The purpose of the Phoenix Elementary School District's Competency-Based Guidance Program is to provide middle-school students with a developmental and proactive guidance program. The competencies emphasize positive coping skills in the Educational, Career, and Personal/Social Domains. The competencies represent knowledge, attitudes, and skills that can be transferred from guided learning situations to productive, real-life situations. This Competency-Based Guidance Program will provide the framework to build a unique guidance project that is responsive to local student needs, and deliver direct counseling services within that framework. At the very heart of the entire educational system is the need for a guidance and counseling program. It is the consensus of guidance and counseling professionals that guidance be developmentally based and grounded solidly in competencies that demonstrate how students are impacted and how the guidance program makes a difference. (This document describes the 12 program elements: mission statement, philosophy, conceptual model, goals, student competencies, management system, counselor agreement, needs data, school plan, student monitoring, advisory council, and master calendar. A glossary is included.) (Author/ABL)