The Counseling Center provides students the resources and support they need to be successful. Grade-level counselors follow students throughout their four years. Two full-time college advisors assist students with scholarship and college applications and provide each girl with as many choices for her future as possible. A wellness educator designs social emotional wellness programs that are integrated throughout the school community. She provides education and training to students, parents, school personnel and counselors, collaborating with community mental health providers.
Counselors hold quarterly grade-level meetings to discuss students who may need additional assistance and to identify those students who deserve special recognition for accomplishments. All teachers in each grade level collaborate on determining the practices which will best reach all students. In addition, counselors meet with every student at least twice a year to discuss college and career readiness.
Career Day
Each year, the St. Joseph’s Academy Alumnae Association and Counseling Center host Career Day for juniors and seniors. Career women, many of whom are Academy graduates, gather on campus to share their career experiences and answer questions from students interested in their professions. Career Day also features guest speakers; a panel of young alumnae who are current university students or recent graduates; and a career expo, enabling students to visit different table displays and talk to women in careers of interest to them.
Job Shadowing
Juniors and seniors spend a day off campus each spring shadowing professionals in career fields in which they have an interest. Job Shadowing Day is an annual event sponsored by the SJA Counseling Center. Students enjoy shadowing mentors in a wide range of professions, from healthcare to law, physical therapy to film, and engineering to sports management, among others.