The Salk Middle School Guidance Department aligns with the American School Counseling Association National Model, focusing on three domains: academic, career, and personal/social development. We abide by the ASCA model’s system of delivery of services which includes the following:

Direct Student Services

• School Counseling Core Curriculum

• Individual Student Planning

• Responsive Services

• Indirect Student Services

Salk Middle School Counselors:

• Facilitate, coordinate and manage 504 process

• Refer families to community services

• Offer substance use/abuse prevention & referral

• Support needs of homeless students

• Provide individual and whole school crisis intervention

• Teach self-awareness, self-management and emotional regulation skills

• Teach decision making and relationship skills

• Collaborate with parents/guardians

• Provide individual and group counseling

• Facilitate meetings, conferences and mediations between all stakeholders

• Provide intervention support for student truancy

• Perform classroom observations to assess student behavior and provide recommendations for intervention plans

• Recognize mental health needs and provide referral resources

• Refer families and/or child for legal services and facilitate protective services

• Facilitate transitions between grade levels and program placements