Clinician/Counselling Services

The Student Services Unit (SSU) offers clinical/counselling consultant supports to school clincians/counsellors, student teams, families, and schools.

The clinical/counselling team hold their permanent school clinician's certificate and often provide supervision for new clincians/counsellors working in Manitoba schools to assist them in meeting permanent professional certification. The SSU clinician/counselling may provide supervision in the areas of:

• School Counselling
• School Psychology
• School Social Work
• School Speech-Language Pathology

Information for Schools, Students and Families

In addition to direct supervision, the SSU clinician/counselling consultants also provide workshops on topics relevant to the school clinician role, consultative support to school teams working with students with special needs, support to school divisions regarding clinical/counselling services, participate on inter-sectoral initiatives, and are members of the Special Needs Funding Review Team.

For rural/northern school divisions with periodic reduced clinician supports, direct clinical service is available from the Student Services Unit on a student-by-student referral basis.

Please follow the links on the left to find out more information about a specific clinical/counselling area as well as contact information.

Links

• The Manitoba Education Rural and Northern Clinician Bursary
• The Professional Certification Unit – School Clinician Certification
  
• The Manitoba School Counsellors’ Association
  
• The Manitoba Association of Social Workers & The Manitoba Institute of Registered Social Workers
• The Manitoba Speech and Hearing Association
• The Manitoba Association of School Psychologists
• The Psychological Association of Manitoba
  

Legislation, Standards and Policies

• Appropriate Educational Programming Regulation 155/2005 ( 122 KB)
• Appropriate Educational Programming in Manitoba: Standards for Student Services ( 130 KB)
• Manitoba Pupil File Guidelines ( 221 KB)
  Revised January 2012
• Appropriate Educational Programming: A Handbook for Student Services

Contact

General Enquiries
Program and Student Services
Manitoba Education
Telephone: 204-945-7907
Toll Free in Manitoba: 1-800-282-8069, ext. 7907
Email: pssbinfo@gov.mb.ca