1. Show Me The Money Using Perkins Funding for Direct School Counseling
and Guidance Services
Erica Harris, Advisement Specialist, ODCTE
Tommi Leach, Academic Coordinator, ODCTE

2. Standards for Accreditation for Oklahoma Schools
Standard VI Student Services
OAC 210: (c) 4 Counseling and guidance services shall be coordinated and shall work cooperatively with other school staff, community resources, and other educational entities.
Additional Standards for
CareerTech/ Comprehensive Secondary Schools
OAC 210: (a) (3) The technology center guidance staff coordinates services with guidance and counseling staff from partner schools, higher education institutions, and other agencies through planned informational meetings, correspondence, and /or other communications.
(c) The sending school guidance program shall complement and coordinate with those services available in the technology center counseling, assessment, staff consulting, educational and occupational planning, and follow-up activities.

3. Carl Perkins Legislation
Carl Perkins Act of 1984
Amendments in 1990
Reauthorized in 1998
Reauthorized in 2006
Passed House of Rep. in 2016
Passed House of Rep. with a few changes in May 2017

4. What is Carl Perkins Funding?
Allocation to the State
15% State Leadership and Administration
85% Local
15 million and some change flow to state of Oklahoma
Allocation to Local Recipients
-84% Secondary
-16% Postsecondary

5. Distribution of Perkins Funds
Basic Grant – 75%
Secondary School Districts
Technology Centers (secondary)
Postsecondary (collegiate & tech centers)
Supplemental Grants – 10%

6. You get a payday…

7. Local Plans Professional development
Career guidance and academic counseling
describe how career guidance and academic counseling will be provided to career and technical education students, including linkages to future education and training opportunities;
Community awareness strategies
Teacher recruitment

8. Consortiums
Representatives from each school meet with intention to determine goals of the Perkins application.
Team determines the local student and industry needs within the consortium and then leverages the money to meet those needs.

9. Local Control and Planning
Have you ever seen your local application?
What does your local application say about the guidance and counseling services offered to students?
How do you think your school counseling program should be involved in the planning?

10. Resources to Leverage Carl Perkins Supplemental Grants
Career Development
Disabilities Services
Recruiting Students to Non-Traditional Careers
High Growth and Emerging Technologies
Gateway to Technology

11. Let’s Brainstorm What do your students need?
How do you know what your students need?
What intervention, initiative or activity could be done to address those needs?
How will you know that your intervention worked? (Hint: DATA)

12. A little extra…

13. Supplemental Grants – 10%
Who- Any school or consortium that receives Carl Perkins funding
What- Your innovative ideas for 7th -12th grade
When- Check each spring – get your user name and password now and start making plans
How- Complete application

14. Remember
Your school cannot use this grant money to supplant services your school already has in place.
Once you receive the grant and services are in place, you should be able to sustain the work without the grant money.

15. Previous Grants - Highlights
Career Development
Ipads/Surfaces with charging cart for school counselors to use OKCareerGuide.org with students, and track services through the school counseling program
Purchased the National Student Clearing House student tracker program to gain cohort follow-up data on students postsecondary transitions and completions
Training day for OK Career Guide. Grant funded professional development and paid for substitutes. All teachers attended training on career development tool that could be used throughout core and elective subjects
Teacher As Advisors training/professional development
Galaxy – Elementary component is Fall 2016
Journey components will stay the same, smoother format to access them.
Throughout the fall, additional enhancements to:
eProfile for Navigator- Oct
Ed Plans -Nov
CTE Reports- Nov
Parents Portal- Nov
Test Prep packages through Peterson’s- Sept
Connect 2 Business – Dec
Link 2 College – Dec
All site in Spanish in Feb (this will include assessments)

16. Previous Grants - Highlights
Non-Traditional Careers
Non-traditional speaker forum presented at mother/daughter tea
Videos highlighting students in non-traditional careers
Disability Services - Transition
Stipend for Transition Coordinator
Lift for bus
Computers to develop skills for transitioning
Transition Coordinator from community college

17. Web Resources
Federal Legislation Assistance – Carl Perkins
Career and Academic Connections
Advance CTE

18. Contact us: Erica Harris, Advisement Specialist 405 743-5164
Tommi Leach, Academic Coordinator