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§ 6-18-1005. Student services program defined

AR Code § 6-18-1005 (2018) (N/A)
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(a) "Student services program" means a coordinated effort, which shall include, but is not limited to:

(1) Guidance and counseling services, which shall include, but are not limited to:

(A) The availability of individual and group counseling to all students;

(B) Orientation programs for new students at each level of education and for transferring students;

(C) Academic advisement for class selection by establishing academic goals in elementary, middle, and high school;

(D) Consultation with parents, faculty, and out-of-school agencies concerning student problems and needs;

(E) Utilization of student records and files;

(F) Interpretation of augmented, criterion-referenced, or norm-referenced assessments and dissemination of results to the school, students, parents, and community;

(G) The following up of early school dropouts and graduates;

(H) A school-initiated system of parental involvement;

(I) An organized system of informational resources on which to base educational and vocational decision making;

(J) Educational, academic assessment, and career counseling, including advising students on the national college assessments, workforce opportunities, and alternative programs that could provide successful high school completion and postsecondary opportunities for students;

(K) Coordinating administration of the Test for Adult Basic Education or a high school equivalency pretest to students by designating appropriate personnel, other than the school guidance counselor, to administer the tests;

(L) Classroom guidance, which shall be limited to forty-minute class sessions, not to exceed three (3) per day and not to exceed ten (10) per week; and

(M) Guidance in understanding the relationship between classroom performance and success in school;

(2) Psychological services, which shall include, but are not limited to, the following:

(A) Evaluation of students with learning or adjustment problems;

(B) Evaluation of students in exceptional child education programs;

(C) Consultation and counseling with parents, students, and school personnel to ensure that all students are ready to succeed and that all students are preparing for college and work;

(D) A system for the early identification of learning potential and factors that affect the child's educational performance;

(E) A system of liaison and referrals, with resources available outside the school; and

(F) Written policies that assure ethical procedures in psychological activities;

(3) Visiting teacher and school social work services, which shall include, but are not limited to, the following:

(A) Providing casework to assist in the prevention and remediation of problems of attendance, behavior, adjustment, and learning; and

(B) Serving as liaison between the home and school by making home visits and referring students and parents to appropriate school and community agencies for assistance;

(4) Career services, which shall include, but are not limited to, the dissemination of career education information, appropriate course-taking patterns, and the effect of taking more rigorous courses so that students are better prepared for college and work success;

(5) Group conflict resolution services, which shall include, but are not limited to, the following:

(A) Educational and social programs that help students develop skills enabling them to resolve differences and conflicts between groups;

(B) Programs designed to promote understanding, positive communication, and greater utilization of a race relations specialist or human relations specialist to assist in the development of intergroup skills; and

(C) Programs designed to prevent bullying;

(6) Health services, which shall include, but are not limited to, the following:

(A) Students with special health care needs, including the chronically ill, medically fragile, and technology-dependent, and students with other health impairments shall have individualized healthcare plans;

(B)

(i) Invasive medical procedures required by students and provided at the school shall be performed by trained, licensed personnel who are licensed to perform the task subject to § 17-87-102(10)(D) or other professional licensure statutes, unless permitted under § 17-87-103(10) and (11).

(ii) The regular classroom teacher shall not perform these tasks, except that public school employees may volunteer to be trained and administer glucagon to a student with type 1 diabetes in an emergency situation permitted under § 17-87-103(11); and

(C) Custodial health care services required by students under individualized health care plans shall be provided by trained school employees other than the regular classroom teachers; and

(7) The distribution of a suicide prevention public awareness program developed for distribution by the Arkansas Youth Suicide Prevention Task Force.

(b) School counselors shall spend at least seventy-five percent (75%) of work time each month during the school year providing direct counseling related to students and shall devote no more than twenty-five percent (25%) of work time each month during the school year to administrative activities provided that the activities relate to the provision of guidance services.

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§ 6-18-1005. Student services program defined