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School counselors provide short-term, solution-focused counseling to help students overcome barriers to learning and support their academic, college and career, and social-emotional development. Counseling may address concerns such as stress, anxiety, peer relationships, grief, conflict resolution, adjusting to life changes, or other challenges affecting a student's success at school. In Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, school counseling is limited to six sessions per presenting concern.
School counselors do not provide long-term mental health therapy. Students who require ongoing or more intensive mental health services will be referred to appropriate community providers. Counseling as a Related Service through an IEP or Section 504 Plan is provided by CMS school social workers.
School Counseling Services
Services Provided by School Counselors
Course planning
College Preparation
Career exploration
Crisis intervention
Consultation with teachers, parents, and administrators
Referrals to Mental Health Services
*Please not that School Counselors do not provide Therapy or Mental Health Counseling.
School Counseling Purpose
East Meck has seven full-time school counselors. The purposes of the counseling program are as follows:
To advocate for all students and to ensure that each student is maximizing their potential for success.
To help students feel "at home" in school.
To enable students to know themselves better by discovering their strengths and limitations.
To help in the choice of study, to prepare students for college, occupational training, or employment.
To inform students and teachers of requirements for college and for entering various professions, trades, and industries.
To provide help with personal problems, as well as academic concerns.
School Counseling Program
Philosophy
We believe that all students have the potential to become productive members of society. We also believe that it is our job (our obligation) as educators to help students realize their skills and develop these skills. Students should be given every opportunity to discover and enhance their talents. When students enjoy what they are doing (learning), then they will learn more effectively. Education is the most valuable and most influential gift that we can offer the students of our community, and we look forward to assisting in this process accordingly!
Mission Statement
To be positive role models for students, teaching them vicariously as well as directly.
To provide and maintain a safe, structured environment for students to feel safe and to learn.
To not simply graduate all of our students, but to provide them with a viable plan for the future.
To instill a love of learning in our students so that they will become lifelong learners.
To develop Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships with our students and to make learning personal
Vision Statement
Personal development
Academic development
Career development
Mental Health Counseling
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