Personal Counseling services are available to all Carondelet Students. The goal of these services is to support and to educate students in their personal development. The counselors address areas of personal concerns by listening, strategizing, and helping students to develop appropriate solutions and coping skills.

Group counseling is offered for these areas:

• Chronic illness
• Divorce
• Family addictions
• Freshman only group (for students arriving without peer support)
• Grief
• Students transferring to CHS from other high schools
• Stress management

Peer Counseling:

Trained senior peer counselors work with small groups of freshmen during the school year to help them in their adjustment to high school.

Crisis Hotline Numbers:

• Suicide and Crisis: 1-800-833-2900
• Grief Crisis: 1-800-837-1818
• Rape Crisis: 1-800-670-7273
• Runaway: 1-800-718-4357
• Youth Crisis: 1-800-843-5200

Recommended Teen Websites

• Grief: http://www.kara-grief.org/
• Teen Health and Wellness: http://www.teenhealthandwellness.com/ (CHS password required)
• Center for Young Women's Health: http://www.youngwomenshealth.org/
• Health Issues for Teens: http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/
• Support for Teens From Teens: http://www.onyourmind.net/
• Teen Issues: http://www.teen-matters.com/, http://www.teenesteem.com/
• Community Violence Solutions: www.teencvs.org

Recommended Reading

• Uncommon Sense for Parents of Teenagers, Michael Riera, Ph.D
• Staying Connected To Your Teenager, Michael Riera, Ph.D
• Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall, Anthony E. Wolf, PhD
• How to Talk so Teens Will Listen and How to Listen so Teens Will Talk, Faber and Mazlish
• Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years, Cobern and Treeger
• Parenting Teenagers by S.T.E.P, Don Dinkmeyer and Gary McKay
• Queen Bees and Wannabees, Rosalind Wiseman