Guidance and Counselling Steering Committee

Part Of: Board of Jewish Education fonds; Board of directors and executive committee series; Guidance and Counselling Steering Committee sub-series

Part Of: Board of Jewish Education fonds; Board of directors and executive committee series; Guidance and Counselling Steering Committee sub-series

Admin History/Bio: The BJE's guidance and counselling services for students began with a pilot project organized by the UJWF, Jewish Vocational Service (JVS), and Jewish Family and Child Services (JF&CS) in the mid- to late-1960s. JVS was then contracted to provide these services in some of the affiliated day schools. Studies of the program were carried out by the UJWF in the early 1970s, and again by its successor, the Toronto Jewish Congress (TJC) in the late 1970s; the second study was prompted by some schools starting their own student counselling programs, staffed by in-house personnel. The BJE's Guidance and Counselling Steering Committee (also known as the Guidance and Counselling Advisory Committee) -- a joint committee with representatives from the BJE and JVS -- met on an irregular basis during the 1970s to review the program's operations. Following the recommendations of the TJC study, the BJE Guidance and Counselling Steering Committee took on a more active role in supervising guidance serices during the 1980s.

Scope and Content: The sub-series documents the meetings of the Guidance and Counselling Steering Committee, and BJE's involvement with evaluations of the program. The records include memoranda, correspondence with schools and JVS, committee meeting minutes and reports.

Related Material: Records relating to the UJWF and TJC study committees and the original UJWF pilot project can be found in series 4, "Subject files."