Elementary School Counselors provide…

• Developmental classroom guidance lessons focusing on:
  1. Understanding of self and others, coping strategies, peer relationships and effective social skills, communication, problem-solving, decision-making, conflict resolution and study skills, career awareness and substance abuse.
  2. Classroom management strategies.
  3. Proactive/preventive programming.
  4. Individual and small group counseling.
  5. Positive leadership, encouraging a safe, nurturing environment.
  6. Consultations with parents, staff and community agencies.

Elementary School Counselors will also help when…

• Social, emotional and behavioral issues interfere with academic success.
• Family or community crises impact students and staff.
• Parents need information and support with the challenging job of raising children.

Students meet with their elementary counselors by…

• Teacher or staff referral
• Self-referral
• Parent referral
• Peer referral
• Counselor initiated referral

EASD Elementary Counselors offer individual and small group experiences dealing with…

• Social Skills
• Study Skills
• Self-Esteem
• Conflict Resolution
• Family Changes
• Behavior Modification

Banana Splits: Banana Splits is a school based children’s group program for students who have experienced parental separation, divorce. etc. Some ways that the program helps in our school are as follows:

• to provide a safe place to express feelings
• to normalize feelings through sharing
• to train children in problem solving and coping skills
• to increase self-esteem through mutual help
• to support parents and school staff in working with Banana Splits kids
• to increase communication among children, parents and school

Some of the programs offered….

KPETS: Volunteer teams promote well-being by sharing the power of human-animal interactions. Some ways that KPETS helps in out school are as follows:

• Motivate adults and children in physical, occupational speech and cognitive therapy sessions.
• Support teachers who have reluctant learners and struggling readers.
• Encourage children to attend library programs so they can read to a companion animal.