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School Counseling and Support

School Counseling Services

Student Services Coordinator

At TES, our Student Services Coordinator’s role encompasses a variety of responsibilities including School Counselor, School Social Worker, State Testing Coordinator, Homeless and Foster Care Liaison and more. Your collaboration is viewed as an essential component in helping us work together to support your child!

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Direct Services that your student may receive during the school day include:

  • Classroom lessons on social/emotional and postsecondary topics
  • Short-term individual counseling
  • Small group counseling or topics including coping skills, family changes, interpersonal communication skills, school transition, stress management, support for grief and loss, and more
  • Responding to crises and providing intervention and support for students experiencing or impacted by life-safety threats to themselves or others (you will always be notified in this circumstance)
  • Collaborating with families, physicians, behavioral health providers, and community stakeholders to best support individual needs of the student and family
  • Conducting parent training sessions and/or book studies on topics that support you in supporting them
  • Supporting families in finding longer-term mental health services in or outside of the school setting
  • Supervising a school-counselor-in-training from UNC who may also support your TES student(s)!

Other Services the Student Services Coordinator provides:

  • Coordinating lunch support for students (TES uses the federal Free/Reduced Lunch guidelines)
  • Coordinating McKinney Vento Support for students experiencing homelessness
  • Connecting families with others for transportation in our carpool
  • Working with administration on the master schedule and upper school student elective schedules
  • Serving on various leadership teams including Attendance, Crisis, Equity, High School Transition, MTSS, NC Peer-to-Peer, New Student/High School Transition, Student Council, and Student Support
  • Maintaining the school’s state mental health policy protocols and providing related trainings
  • Coordinating school-based therapy referrals and services that some TES students receive on campus

Mental Health Support Services

TES contracts with School-Based Therapy organization, Renaissance Wellness Services. This is paid for by the child’s insurance, held at school for 45 mins-1 hour, 1x per week. RWS currently accepts BCBS and Medicaid insurances.

TES also currently contracts with a grant-funded school-based therapist who is on site 3 days per week. Services from the School-Based Therapist are free and reserved for students who are uninsured, underinsured, or who have had difficulty accessing therapy services outside of the school setting.

Please contact our Student Services Coordinator for a referral to either of these school-based therapy services.

*In the event that your child already has a therapist outside of school but challenges are arising in the school setting, please let us know! We would love to collaborate with any provider to help incorporate any strategies for success at school as well.