Welcome to

Student Services

Located in the Counseling Building:  K-25

748-0245 ext. 5393, 5394, 5395

When you're feeling confused, overwhelmed, stressed out, or just need to talk, we're here to help you.

Funded by grants (Reducing Alcohol Abuse in Poway, Tobacco Use Prevention and SLIP), our office is here to assist students and parents.

We offer services such as the following:

• Keep the Peace (Monday mornings during Prof. Growth time) – free food and drink to students who come to school early, in room K-1. This is sponsored by the Peer Counselors.  In addition to the food and drink, movies are shown (rated G) and free tutoring is available.

• Peer Counseling (70 students who help with new students, students needing someone to talk to, tutoring, conflict mediation).  Applications are available during the month of November for the following calendar year.  See link above for applications.

• Tobacco, drug and alcohol education (classroom presentations, referrals, cessation).  Information is also given at Friday detentions.

•  Support groups (with trained facilitators) meet weekly.  Topics of groups include anger management, sober support, tobacco cessation, gay/lesbian/bi, Latino, women's issues, family changes.  For more information, contact the Student Services staff.

•  Mentor Program – we match up students who are struggling academically with an older student or adult mentor.

• Grief Counseling – to help students understand and get through a difficult period in their lives.

•  GSA  (Gay-Straight Alliance) – a club honoring diversity and equality.  While not specifically sponsored by the Student Services Office, Traci Barker-Ball is a co-advisor.  This club meets on Tuesdays at lunch in room C-1.

•  SAVE (Students Against Violence Everywhere) – a club dedicated to equipping students with the skills to Prevent Violence, Manage Conflict and participate in Service Projects in the school and surrounding community.  SAVE meets on Wednesdays at lunch in room  K-6.  The advisor is Sandy Stromberg.

• MEChA - Kathleen Gibbs is the advisor of this club that meets Tuesdays at lunch.  This club's purpose is  to encourage more Latinos to enter and finish college.

• Poway High Leaders (PHL) - PHL meets on Tuesdays at lunch in K-6.  PHL is a group of students dedicated to not drinking alcohol and coming up with drug-free activities and media to help educate peers.

• Counseling Referrals – if a student and/or family needs help obtaining outside counseling, we give referrals to the Caring Connections Center, which provides free counseling services (through our grant).

• Character Education  – helps get messages such as trustworthiness, responsibility, respect, fairness, caring, and citizenship, to the student body. 

• Conflict Mediation - our staff and/or peer counselors are available to work with students having conflicts with others (peers, teachers, parents, etc.).

• PLUS (Peer Leaders Uniting Students) - the PLUS program is put on by peer counselors.  Its aim is to get students together who would not normally talk to each other and discuss issues on our campus.  It is an on-campus field trip that will be held on the following dates:  October 8th, November 5th, December 3rd, February 4th, April 14th.  These are all "late start" Mondays so that class time missed is minimal.  Each time PLUS is held there will be different participants (each person can only attend one time).  After students have attended PLUS, they will meeting bi-monthly to continue the work started during their PLUS day. 

• Camp Human-Kind - Camp Human-Kind is a 4-day retreat which will be held from March 13th-March 16th at Camp Cedar Glen in Julian.  This retreat is designed to further the work PLUS began and help students learn about themselves through the "isms" that often cause conflict (sexism, classism, heterosexism, ableism) in addition to a look at various religions, ethnic cultural groups and violence.

Last Updated:  04/18/08

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