Counseling Program Mission and Belief Statements

Mission Statement

The mission of the Trask Middle School's school counseling program is to deliver a systematic, comprehensive counseling program that encourages all students to maximize their potential in the areas of academic, career, and personal/social development. 

Belief Statements

In light of the Trask Middle School Counselors’ commitment to helping students enjoy school and feel safe and in an effort to help them succeed, they set forth the following beliefs:

  Trask Middle School’s Professional School Counselors believe:

·     In developmental, preventative, and proactive education

·     In applying knowledge of the latest research-based interventions fitting individual students’ needs

·     In abiding by ethical and moral standards as outlined by the American School Counselor Association

·     In providing all students access to a comprehensive school counseling program based on developmental needs and as data analyzed to determine appropriate interventions

·     In providing a program that emphasizes academic, personal/social, and career development as outlined by the American School Counselors Association and North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Standard Course of Study

·     In maintaining an awareness of their own social and cultural backgrounds and how their experiences influence their attitudes, values, and biases about psychological processes

·     In the importance of how race, culture, physical and mental constitution and other areas of diversity affect personality formation and choices.  The counselors understand that each can be indicators of strengths and difficulties in academic, career, and personal/social development.

Trask Middle School’s Professional School Counselors believe students:

·     Deserve to feel safe and welcomed at Trask Middle School

·     Should benefit from various support services provided by Trask Middle School’s Counselors

Trask Middle School’s Professional School Counselors believe staff members:

·     Are their partners in facilitating guidance lessons

·     Should provide flexibility in hosting Trask Middle School’s counselors when students would benefit from counseling, vocational, and academic support services

Emma B. Trask Middle School is name for Emma Borneman Trask, a lifelong supporter of public education. The yellow brick building was completed in the summer of 1976 and was ready for occupancy that same fall. The school opened as a seventh and eighth grade center with an enrollment of 744 students under the administration of James L. Johnson, Principal.

Emma B. Trask School was dedicated on March 27, 1977, with Principal James L. Johnson presiding. Trask's second year was interrupted by a fire on February 5, 1978. The administrative area and the media center were completely destroyed, and smoke and water damage was extensive to surrounding classrooms. Students and teachers, bussed to other schools, attended classes the next day.

Within two weeks, enough repairs were made to enable all students and teachers to return to Trask. With the administration, faculty, students, and parents working together, we made it through the year.

 The school year 1978-79 saw Trask become a junior high school with the addition of the ninth grade. that year was known as the "Year of the Phoenix" as Trask rose form the ashes, a newer and better school. Final repairs were completed. With their second beginning, Trask students, faculty, and administration became even more committed to establishing worthwhile traditions.

Mrs. Trask's History - 

When Emma Gertrude Borneman was born on 4 March 1884, in Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, United States, her father, Johann Christian Bornemann, was 32 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth McEachern, was 28. She married George Washington Trask on 6 September 1899, in New Hanover, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Federal Point Township, New Hanover, North Carolina, United States in 1900 and Cape Fear Township, New Hanover, North Carolina, United States for about 30 years. She died on 7 November 1962, in Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, United States. 

Reference:

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/9V44-XV4/emma-gertrude-borneman-1884-1962