The document outlines the responsibilities of County Centers/Bucharest Centers for Resources and Educational Assistance (CJAP/CMBAP) and psycho-pedagogical assistance offices. CJAP/CMBAP provide information, advice, and guidance to students, parents, and teachers. They work to prevent behavioral issues, conduct psycho-pedagogical evaluations, offer career guidance, provide parent training, and support teachers. Psycho-pedagogical assistance offices within schools perform similar counseling, prevention, evaluation, and career guidance duties at the local level. School counselors are responsible for their office schedules, reporting activities, collaborating with school staff, and participating in school meetings and projects.

2. Atributiile CJAP/CMBAP si ale cabinetelor
de asistenta psihopedagogica
Art. 15 CJAP/CMBAP has the following responsibilities:
 a) it provides information, advice and guidance documentation for
kindergarten pupils/students, parents and teachers concerning
specific issues: self-awareness, adjustment of the students within the
school environment, adjustment of the school to the students’ needs,
the optimization of the school-students-parents relationship;
 b) it ensures, by the means of specific methods, procedures and
techniques, the prevention and mitigation of the factors that cause
behavioral disorders, risk behaviors or psychological discomfort;
 c) it provides psycho-pedagogical investigation of children and
students;
 d) it proposes and organizes career guidance programs for the
students within schools;
 e) it ensures counseling and training for parents;

3. f) it coordinates and supports the psycho-pedagogical
assistance offices and interschool offices from
undergraduate educational units;
g) it collaborates with the staff from local employment
agencies and professional training;
h) it supports and provides assistance and methodological
counseling of teachers;
i) it elaborates psycho-sociological studies concerning the
students’ options from the graduating classes related to
professional qualifications through vocational and
theoretical highschool education and through the
different types of education institutions within the system
and other types of study, concerning the identified needs;
j) the institutions are involved - with county school
inspectorates – in examining all the proposals of the
undergraduate educational units within the system and in
examining the offer of the tuition plan;

4. k) it monitors the internal or international projects/programs,
partnerships that are locally developed with education
authorities, local authorities, associations and foundations with
interests in the field of different issues, such as: counseling and
professional orientation;
l)by the help of their school counselor teachers, it monitors the
high dropout situations, the risks concerning drug
consumption, the behavioral disorders in pre-academic
educational institutions from the counties, institutions where,
due to some objective reasons, there could not function school
counselor offices;
m) it recommends the parents the consulting of other
institutions for matters not within its competence – speech
correction centers, experts committees, medical or
psychological clinics;

5. n) it coordinates and supports teachers in psycho-
pedagogical assistance in order to permanently
improve their activity, by current preparation and by
passing different exams;
o) it collaborates with speech corrections centers;
p) it collaborates with school mediators;
q) it provides counseling and psycho-pedagogical
support for children with special educational needs;
r) it organizes mutual assistance groups;
s) it coordinates projects and activities of individual
and group counseling of the students with deviant
behavior;

6. Art. 16
Psycho-pedagogical assistance offices and interschool
psycho-pedagogical assistance offices have the following
responsibilities:
a) they provide counseling – for the kindergarten pupils/
students, parents and teachers – on various issues:
knowledge and self-awareness, adjustment of the students
within the school environment, the adjustment of the
school to the students’ needs, the optimization of the
school-students-parents relationship;
b) it ensures, by the means of specific methods,
procedures and techniques, the prevention and mitigation
of the factors that cause behavioral disorders, risk
behaviors or psychological discomfort;
c) it provides psycho-pedagogical investigation of
children and students;
d) it proposes and organizes career guidance programs for
the students within the schools where they carry on their
activities;

7. e) they propose optional courses within the curricula based on
school’s decision related to the students’ personal development;
f) they provide counseling and training for parents;
g) it supports and provides assistance and methodological
counseling of teachers;
h) it elaborates psycho-pedagogical studies concerning the
students’ options form terminal classes related to professional
qualifications through vocational and secondary education;
i) ) it recommends to the parents the consulting of other
institutions for matters not within its competence – speech
centers, experts committees, medical or psychological clinics;
j) it collaborates with speech centers;
k) they collaborate with itinerant and other supportive teachers;
l) it collaborates with school mediators;
m) it provides counseling and psycho-pedagogical support for
children with special educational needs;
n) they collaborate with various institutions and ONG that
provide different services and perform activities on education

8. Art. 17
(1) The school counselor from the psycho-pedagogical
assistance offices has the following responsibilities within
the preschools where (s)/he develops his/her activity:
a) the settling, approval and posting of the working
schedules of the psycho-pedagogical assistance office;
b) the presentation – within the teachers’ reunion – of a
half-yearly activity report, containing information on: the
number of the children, students, parents, teachers who
received counseling and psycho-pedagogical assistance,
the improvement measures for solving the crisis
situations, the special situations and the proposed
measures in solving them, other types of information
requested by the educational unit;

9. c) the collaboration with the staff of the school in which
(s)/he develops his/her activity;
d) the participation in teaching councils, parents’
meetings and, where the situation imposes it, in other
activities organized by the educational unit;
e) organizing lectures for parents on specific topics;
f) the participation, at the school’s request, in various
projects and educational programs;
(2) The educational unit has the following obligations to
the school counselor from the school’s psycho-pedagogical
assistance office:
a) it provides the necessary space for the functioning in
the best conditions of the counseling and psycho-
pedagogical activities;
b) it provides the sanitation services and the necessary
equipment for the counseling and psycho-pedagogical
assistance office;
c) it ensures all the rights provided by legislation.

10. Art. 18
The school counselors that develop their activity
within the psycho-pedagogical assistance offices will
use the following documents: the activity plan,
activity register, psycho-pedagogical / counseling
sheet, the career guidance sheet and other documents
specific to counseling.

11. Art. 19
(1) The management staff’s responsibilities, those of
the auxiliary and non-auxiliary teaching staff
from the psycho-pedagogical assistance centers are
stipulated in the functioning and organizing regulation
and in the internal order regulation of CJAP/CMBAP,
as well as in the job description, being annually
monitored by CJRAE/CMBRAE.
(2) The job descriptions are annually approved by the
CJRAE director, respectively the CJRAE coordinator,
with the agreement of the administrative board of the
staff from the psycho-pedagogical assistance offices.

12. Webography
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ORDER 5555/2011
approving the Regulation on organization and
operation of Centres County / Bucharest
resources and educational assistance
Annex Regulation on organization and operation
of Centres County / Bucharest resources and
educational assistance