MONTGOMERY CENTRAL
HIGH SCHOOL
Counseling Department
MISSION
The mission of the MCHS Counseling Department is to provide a comprehensive counseling program while engaging all our students in academic, personal/social and career development.
VISION
Our vision is to strive to assist all our students in reaching their greatest potential to be career ready and lifelong learners prepared to pursue post-secondary options. All students will have the potential to graduate prepared to become a successful, responsible, and productive member of society. We will work collaboratively to support teachers, parents, and administration while advocating for all individual student needs.
Montgomery Central High Counseling Staff
If you are experiencing a mental health emergency, please do one or more of the following:
Contact TN Crisis line 1-855-CRISIS-1 (855-274-7471)
Text Hello to 741741 (Crisis Text Line)
Visit the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
Call 911
Go to the nearest emergency room
YOUR LIFE MATTERS. YOU MATTER.
School Counselors Defined Tennessee Bill #302
Passed May 24, 1999
An act to re-designate guidance counselors as school counselors and to amend TCA (Tennessee Code Annotated), Title 49, accordingly. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Tennessee: Section 1. TCA, Section 49-5-402(a), is amended by deleting the words "guidance counselor" wherever they appear and substituting the words "school counselor".
The state law was passed to formally changing the name from "guidance" counselor to school counselor. Professional school counselors, The American School Counseling Association, Tennessee School Counseling Association, and the Tennessee Department of Education have been working diligently to reconfigure the professional identity of PSCs from its historical guidance epistemology to a comprehensive developmental model. The professional school counselor is a certified/licensed educator (must have a Master's or higher in TN), is trained in school counseling with unique qualifications, and has skills to address all students' academic, personal/social and career development needs. Professional school counselors implement a comprehensive school counseling program that promotes and enhances student development.
In effect, MCHS employs school counselors, not guidance counselors in the Counseling Department.