Children
Coping With Trauma
If you have children, or
know any children who have experienced trauma recently, please read this useful 4 page pamphlet in Adobe Acrobat format:
Helping Children Cope with
Trauma
(pdf 103 KB)
Student Services
All students at Chaminade College Preparatory Middle
School have access to the services offered by the Counseling
Department. They are seen in groups or individually at least
once a year. See Student
Support Groups. At registration parents give
written consent for their child to participate in the
counseling program.
John
Hopkins University Center for the
Advancement of Academically Talented Youth
John Hopkins
University Center
(pdf 16 kb)
Separate grade level counselors offer on-campus counseling
for students who might be experiencing difficulties with
academics or behavior, social problems, family problems,
including special needs, learning disabilities, and
adjustment to school in general. See
Counseling
Student Referrals for information on how students are
referred to the counseling programs.
The department is not disciplinary in nature.
The counselors work to support students.
Counseling is intended to offer safety and support for
those students who find themselves faced with difficulties,
minor or major, which keep them from succeeding as they would
like.
On a daily basis there is always coverage in the counseling
offices. Following is a calendar of our daily coverage for all grades:
Monday/Tuesday
Barbara Willick 6th
Sr. Carol Francis 6th
Sr. Noreen Arnold 6th
Sr. Veronica Jones 7th
Heather Eaton 7th
Sara Shenouda 7th
Cheryl Lovejoy 8th
Wednesday
Barbara Willick 6th
Sr. Carol Francis 6th
Sr. Noreen Arnold 6th
Sara Shenouda 7th
Heather Heaton 7th
Cheryl Lovejoy 8th
Thursday/Friday
Barbara Willick 6th
Sr. Carol Francis 6th
Heather Eaton 7th
Sara Shenouda 7th
Cheryl Lovejoy 7th
Parent Services
Chaminade’s Counseling Department also offers a variety
of forums to address parent interests:
STEP
(Systematic
Training for Effective Parenting) classes are offered two to three
times during the course of the school
year. See Counseling
News.
Special
Need Services
Chaminade is committed to accommodating students with special
needs in accordance with our Special
Needs Policy. To implement this policy the counseling
department offers:
Special Needs Support
Group for parents once a month. See
Counseling News.
A comprehensive survey of special needs is completed as a
part of the registration each Spring.
Faculty inservice training has included the videos: Accommodating the AD/HD
Student in Your Classroom, Attention, Memory and Language: The Keys to Learning,
and F.A.T. City.
Extended-time testing is available upon written request of the
parent accompanied by documentation for this need by an outside professional.
Faculty Liaison
The grade level counselors attend the grade level faculty team
meetings once in each six-day cycle. The counselors act as a consultant regarding problem issues that teachers observe in
their students. They also act as a liaison among the parent,
student, and teacher when it is helpful for the solution of a
given problem. The counselors are also available to the
individual teachers as consultants regarding individual students
about whom they may be concerned. The counselor provides helpful
techniques for teachers of students with special needs and offers
inservices as appropriate.
