Vocational Guidance Services history

Beers was institutionalized several times throughout his life and wrote of the deplorable conditions in a book entitled A Mind That Found Itself (1908). He advocated for better mental health facilities and reform in the treatment of mentally ill persons.

1909, Jesse B. Davis was considered the very first school counselor in the United States.

Furthermore, in 1913 the United States Department of Labor (DOL) was founded, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which had been part of the Department of the Interior, was moved into the DOL.

For example, the landmark Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 established secondary school vocational education training.

The Great Depression of the 1930's limited the amount of funding provided to counseling programs.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was established in 1933 to provide training and employment opportunity for unemployed youth, and the educational services of the CCC were supervised by the United States Department of Education.

Then, in 1935, the Works Progress Administration was established through federal legislation as an employment source for the millions of people out of work.

What did the George Dean Act of 1936 provide?

Finally, the B’nai B’rith Vocational Service Bureau was opened in 1938 in Washington, D.C., and local Jewish Vocational Services were established in 25 major United States cities.

The first edition of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (the official government occupational classification) was published in 1939.

The passage of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA, 1957) was a direct response to this.

In 1958 the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) was enacted, providing aid to education in the United States at all levels, public and private.

The work of C. Gilbert Wrenn, including his 1962 book The Counselor in a Changing World, brought to light the need for more cultural sensitivity on the part of school counselors.

KRUMBOLTZ, JOHN D. 1974. "An Accountability Model for Counselors." Personnel and Guidance Journal 52:639–646.

The educational and counseling needs of students with disabilities was addressed with the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975.

Finally, the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (NOICC) and the State Occupational Information Coordinating Committees were established by the Vocational Education Act Amendments of 1976.

Also, in 1984, a letter of intent to affiliate was filed with the new National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC). The National Certified Career Counselor credential became the first specialty certification area for NBCC.

In 1986, the name Vocational Guidance Service was adopted but our commitment to serving those in need remained steadfast.

Ken Hoyt addressed NCDA in 1988 and reviewed the progress that women and ethnic and racial minorities in the United States have made during the past 20 years.

Counselors started finding themselves as gatekeepers to Individualized Education Programs (IEP) and Student Study Teams (SST) as well as consultants to special education teachers, especially after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990.

The National Standards for Professional School Counselors was adopted by ASCA in 1997.

ISAACS, MADELYN L. ; GREENE, MARCI; and VALESKY, THOMAS. 1998. "Elementary Counselors and Inclusion: A Statewide Attitudinal Survey." Professional School Counseling 2:68–76.

MALLET, PASCAL, and PATY, BENJAMIN. 1999. "How French Counselors Treat School Violence: An Adult-Centered Approach." International Journal for the Advancement of Counseling 21:279–300.

GYSBERS, NORMAN C., and HENDERSON, PATRICIA. 2001. "Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Programs: A Rich History and a Bright Future." Professional School Counseling 4:246–256.

Gladding, S. T. (2004). Counseling: A comprehensive profession (5th ed.). Columbus: Pearson.

He became an intrical part in the development vocational guidance programs ( Pope,2009).

VGS celebrated its 125th Anniversary in 2015 and achieved its 17th consecutive accreditation from CARF International.

Americans needed to be prepared for the workforce and with that the role of the vocational counselor was seen as a necessity("Guidance and School Counseling",2019).