Azle ISD has a comprehensive school counseling program that includes:

• Guidance curriculum to help students develop their full educational potential, including the student's interests and career objectives;

• A responsive services component to intervene on behalf of any student whose immediate personal concerns or problems put the student's continued educational, career, personal, or social development at risk;

• An individual planning system to guide a student as the student plans, monitors, and manages the student's own educational, career, personal, and social development; and

• Systems to support the efforts of teachers, staff, parents, and other members of the community in promoting the educational, career, personal, and social development of students.

Azle ISD Mental Health Matters - Helpful Resources

Services Provided by Azle ISD Crisis Counselors

• Intervene with social/emotional issues at school including anxiety, stress, grief, trauma, and depression

• Assist with campus referrals for mental health intervention

• Respond immediately to students in crisis

• Complete suicide assessments and safety plans

• Offer solution-focused hope and guidance to help students work through difficult issues

• Provide community resources to students and parents including inpatient, outpatient, counseling, and residential treatment information

• Assist with connecting families to community resources

• Assist with students returning from mental health facilities

• Assist with threat assessments and safety plans as part of the threat assessment team

• Collaborate with parents, teachers, administrators, and staff

• Meet with students as needed for social-emotional support

Services NOT Provided by Azle ISD Crisis Counselors

• The crisis counselors are not therapists and do not diagnose mental health disorders or provide scheduled weekly counseling sessions.