School Counseling
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) PreK-12 School Counseling Program provides comprehensive counseling services to maximize students' academic achievement, career development, and social-emotional learning.
Our school counselors are vital members. Their fundamental role is to assist all students in academic achievement, personal/social development, and career development. There are approximately 280 counselors at °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵelementary, middle and high schools.
Through a comprehensive school counseling program, °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵcounselors provide a variety of services, including:
- Individual counseling
- Group counseling
- Classroom guidance
- Academic, college, and career counseling
- Assisting students in developing an academic plan
- Interpreting standardized test results
- Grief and crisis counseling
- Responding to and assisting with crises
- Developing confidential relationships with students
- Advocating for students
- Promoting and monitoring student success in a collaborative manner
- Helping students overcome barriers to learning
- Providing preventive and interventive strategies for student success
- Facilitating parent/teacher conferences
- Serving as a resource to students of available community opportunities
- Serving as a resource for school staff and parents
- Serving as a resource for community referrals
- Providing parent and community outreach
- Fostering a positive school environment by embracing and promoting diversity
Contact Us
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Sarah Plano
Elementary School Counseling Program Manager
980-343-0426
Tuere Dunton-Forbes
Middle School Counseling Program Manager
980-343-9449
Kristen Hodges
High School Counseling Program Manager
980-343-3726
Quick Links
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Student Wellness and Academic Support
°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵAcademics Department
Student Counseling Consent Forms (, )
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Program Overview
School Counseling is a comprehensive service that begins when students enter kindergarten and continue throughout their tenure as Charlotte-Mecklenburg School (CMS) students. Designed to facilitate academic success, development, decision-making, and adjustment, the school counseling curriculum is designed to be implemented collaboratively with school staff.
School counseling services revolve around the identified needs of the student population at each school and must be inclusive of all students. In addition, school counselors foster a positive school environment by embracing and promoting diversity.
School counselors advocate for all students' needs by providing developmentally appropriate guidance to students and support in removing barriers that adversely impact their achievement. In addition, credentialed school counselors share the responsibility of facilitating the support system needed to ensure that each student in °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵis equipped, academically and socially, to become productive members of society.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) believes that all students receive the benefits of a comprehensive school counseling program. School counselors are a vital link to students' academic, career, and personal/social development at all grade levels. In addition, credentialed school counselors ensure equity and access to program services so that every student is supported in achieving their full potential by collaborating with other staff and education programs.
School counselors at all levels provide support for students by offering classroom lessons, group counseling sessions, individual counseling sessions and grief/crisis support. In addition, counselors serve as a resource to students, parents and school staff of available community opportunities.
Counselors work collaboratively to ensure that all students graduate from high school college and are career-ready.
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Resources
Social Emotional/Mental Health Resources
- Social Emotional Learning
- °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵSchool-Based Mental Health
- Mental Health Crisis Resources
- Bullying Prevention
Academic/Career Resources