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Secondary School Counseling Committee


The Secondary School Counseling (SSC) Committee seeks to encourage Association membership and foster professional development opportunities specifically for secondary school counselors including public, parochial, and independent school counselors, and those who counsel students to post-secondary education. Members of this committee will collaborate with other standing committees from the lens of school counselors in order to support their work.

The Secondary School Counseling Committee will pursue the following initiatives:

  1. Conduct a college tour, sometimes in conjunction with annual conference.
  2. Encourage school counseling graduate and certification programs to incorporate proficient college counseling education into their curricula.
  3. Outreach to underrepresented school districts promoting the benefits of PACAC membership within school counseling departments.
  4. Build partnerships with the Pennsylvania School Counseling Association (PSCA) and county affiliates.
  5. Innovate and implement new initiatives to actively recruit and retain new counselors to PACAC.

 Goal for the year:

  • Provide presentations to counselor education programs (College Counseling 101, Ethics in Secondary Schools)
  • Increase membership of graduate students
  • Increase membership of school counselors
  • Work with the Membership committee to ensure a wide breadth of engagement is provided to postsecondary entities
  • Engage with counselor educators to share information
  • Celebrate National School Counseling Week February 2026
  • Create a sense of community for school counselors with PACAC
    • Provide affinity opportunities at the 2026 Conference:
      • invitations to sit together during meals
      • identify a sponsor for a school counselor reception

Subcommittees:

  • College Tour
  • College Counseling Education Program
  • Grad School Outreach
  • Urban School Outreach
  • Rural School Outreach
  • Membership
  • National School Counseling Week
  • PACER - Secondary School Counselor Corner

Chairperson: Dr. Jennifer Kirk, Upper St. Clair High School
Contact:  [email protected]