Counseling Services include:
1) Counsel
• Assist individual students with educational and personal concerns (such as attention strategies, behavioral interventions, goal setting, adjustment issues, social skills)
• Facilitate small groups focusing on a common concern (friendship, school adjustment, changes in the family, anger management, conflict resolution)
• Provide support for a large group of students experiencing grief or trauma through the district Crisis Team.
2) Consult
• Provide staff with resources and information to help with student needs
• Observe classrooms to gather information, identify problems, and develop plans to increase learning
• Share information with parents (resources and community agencies)
• Work closely with the team (parents, school staff, and community agencies) to help students
3) Teach
• Collaborate with classroom teachers on curriculum areas related to counselor’s skills (bullying, interpersonal concerns)

The following methods can be used to contact me for obtaining services.

• Parents (short note, email Peg.Rupprecht@cps-ne.org, note in the child’s agenda, call to the secretary or principal)
• Children (request to a teacher, self referral to the counselor’s mailbox located by the south door)

I am able to see a child one time without parental permission, but will contact parents for written permission for any other individual or group sessions. Times for those sessions are selected to accommodate the classroom learning of the student.