School Counseling

Our mission is to provide a comprehensive school counseling program that facilitates each student's personal/social, academic and career development. Our mission supports all facets of the educational environment in all three domains of the American School Counselors Association Model; academic, personal/social and career awareness. The ultimate objective is to help students strengthen their unique skills and abilities and to arm them with the requisite skills necessary to participate in a global community as responsible citizens.

The Lodi Public School counselors believe:

• All students can learn and should be given the opportunity to do so;

• All students have dignity and worth and have the right to be served by a comprehensive school counseling program;

• Learning requires the active participation, mutual respect and individual accountability of students, teachers, staff, parents and community members;

• All students' ethnic, cultural, racial differences and special needs are considered in planning and implementing the school wide program;

And that the school counseling program should:

• Provide academic, career, personal and social development for every student;

• Be student-centered;

• Be data-driven. Data will be used in assessing the needs and effectiveness of the school counseling program and will drive future program development and evaluation;

And that all school counselors:

• Abide by the professional school counseling ethics as advocated by the American School Counselor Association; and

• Participate in professional development essential to maintain a quality school counseling program.

APPOINTMENT PROCEDURES:

Any student who is in crisis shall report directly to the School Counseling Office to see their counselor. Any student in need of an academic/post-secondary conference is encouraged to email their counselor in order to request an appointment.