Through a school-industry-community council strategies and procedures were developed and tested to identify the most cost effective method to provide selected students with opportunities for nontraditional counseling training and to determine the effect it had on career goal choices. The American College Testing (ACT) Career Planning Program test series was administered to 235 tenth grade students at one high school. Sets of ten matched pairs of students were chosen, the groups ranging from high to low ability. Each was then broken into a control group and a test group. Students in the test group became involved in various activities aimed at strengthening their values and attitudes toward self and work, strengthening occupational awareness, or building specific vocational skills. Geared to student needs and interests activities were pursued individually and in small groups under the direction of a vocational guidance paraprofessional. Findings of the first year included the following: (1) An analysis of variance on four measures revealed that each ability level was statistically different from the other two and that there was no systematic sex bias between levels; (2) ACT tests showed no significant differences between test and control groups on any measures; (3) the advisory committee was not effective to an acceptable degree (too large for the scope of the project), and (4) starting delay caused problems in properly training the paraprofessional. (JT)