• Promoting positive attitudes among students toward self, family, peers, and community.

• Assisting students in learning how school performance relates to future opportunities

• Working collaboratively with students, parents, and teachers to identify and remove barriers to learning

• Supporting students by teaching skills for achieving success

• Helping students to recognize and make the best of their abilities

• Counseling with students individually and in groups

• Providing support during personal crisis

• Helping create a safe school environment where children can learn. 

• Working with students on attendance issues.

• Coordinating referrals to outside agencies.

• Helping design interventions to enhance student success. 

• Developing community partnerships to enhance student career awareness

• Helping teachers create a positive learning environment

• Helping students learn anger management, conflict resolution, and mediation skills

• Helping parents, teachers, administrations in learning how to meet the needs of all students

• "My parents are getting a divorce. I don't know what's going to happen."

• "I'm new here and I'm having trouble making friends."

• "I have a lot of difficulty dealing with my stepchild."

• "Fred scores high on standardized test but hardly makes passing grades in school."

• "Susie always tells me she doesn't have homework, but found out she isn't doing it."

• "I need some ideas for helping students to get along with each other."

• "Bill hasn't been himself lately. He seems to be preoccupied with something."

• "I have a bad temper and need to learn how to control it."

• "Mary has been absent from school an awful lot this year."

• "My dad gets so angry when he's been drinking."

Students at Andrews Elementary are resilient learners who are committed to make a positive contribution by becoming responsible and compassionate members of an ever-changing and diverse society.

The Andrews Counseling Program will nurture students to be successful by implementing an inclusive curriculum that works to support all students’ education in academic, career, and personal/social development in collaboration with the school community.