This article highlights the effectiveness and importance of group counseling in efforts to reach all students in public high schools. The article also identifies the need for a paradigm shift in the delivery methods used with inner-city youth. This is an important addition to the professional literature because it encourages the use of data to guide counselors toward interventions that will increase the efficiency of guidance programs and clearly link counseling with the mission and goals of the education community. The EGAS model utilizes some of the traditional strategies and structures from the group counseling movement in the 1960s and '70s, such as the use of a co-leader, establishing a set number of meetings, setting individual objectives, and building group cohesion and support. However, the model goes beyond the traditional approach by building in a multicultural approach that is sensitive to the environmental elements that impact students living in urban settings and uses the strengths of an unstructured process group with clearly defined goals to develop individual student success.