Support Services

The Lower School Counseling Program is developmentally, proactively based.

• Classroom guidance — by counselor. Programs are offered on a developmentally appropriate basis and include:
  • internet safety,
  • personal safety,
  • healthy choices (drug, alcohol and tobacco prevention),
  • listening skills,
  • making and keeping friends,
  • conflict resolution,
  • problem solving skills,
  • empathy,
  • respect and peer pressure refusal skills.
• Small group counseling — On an “as needed” basis, is problem-centered/growth-centered.
• Counseling individual students — To help guide students toward productive action at school and at home and assist students in problem solving.
• Consultation — Working with teachers, parents, administrators and other educational specialists.