SCHOOL COUNSELORS: CHANGING LIVES AND BUILDING FUTURES
Director: Lynn C. Randle, MA
Phone: 908-352-7664, Ext. 8405
Email: LRandle@hillsidek12.org
Office Hours: 8:00AM - 4:00PM

Our Mission

The mission of the Hillside Public School's school counselors is to implement a proactive and comprehensive guidance program that fosters academic achievement, career awareness, personal growth and a positive self-image for all students within a safe and secure learning environment.

School counselors promote and enhance achievement using a comprehensive approach that ensures every that student receives guidance services. School counselors provide comprehensive counseling programs that incorporate prevention and intervention with continuous academic, career and personal/development activities that will prepare students for meaningful participation in a diverse, changing world. These activities include classroom guidance, small groups for skill mastery, individual counseling for students with specific needs and a variety of other proactive and innovative ways to support student performance.

School counselors implement a program based on the National Standards for School Counseling programs and the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model.

Counselors also provide resources to staff, students, families and others to ensure that a family friendly environment is established and ensure that students have access to a safe school climate necessary for academic and social/emotional growth.

The Counseling Department provides a number of programs and services to help students achieve success and develop life skills in three personal competency areas, academic success, career development and personal/social success.

School counselors utilize career development lessons and strategies to help students understand the relationship between personal qualities, education and training, and the world of work. Examples of these strategies are: career awareness and exploration, goal setting, high school graduation facts, and scholarship opportunities.

School counselors work with staff and community to provide support for all students, ensuring that they are safe and healthy. Promoting life skills are essential components which are helpful in developing the total individual's skills such as character education, conflict resolution, making friends, and providing alternatives to peer pressure and managing stress.

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