The Guidance Centre offers a wide range of guidance and counselling services to address the diverse needs of the school community, such as classroom-based education and individual guidance.  In order to provide the best possible support, we continually adapt our services and refer onwards in response to ever-changing needs.  Although the school guidance counselor provides information and collaborates with many different people, our first professional responsibility is to the needs of our students.  The guidance counsellor is a student-advocate.

1. Career / Post-Secondary

• Career Counselling — Providing general career guidance and personalized support to students making decisions relating to their future.
• Résumés and Cover Letters — Helping students develop résumé and cover letters for job application.
• Post-Secondary Education — Provide information, and material about post-secondary options, programs of study, and educational institutions. Work with students and post-secondary schools through information-seeking, the application process, and scholarship opportunities. 
• Scholarships, Awards, and Financial Aid — Provide information and resources on financial aid and external scholarships. Assist students in the pursuit of community-based scholarships and awards.

2. Education

• Classroom-Based Education — Linking guidance education with specific learning outcomes by providing instruction to prevent and intervene upon issues that may affect school success.
• Information and Resources — Providing students, parents, and teachers with information, resources, and support.

3. Academics

• Academic Accommodations — Supporting students who may be struggling to salvage credits or are requiring academic accommodations.
• Academic Counselling — Assisting students with the development of short-term and long-term academic goals.
• Special Credits - Supporting students who wish to pursue credits for activities outside of the traditional classroom, including Community Service Credit, Special Language Credit, Private Music Credit and Cadets.
• Course Timetabling — Helping students choose their courses based on goals.
• Distance Learning — Providing information for students interested in taking courses through distance education and facilitating independent study options.
• Graduation Requirements — Ensuring students are on-track for graduation through regular credit checks and counseling.
• New Registrations/Transfers — Supporting new and transfer students through the process of changing schools.
• Transition Planning — Planning for transitions and assisting students transferring from one education level to another.

4. Counselling (Solution-Focused)

Crisis Counselling — Supporting students when unplanned events and situations arise by helping them to address immediate and urgent issues.

Individual Counselling — Helping students to communicate their issues, understand their concerns, and develop an action-orientated and solution-focused plan.

Mediation — Helping two or more people resolve a dispute.

Referrals — Referring students to school division clinical staff, external agencies, or other professional services.

Small-Group Counselling — Addressing common needs or concerns in a group setting.

Student Advocacy — Advocating for students and teaching self-advocacy, responsibility taking, decision-making and appropriate independence.

Edsby

Several groups have been created on Edsby to provide direct information to students and parent/guardians.  These include the following:

Guidance Centre – News, events, and resources.

Post-Secondary – Career and education planning for “life after GHS”.

Scholarships & Awards – Community and external financial opportunities.

Volunteering & Employment – Opportunities for volunteerism and employment.

Getting in Touch

To accommodate the volume of needs, students and parents/guardians are encouraged to make an appointment:

Email:   shelly.dankochik@esd.ca (gr.9) rachelle.bauer@esd.ca (gr. 10) shalyn.noble@esd.ca (gr. 11 & 12)

Edsby message to either guidance counsellor

Phone:  (204) 642-8546

Message:  Main Office (Janique or Wendy)

- Ms. Bauer , Ms. Dankochik & Ms. Noble, School Guidance Counsellors