Manitoba's Frontier School Division hired 18 local native adults to work as school counselors to be trained for over 24 months in a Competency Based Training and Education Program. The program, based on individual and work needs, combined classroom and on-the-job training in a 5-step process: job description, task definition, knowledge and skill definition, training plan development, and evaluation. Materials for the program include the job description, which details the many job functions of each of nine areas of responsibility of school counselors: relationship building and teamwork, professional ethics, professional development, student developmental work, career education and counseling, counseling, resources and referrals, community school education, and administration. The program materials also use a task list and list of required knowledge and skills, based on the job functions. A proposed training plan is also provided, giving dates for on-the-job and classroom training for each of 12 learning modules and their related tasks. For each module, the program materials give the time, title, training dates, expected outcomes, and objectives, along with evaluation forms and information about conducting appraisal interviews. (SB)