Welcome to the MCS Guidance Office!
Maranacook School Code: CEEB #200847
 Left: Shannon Bergeron, Gr. 11-12 CounselorRight: Anne Schmidt, Gr. 9-10 Counselor
Center: Val Simmons, Secretary
To ensure sufficient time with your counselor, please contact Val for an appointment.
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We provide counseling programs in three domains: academic achievement, career planning, and personal/social development. Our services and programs help students resolve emotional, social, or behavioral problems and help them develop a clearer focus or sense of direction. An effective counseling program is important to our school climate and a crucial element in improving student achievement and overall well-being.
THE ROLE OF MCHS SCHOOL COUNSELORS
Professional school counselors address the needs of students through the implementation of a comprehensive, standards-based, developmental school counseling program. MCHS counselors work with all students, including those who are considered at-risk and those with special needs. We are specialists in adolescent behavior and relationships and provide assistance to students through four primary interventions: counseling (individual and small group), large group guidance, consultation, and coordination.
Counseling is a confidential relationship, which the counselor conducts with students individually and in small groups to help them resolve or cope constructively with their problems and developmental concerns.
Large group guidance is a planned, developmental program of guidance activities designed to foster students' academic, career, and personal/social development. It is provided for all students through a collaborative effort by counselors and teachers.
Consultation is a collaborative partnership in which the counselor works with parents, teachers, administrators, health center specialists, social workers, visiting teachers, medical professionals, and community health personnel in order to plan and implement strategies to help students be successful at Maranacook.
Coordination is a leadership process in which the counselor helps organize, manage, and evaluate the school counseling program. The counselor assists parents in obtaining needed services for their children through a referral and follow-up process and serves as liaison between the school and community agencies so that they may collaborate in efforts to help students.
Above all, school counselors are student advocates who consult and collaborate with teachers, administrators, and families to help students be successful. School counselors are an integral part of all school efforts to insure a safe learning environment and safeguard the human rights of all members of the school community.
Professional school counselors meet the state certification/licensure standards and abide by state laws. To assure high quality practice, school counselors are committed to continued professional growth and personal development. We are proactively involved in professional organizations that foster and promote school counseling at the local, state, and national levels. We uphold the ethical and professional standards of these associations and promote the development of the school counseling profession.
Adapted in part from the ASCA Delegate Assembly, June 1999
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