Guidance Services

It is the desire of the Guidance Team to aid every student who leaves FCHS after completion of a program of study to either have an employable skill and/or the academic preparation for post-secondary education.

The Guidance Team maintains up-to-date information on continued education and careers and vocational trends through the use of videos, brochures, catalogues, and kits. The Career Center is available to students to further their research.




Annual Notice of Guidance and Counseling Services
For Fluvanna County Public Schools

In Fluvanna County Public Schools, the Guidance and School Counseling Program in grades Kindergarten through twelve is a planned, sequential program of services that is proactive in scope and developmental in nature. The purpose of the program is to provide all students with strong academic, career and social/personal skills. School counselors will collaborate with parents, teachers, administrators, and community to promote student success. The Program supports the strategic initiatives adopted by the Fluvanna County Schools Board.

A comprehensive guidance program consists of the following components:

* Classroom and group activities to provide all students with the skills needed to address their academic, career and social needs.
* Individual planning to provide assistance to all students so that they plan, monitor and manage their own academic, career and social development.
* Responsive services consisting of interventions to meet the immediate needs and concerns of students.
* Student mediation
* System support for management of activities that establish, maintain and enhance the total guidance program.


The Guidance and Counseling Program is a shared and collaborative effort with other educators and parents that focuses on all aspects of student learning. School Counselors help students to acquire an understanding of the knowledge and skills that contribute to effective lifelong learning, offer strategies and activities to help students succeed academically, helps students to build a foundation for the successful transition from school to the world of work and/or further training and/or education, and supports personal and social growth in acquiring an understanding of, and respect for, self and others and the skills to be responsible citizens.

Parents may review materials to be used in any counseling and guidance program by contacting the school counselor. Parents who object to the participation of their children in any component of the counseling program must notify the school principal in writing if the student is not to participate in any such guidance and counseling program.




Academic Guidance and Counseling

Counselors assist students and their parents in learning about the school curriculum and selecting courses, which will prepare students for future educational and vocational opportunities. Counselors also promote academic growth by helping students resolve problems, which interfere with learning, by encouraging students to accept responsibility, and by helping students, understand their role as learners.




Career Guidance and Counseling

Counselors help students identify their interests and abilities, acquire knowledge and make plans concerning jobs, apprenticeships and post-secondary educational.




Personal/Social Guidance and Counseling

Counselors help students develop an understanding of themselves and others, define individual goals, resolve conflicts, and prepare for further academic study and the world of work.

With parental consent, individual and/or group counseling may be provided. Information is kept confidential and separate and is not disclosed to others without parental consent unless otherwise required by law.

Parents may review materials to be used in any counseling and guidance program by contacting the school counselor. Parents who object to the participation of their children in any component of the counseling program must notify the school principal in writing if the student is not to participate in any such guidance and counseling program.