This article describes the transformation of a school counseling specialization, the importance of school counselors focusing on helping all students tap their learning power, and how a university-community collaboration resulted in a counseling practicum that serves as a core, contextual experience for school counselors-in-training. This article spotlights school counselors as participatory leaders and depicts the initial steps taken to orient school counselors-in-training to the importance of collaboration through their participation in a university-community After-School Clinic in an urban school district. The article begins by orienting readers to the counselor education program and changes taking place within the school counseling specialization at Portland State University (PSU), followed by an explanation that underscores the importance that learning and hope have in guiding school counselors-in-training. The article then shifts to how the university-community collaboration with a local school district embodies the university's motto, "Let Knowledge Serve the City." The article concludes by describing the After-School Clinic and a counselor-in-training's case example.