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Phone: (716) 695-2600
Fax: (716) 692-8697|
Office Hours: Monday through Friday, 7:30am to 3:30pm
CEEB CODE: 335576
To download a copy of the February 2010 "Guidance Gossip" newsletter, click here.
Student Services
The Cardinal O'Hara Guidance Counseling Center is designed to assist all students in their development toward becoming self-directed, respectful of themselves and others, responsible, and productive, caring citizens in the community. The program assists students in the following ways:
Helping them understand their:
- Unique personality
- Personal value system
- Academic potential and achievement
- Vocational aptitudes
- Graduation requirements
- Personal and career interests
Help students achieve the following:
- A realistic, tolerant philosophy of life
- Appropriate personal, academic, and career goals
- An understanding of their developing educational needs
- A complete high school program plan to meet their needs
- An evaluation of progress toward graduation with adjustments as needed
- A transition from dependence to independence
- School Counselors are certified professionals that guide students academically, socially, and personally throughout their high school career. It is a collaborative process that needs the support of parents/guardians, teachers, staff and community.
School Counselors:
- Ms. Michelle L. Willard, grades 9 through 11, ext. 313
- Ms. Laura Meli, grade 12, ext. 314
Staff:
- Mrs. Rena Hoffman, ext. 353
- Ms. Kelly Wagner, ext. 305
For information on summer camps for students, visit www.studenteducationprograms.com
Helpful Information:
- COHS' school code (for college applications): 335576
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