Supervisor? LCPCM has an upcoming Supervision Workshop. December 12-13 in Columbia. 18 CEU's
Resource Roundup
**NEW** Check out this idea from Counselor Keri!! Games that Teach Self-Control 6 out of the 10 don't require any materials! (Warning - the link may not work in BCPS wifi. You may need to pull it up elsewhere.)
Lending Library Items of the Week:
Building Resilience in Students Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Whole-Staff Approach
This workbook-style resource shows K-12 educators how to integrate trauma-informed strategies into daily instructional practice through expanded focus on:
- The experiences and challenges of students impacted by ACEs, including suicidal tendencies, cyberbullying, and drugs
- Behavior as a form of communication and how to explicitly teach new behaviors
- How to mitigate trauma and build innate resiliency
Healing Days: A Guide For Kids Who Have Experienced Trauma emphasizes that children are not to blame for what happened, and that they can get help and look forward to a happy future. Kids will begin to understand their response to the trauma and learn some strategies for feeling safer, more relaxed, and more confident.
Kids will begin to understand their response to the trauma and learn some strategies for feeling safer, more relaxed, and more confident.
You can download an extensive Note to Parents and Caregivers including a list of helpful resources from APA.org.
Office of School Counseling Lending Library
Email Sharon Holter to borrow any items from our Lending Library.
Inspiration and Good News
BCACD Substance Abuse PD
First Year Counselors CTE Exploration Day
Building and Construction
Culinary students in the kitchen
Baking and Pastry Cookie Bake-Off Competition
Baking and Pastry Cookie Bake-Off Competition
Cosmetology students doing makeup
Allied Health
Pharmacy Tech class
Allied Health
Biomedical Sciences students in Anatomy and Physiology
Biomedical Sciences students in Anatomy and Physiology
Automotive
Culinary students in the kitchen
Milford Mill HBCU College Fair
Websites
Traitify: https://bcps.traitify.com/
MD CAPS (MHEC): https://mdcaps.mhec.state.md.us/MDCAPS/login.aspx?c=-8586295899786270826&ReturnUrl=/MDCAPS/int/FinAid
Schoology Access Codes
Elementary Counseling Curriculum: M4HSN-FCFN4
Secondary Counseling Curriculum: CFBV7-B6PCM
Threat Management: Q6RHK-WHHVC
College and Career Counseling: PFZD6-65N4V
Curriculum Updates: T7BM2-R8JSC
GSA Sponsors (LGBTQ+ resources): ZMBZ-4QXP-DKC89
Contact Information
Naviance Support: 1-866-337-0080 option 2 & support@naviance.com
Signup Genius Support: support@signupgenius.com
CPS email address: dhr.baltimorecountycps@maryland.gov
MHEC FAFSA Completion (MD CAPS): fafsa.mhec@maryland.gov