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Kadre Counseling Center
The School Counseling Department at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School adheres to ethical and professional standards in implementing a developmental counseling program that promotes Jesuit values and fosters student success. One of the department’s goals is to provide care for each individual student (cura personalis). This approach capitalizes on each student's unique strengths to help them achieve their academic and personal best.
The School Counselors work with students to enact positive changes in areas such as educational, social, emotional, and/or behavioral functioning. The counselors employ a variety of methods to maximize their effectiveness and promote positive growth. These include individual counseling, small group counseling, family conferences, consultations with teachers, administrators and other school staff, classroom presentations, referrals to outside professionals and special events and projects.
The counselor implements a curriculum that is developmental, flexible, and responsive to the specific trends and needs of their assigned grade level. Through this process, an emphasis is made on character and value formation, decision-making skills, and personal awareness. The Counseling Department strives to strengthen our students' emotional skills, making them more adaptable and successful in achieving their future goals.
In addition, counselors provide crisis counseling and responsive services when needed to help students overcome any obstacles that may interfere with their personal well-being and academic success.
Activities
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The 6th and 8th Grade Dynamics
A 6th-grade FLEX is paired with an 8th-grade FLEX at the beginning of the school year. The students meet and interview each other on school basics, and the 8th graders offer the new 6th graders their "best advice" for being successful in Middle School. -
The 6th Grade Survival Guide
At the end of the school year, the current 6th grade class writes down their best advice for "surviving" 6th grade and it is compiled in a booklet and presented to the next incoming class as a gift to them. -
The 7th and 8th Grade Ambassadors
Students volunteer to welcome the new students to Belen, identify any students who may need additional support and mediate conflicts within their grade.
The Counseling Department strives to strengthen our students' emotional skills, enabling them to become more adaptable and successful in achieving their future goals.
- Teresita Gutierrez, Director of School Counseling
Each grade level is assigned to a counselor who stays with his/her students for several years. This model helps solidify a strong relationship between the student, his family and the counselor.
CONTACT US
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BELEN JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL
500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: communications@belenjesuit.org
500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: communications@belenjesuit.org
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School was founded in 1854 in Havana, Cuba, by Queen Isabel II of Spain. The task of educating students was assigned to the priests and brothers of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), whose teaching tradition is synonymous with academic excellence and spiritual discipline. In 1961, the new political regime of Cuba confiscated the school's property and expelled the Jesuit faculty. The School was re-established in Miami the same year, and over the next decade, continued to grow. Today, Belen Jesuit is situated on a 34-acre site in western Dade County, just minutes away from downtown Miami.