Counselors

• Academic Planning
• Organizational, study and test taking skills
• Academic support interventions
• Transition planning
• Post-secondary planning and the college application process
• Career planning
• Education in understanding self and others
• Coping strategies
• Peer relationships and effective social skills
• Communication, problem-solving, decision making and conflict resolution
• Multi-cultural/diversity awareness
• Crisis Intervention

Our mission is to support all students in recognizing their potential by providing a comprehensive school counseling program which includes academic, career/postsecondary and social emotional services. With an anti-racist lens, we strive to deliver equitable, personalized interventions based on students’ individual strengths and needs. In collaboration with community stakeholders, we help to create a safe, respectful, and responsible school climate, in which diversity and inclusion are paramount. 

The vision of Mission High School Counseling Department is that all students graduate as self-sufficient, self-advocating, productive members of our 21st century society, who are engaged in their communities, and are critical and analytical thinkers who value diversity.

Responsive Services

• Wellness Referrals
• SST Meetings
• Progress reports
• Conflict Mediation

Individual Student Planning

• Transcript Reviews
• Post-Secondary Exploration
• Credit Recovery
• Summer Programs

Systems Support

• After School Program
• ASAP
• College Center
• CCSF Partnership
• Job/Internship Assistance

Curriculum

• In-class counselor presentations twice a year
• Topics include: Academics, Personal/Social, College and Career
• Family workshops provided at evening events

• Self-referral
• Request of a counselor 
• Parent referral 
• Administrative referral
• Teacher or other staff referral  
• Referral by friend(s)