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Welcome to the Churchill Jr. High Counseling Center Website!
Our Churchill Team is committed to providing a comprehensive school counseling program that supports every student's academic, social-emotional, and college and career readiness needs. Whether seeking guidance for academic planning, navigating life's challenges, or exploring future opportunities, we're here to help!
Throughout this website, you will find valuable resources for improving student success, supporting social and emotional well-being, preparing for high school, college, and more. We look forward to working with each of you to make this 2024-2025 school year a success!
- Your Churchill School Counseling Team
- Your Churchill School Counseling Team
Our Mission
Our Mission
Our mission is to prepare each student with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to become life-long learners, responsible citizens, and valued leaders in their homes, communities, and world. To this end, we endeavor to foster a school climate rooted in character, respect, and learning in which all students can realize their full potential in academic achievement, social-emotional and physical development, and preparation for college, careers, and life.
Our Vision
Our Vision
Connect. Belong. Achieve. Lead.
What We Believe
What We Believe
Every student can learn, and every student can succeed.
Every student should have access to and opportunity for a high-quality education.
Every student should graduate from high school prepared for postsecondary opportunities.
Every student should have access to a school counseling program.
Effective school counseling is a collaborative process involving school counselors, students, families, teachers, administrators, other school staff, and education stakeholders.
School counselors are leaders in the school, district, state, and nation.
School counseling programs promote and enhance student academic, career, and social/emotional outcomes.
Utah K-12 Comprehensive School Counseling Program (2024)
Building Resilience Through Responsibility & Self Discipline
Throughout the 2025-2026 school year, Churchill Jr. High is focused on helping all students cultivate lifelong resilience - the ability to bounce back from difficulties and use negative experiences as fuel for positive outcomes. Among the many ways our Churchill School Counseling Team has determined to aid in this effort is by providing students (and families too) with an array of engaging lessons and activities, learning experiences, and parent presentations - all of which pull from the concepts and skills presented in the WhyTry platform (visit whytry.org for more information).
Our school counseling team kicked off this year long effort with the Resilience Skills for Junior High and Beyond (link here) presentation. This presentation focuses on building students' foundational knowledge of resilience - what it means, why it is so important, and how it will benefit students in junior high, high school and beyond. Included among the many benefits of resilience are strengthened self-confidence, increased problem solving capabilities, effective coping skills, and emotional strength and stamina for overcoming life's challenges - just to name a few.
This November, Churchill students were introduced to yet another lesson in resilience - our Building Resilience Through Responsibility and Self Discipline presentation series (see left). The lessons in the series focus on helping students identify and manage the many "weights" and pressures in their lives. Key components include the role of self-discipline in facing and overcoming challenges, understanding how thoughts and choices influence stress, skills and strategies for developing resilience, and effective coping strategies. The lesson encourages responsibility, problem-solving, and perseverance by teaching students how to “lift” their emotional and social burdens in healthy, proactive ways. Students will participate in the 2nd part of this lesson series during the last week of November. We hope you will take a minute to preview this lesson, discuss it with your student, and then find ways to help him or her put these important concepts and skills into daily practice!
Churchill Jr High Debate Club
How excited we are to announce the start of our 2025-2026 Churchill Junior High Debate Club! Debate is a fantastic way for students to learn communication skills, build confidence, and connect with peers. The CJH Debate Club will be directed by Mrs. Emily Gale and select members of the Skyline High School Debate Team.
Skills gained through participation in the CJH Debate Club include:
Critical Thinking & Communication: Students will home skills in research, structuring arguments, and learning to speak both persuasively and confidently.
Connection: Opportunities to build new connections and friendships with peers who share similar interests.
Friendly Competition: Students will participate in school tournaments during the school day to test their skills in a fun and supportive environment.
Club Logistics
When: We will meet the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month.
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Our first Debate Club meeting of the year will be held this Thursday, October 23 at 3:00p.m. Please meet outside the School Counseling Center.
If your student is interested in sharpening their mind, finding their voice, or learning more about this awesome opportunity, please be sure to have them see Mrs. Gale. We are looking forward to a spectacular season!
Charger Strong
Charger Strong
Suicide Prevention Week
Suicide Prevention Week
This year's Charger Strong Suicide Prevention Week was one for the books. It was a week filled with kindness, community building, and valuable life-lessons for students and teachers alike. Many thanks to our amazing school counselor, Mrs. Michelle Tate, for making it all possible!
