WTH Just Happened to School Counseling in Florida??!!?

School for School Counselors Podcast · Apr 17, 2023 · 35m

In this episode, I HOPE I AM WRONG about what appears to be a systematic dismantling of school counselors in Florida. Less than a month ago, the Florida First Lady announced an initiative to "reframe mental health education with a focus on resiliency" and teach students to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.As part of this initiative, Florida is inviting literally anyone off the street to take a short "counseling course," go into schools, and serve as unqualified "coaches" in lieu of students accessing school counselors."Coaching" isn't counseling. And if that wasn't bad enough- there's…