Mission and Vision

Our mission is to provide a comprehensive, trauma-informed counseling program. By affirming our students’ intersecting identities, we are able to provide culturally-relevant academic, career, and socio-emotional services. We acknowledge the impact that ongoing social factors, such as systemic racism and COVID-19, have on our students’ physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Our counseling program is dedicated to the healing of our community.

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Our vision is for all members of our diverse student body to graduate having both recognized their multidimensional identities and become independent thinkers. Students will also have learned skills for building positive relationships and for advocating for themselves and their communities.

School Counselor's Role

The counselor works in collaboration with school staff, administrators, teachers, parents, and community members to be an advocate for students in order to maximize student potential and academic achievement, so that students may be healthy and productive members of society. The school counselor assumes a leadership role in the development of an appropriate program of guidance for the school site. Services offered include:

• Collaboration and consultation with students, teachers, families, and other providers to identify strategies to help student(s) in areas of academics, behavior, and social-emotional well-being.

• Class schedule; scheduling matters

• Developing your 4-year graduation plan

• Dual Enrollment Courses - taking classes at City College to earn credits for high school and college

• SAT/ACT testing information

• Finding jobs and internship opportunities

• Problem-solving around challenging classes

• Social-emotional support

• Provides crisis support with school team

• Connections to community-based organizations (i.e. YMCA, After-school program)

• Credit recovery classes to make up D's or F's

Meet Your Counseling Team

Counseling Intern