How Counselors Support Students
Our counselors help with personal and academic concerns, course registration and college applications. As student advocates, they support the transition from adolescence to young adulthood in four areas:
Academic success: Resources, vocational skills, college preparation, tutoring coordination and consultations.
Life after high school: College and career planning based on students’ evolving interests and strengths.
Social and emotional growth: Support with life issues, crisis intervention, peer relationships, conflict resolution and decision-making, along with community-resource information.
National testing: Preparation for national tests.
Confidentiality
Counselors respect students’ privacy and the rights and responsibilities of parents and guardians. They work to build cooperative relationships with students and families.
Counselors must inform parents or guardians when information may jeopardize a student’s health, safety or welfare, even if the student objects. Contact your student’s counselor with questions about confidentiality or counseling services.
Refusing Counseling Services
Parents or guardians may refuse counseling services for their child by submitting a letter to the counselor. Families must renew that request when the student’s home school changes.
A refusal does not exclude meetings about scheduling, academics, college and career advising, or the classroom curricular component.