Throughout the week, students participated in a school-wide advisory lesson highlighting everyday acts of suicide prevention (i.e., friendship, empathy, and support). Students also enjoyed lunchtime activities, a SafeUT presentation, a rock painting project, and a Kindness Challenge aimed at spreading genuine messages of kindness and encouragement from one Churchill student to the next.
Students finished off the week with a one-of-a-kind assembly featuring Joe Tui’Ana, founder and CEO of the I Love You Bro Project. Joe's I Love You Bro Project resulted from the rare and unexpected experience he had saving the life of an individual considering suicide using these 4 simple words: “I Love You Bro” (news story here). Joe shared this experience with students and the important role they each play in helping to prevent suicide - being present, listening without judgement, being a genuine friend, and reaching out when someone needs help. What an assembly it was! We hope you will take a minute to ask your student about this incredible experience.
Dreams to Degrees
Dreams to Degrees
Utah College Application Week
Utah College Application Week
Churchill's Dreams to Degrees Utah College Application Week has finally arrived! It’s a week of themed spirit days, lunchtime activities, and college knowledge a plenty. Throughout the week we’ll explore college and career opportunities, college savings and scholarships, college certificates and degrees, and actionable steps students can begin taking today to turn their college dreams into future degrees. It’ll be an exciting week for one and all!
A college education is one of the best investments students can make for their future. It provides stability, job security, increased earning power, and more. Studies show that nearly 66% of all jobs require education and training beyond a high school diploma. This is one of the reasons our Churchill teachers and staff work so hard - they are preparing students for success in college, careers, and life!
Some of the highlights of our Utah College Application Week include:
School-Wide Dreams to Degrees Utah College Application Assembly (link to presentation)
Dreams to Degrees Advisory Lesson & Exploration Activities
Lunchtime Fun - College Jeopardy, College Bingo, College Walk, College & Career Matching, and more
A look into our teacher's past to learn about favorite college classes, experiences, dreams, & degrees
UCAW Kick-Off Message from Principal Hendricks
Churchill Jr High’s Dreams to Degrees Utah College Application Week will be one for the books. This week and beyond, we encourage all students to set their sights high, work hard, save and save some more, and do all they can now to turn big college dreams into big college degrees.
Resilience Skills for Life
Resilience Skills for Life
This school year, Churchill Jr. High is launching a school-wide effort to help students strengthen their resilience and self-efficacy—the belief in their ability to overcome challenges and succeed. Through a series of engaging lessons and activities led by our school counseling team, students will explore important social-emotional skills using the WhyTry program, a nationally recognized platform for building resilience in youth.
Our first classroom presentation (link here) kicks off this initiative and lays the foundation for continued growth in resilience, confidence, problem-solving, and emotional strength throughout the year. We are excited to partner with families in supporting students as they learn to face life’s challenges with courage, determination, and kindness!
Raising Resilient Kids
On Tuesday September 16, 2025, our school counseling team hosted Churchill's first Mix & Mingle Parent Presentation of the year. It was a morning of good food, great company, and sound strategies for cultivating life-long resilience skills in students. We hope you will take a minute to review our presentation and handout.
Our next Parent Mix & Mingle will be held on Tuesday, October 14 at 9:15 a.m. in the Churchill Cafeteria. Our focus for the event will be increasing student self-efficacy and our presenter will be Mrs. Emily Roberts, our incredible school social worker. We hope to see you there!
YouScience
This past week, our school counseling team spent some time presenting (view our presentation here) in the 8th grade College & Career Awareness classes. Our objective was to get students excited about using and exploring the YouScience platform.
YouScience helps students identify what they are naturally good at through a series of aptitude and career interest assessments (otherwise know as Brain Games). Results from these assessments provide students with personalized career matches and insights into educational paths that lead to success.
The motive behind YouScience is not about getting kids to choose a career right now, but rather, about opening their eyes to possibilities and guiding them to make informed choices as they plan for high school and beyond. As counselors, we feel confident that the early self-awareness and career exposure YouScience offers has the ability to boost student's confidence, motivation, and engagement in school. It's a win-win for one and all!
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