• Helps students with academic, career, personal/social concerns and any other problems that may occur.

• Teach guidance lessons which are preventative in design and deal with matters of character and building skills to support character building.

• Collaborate with parents, teachers and administration and offer information on resources.

• Provides support to the school community

• Campus PAL Coordinator

• RTI Committee Member

• Campus Homeless Liaison 

• Backpack Buddy Coordinator

• Self-Referral

• Teacher, Administrator or Staff Referral

• Parent Referral

• Peer Referral

• Counselor Observation

Emergency Referrals that Require Immediate Attention:

• Suspected evidence of child abuse, physical or mental (although I will follow up with this student, IF YOU BELIEVE CHILD ABUSE IS OCCURRING, YOU ARE REQUIRED BY LAW TO REPORT TO CPS.)

CPS Hotline: (800)252-5400

CPS Reporting Website

• Signs of self-injury

• Threats to harm self or others

• A child who cries or gets sick daily

• A child who becomes unable to function in a normal way

• Any behavior change in a child that is sudden and unusual

• A child undergoing a traumatic family experience

Other Referral Topics include, but are not limited to…

*Academics                                       * Loneliness

*Anxiety                                             * Organizational Skills           

*Anger                                                * Peer Relationships

*Coping Skills                                    * Stress

*Goal Setting                                     * Social skills              

*Grief and Loss                                 * Test-Taking     

*Divorce and Separation                 * Underachievement              

*Family                                              

*Impulse Control