Attendance and Counselling Services

Attendance and counselling services promote student success through regular school attendance and mental health counselling. These services are available to students who are at risk or in crisis during their school years. Counsellors provide a broad range of services in the schools including the following:

Mental Health Clinicians

• Assess and treat school refusal behaviours
• Identify attendance barriers
• Develop return-to-school and transition-to-work plans
• Develop temporary alternatives to school programs (e.g. Supervised Alternative Learning (SAL))
• Provide counselling services for grief, loss, separation and divorce, self-harm and substance abuse
• Intervention plans to address suicide risk, crisis, trauma and critical school incidents
• Participation on multi-discipline teams that provide direct and integrated behaviour and mental health intervention