Rudolph Gordon School Counseling Department

Welcome Gordon Gators!!

Rudolph Gordon School counselors are committed to helping your child with academic success skills, social-emotional awareness and regulation, and career readiness. We look forward to embracing the many changes ahead, and supporting our students, parents and teachers in the process. Please check our School Counselor website regularly for important information and updates. You can also find up-to-date school counseling information in your child's class or grade level newsletter. Go Gators!

Our Mission Statement
The mission of Rudolph Gordon's School Counseling Department is to encourage, support, and advocate for students as they pursue excellence in everything they do. We accomplish this by providing a comprehensive, developmental school counseling program aimed at teaching academic, career, and personal and social skills to all students. In order to achieve this, we strive to develop cooperative relationships with students, families, and the entire Rudolph Gordon staff.

Keeping you and our community healthy and safe, as well as maintaining mental well-being is important to us. Do you need extra support such as mental health counseling, housing assistance, etc.? See resources below for more information and/or visit our Community Resources page for more resources.

Mental Health Resource Guide for the Upstate of South Carolina – List provided by NAMI

Community Resource Guide for the Upstate of South Carolina - List provided by The Carolina Center for Behavioral Health

Parent Opt out School Climate Wellness Survey - SchooLinks.pdf

School climate & wellness survey

in October

Greenville County Schools is committed to ensuring that every student has a safe, supportive, and engaging learning environment. To help us understand how students experience their schools, we will be administering the School Climate Wellness Survey. This survey asks students about their experiences with teaching and learning, the school environment, safety, respect, student behavior, bullying, and family engagement. In addition, some questions serve as a wellness screening to help us understand how students are feeling and to identify where there may be signs of stress, anxiety, or other challenges that could affect their well-being. The information gathered will only be shared within Greenville County Schools and will help us identify areas of strength and areas where additional support may be needed so that we can continue to improve the overall climate and culture of our schools. The survey questions can be found to the right of this letter. Participation in the survey is optional. Students may also skip questions or stop at any time without penalty. Individual responses are not shared publicly and access is limited to designated staff. Only aggregate, nonidentifiable data may be shared. If you do not wish for your child to participate, sign and return this form to your child’s teacher.

Backpack Blessings

The RGS Backpack Blessings program is an optional weekend food assistance program. If you would like for your child to participate in the RGS Backpack Blessings program, please click on the backpack to fill out a form. Food will be delivered to classrooms every Friday to all students in the Backpack Blessings program. If your child recieved this last year, we have automatically added them to the list this year. Please email jmcnamara@greenville.k12.sc.us if you would like to remove them from the list or if you have questions about this program.

RGS School Counseling Program Components

Individual Counseling

Brief individual counseling is a personal and private conversation between a counselor and a student in which they work together on a problem or topic of interest. School counselors do not provide long-term individual counseling services. If long-term services are needed, school counselors can make a referral to a licensed mental health counselor.

Small Group Counseling

Small group counseling involves a counselor working with two or more students together. Group members have the opportunity to learn from each other.

School Counseling Classroom Lessons

School counseling classroom lessons offer the best opportunity to serve the larger numbers of students at one time in the areas of academic readiness, career development, and social-emotional learning.

Coordination

Coordination is an intervention and the process of managing various indirect services which benefits students. The school counselor is a liaison between school and the community.

Consultation

The school counselor as a consultant helps people to be more effective in working with others. Counselors consult with teachers, administration, and parents.

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