Guidance Information - Audubon Community Schools

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Audubon CSD Mission Statement

Our MISSION is to provide a quality education in a positive, equitable, and respectful environment that encourages and prepares all students to become lifelong learners and responsible members of a rapidly changing society. Educate. Motivate. Inspire.

K-12 Counseling Program Mission Statement

The MISSION of the Audubon Community School District Counseling Program is to support all students through a comprehensive and developmental curriculum; addressing the career, academic, and personal/social domains. Furthermore, the counseling program will provide equal opportunity for all students to become effective life long learners.

The Audubon CSD K-12 Counseling Program understands that:

    - All students have dignity and worth and have the right to be served by a
      comprehensive school counseling program.
    - All students receive services regardless of their ethnicity, cultural background, race,
        sexual orientation or special programs.
    - All students have a capacity to learn and be supported academically.
    - Services provided support the district's students, families, staff and administration
        through programming planned and coordinated by state-certified school
        counselors.

Courtney Walter, MS, CRC
7-12 School Counselor, 504 Coordinator

Audubon School Counseling Program

The goal of the Audubon MS-HS School Counseling Program is to provide a comprehensive developmental counseling program for all students. This would include direct consultation with teachers, staff and parents to enhance their effectiveness in helping students. The means by which it will be implemented will include, but is not limited to, the following:

1. Direct counseling support with students through responsive services in coordination with other school community educational programs.

2. Support counseling in response to requested needs through personal or parental request, AEA staff, or other relevant professionals.

3. Career and Classroom guidance as it pertains to the student's individual needs and goals.

All of the above may utilize a combination of individual, small and large group activities to better enable the student to achieve his/her desired goal.

Confidentiality

When utilizing guidance and counseling services, there are strict guidelines concerning confidentiality. The only individuals who will have access to information shared by a student, will be those individuals specifically granted permission from the student themselves.

Professional counselors are bound by the Code of Ethics of the American Counseling Association. The following are the only exceptions under which individuals, other than those specifically granted permission, would have access to any pertinent information:

1. Safety: In situations where there is danger to the student or others, the appropriate measures must be taken to prevent the possibility of injury. This may include disclosure of specific information that would be relevant to the situation.
2. Consultation: In situations where input is needed from other qualified professionals, specific and relevant information may be disclosed to such.

At all times, great care will be taken to insure each student's confidentiality.

Audubon School Counseling Program

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