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- Title
The Boston Connects Program: Promoting Learning and Healthy Development.
- Authors
Walsh, Mary E.; Kenny, Maureen E.; Wieneke, Kristin M.; Harrington, Kara R.
- Abstract
The Boston Connects Program is a school-community-university partnership in which school counselors play a pivotal role in coordinating a comprehensive system of preventive services and student supports. The program is designed to promote healthy academic, social-emotional, and physical development for all children; reduce barriers to academic learning; and enhance the health-promoting and growth-fostering characteristics of the urban elementary school environment (Walsh, Barrett, & DePaul, 2007). Consistent with the ASCA National Model® (American School Counselor Association, 2005), the Boston Connects approach is programmatic, collaborative, preventive, and data-driven, and it supports the development of all children. This article describes the role of the school counselor in coordinating a comprehensive array of strengths-based supportive and developmental interventions and provides evidence to support the benefits of this approach.
- Subjects
PROMOTION (School); ACADEMIC achievement; STUDENT development; EDUCATIONAL programs; PARTNERSHIPS in education; SCHOOL improvement programs
- Publication
Professional School Counseling, 2008, Vol 12, Issue 2, p166
- ISSN
1096-2409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5330/PSC.n.2010-12.166