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Our Mission

We strongly believe in the importance of our role as guides, caregivers and advocates for our students and work together as a team towards the goal of providing students with a variety of personal and professional supports.

Our Services

The SRSS guidance team is there for students to help meet a variety of needs:

  • Registration/Course selection
  • Personal Counselling
  • Educational Counselling
  • Career Counselling
  • Linking students & parents with resources in their community

Ask a counsellor

If you have questions and can’t find answers we would be happy to help in any way we can. If, for any reason, you are unable to get an appointment with your counsellor, feel free to let them know by email any personal, academic, or career questions that you might have.Please be aware that priority is always given to booked appointments and in-person visits to the counselling office and that no timetable changes will be made via email. If you need immediate assistance please come to the counselling area (K7). If this is an after-hours emergency please check out the important contact information found on the student helps web-page. Use the links below to contact your counsellor.

Rachel Thiessen – Dept. Head (EAL/Transitions)
Jonathan Dyck (Grade 12)
Kimberly Friesen (Grade 11)
Michael Thiessen (Grade 10)
Darcey Steiner (Grade 9)
Charlotte Heinrichs (Grade 9 Support)
Kaleigh Henrikson (Flex Ed)
Sheree Perreault (Admin Assistant)

Our Team

The guidance office has a career resource area that contains career publications and bulletins as well as a file cabinet overflowing with resources dedicated to local career opportunities as well as those available throughout Canada.We have a number of publications (Career Connections, Smart Careers, etc) available for students on the magazine racks at the front of the office as well.
Other important information sources for career exploration include:

Career Cruising (careercruising.com)
Do you know what career you want? Do you know what your employablility strengths are? If you already know or are looking for answers to these questions this is the website for you. Career cruising is devoted to career exploration and contains links to valuable job-hunting resources. Your username for the site is Manitoba628 and the password is careers.

Service Canada (servicecanada.gc.ca)
This Government of Canada site includes a cross-country job bank as well as a youth and students page that contains information on FSWEP (federal student work experience program).

Manitoba Prospects (manitobacareerprospects.ca/)
Manitoba prospects is a great resource for students seeking information on high demand or cutting edge careers. It is largely dedicated to Manitoba career opportunities but does contain some more general information that is useful in any kind of career planning. Included in the Mb prospects is a career planning guide that contains outlines of 200 plus Manitoba careers and the steps that must be followed to get hired.

Manitoba Apprenticeship Branch (www.gov.mb.ca/wd/apprenticeship/)
For the latest on a career in a Trade visit this Goverment of Manitoba site. It has information on how to start the training process, how to find a participating trade school and employer and much more.

The SRSS guidance department welcomes parental involvement and encourages parents to play an active and on-going role in their child’s education. Parents are invited to contact the school in regards to student attendance, general well-being, behaviour, and academic progress, or with any other concerns that they might have.

Attendance
If you have any questions about the SRSS attendance policy and procedures, please contact the administrator responsible for your child’s grade. If you need to excuse your student’s absences, or notify the school of upcoming events that will keep him or her from classes please contact the general office.

Student Well-Being
The SRSS guidance staff is trained to counsel students in a variety of areas including grief and loss, esteem and identity issues, self harm, self management, and interpersonal and intrapersonal skill development. Students are invited to visit their counsellor if they find difficulty in going to classes for emotional or psychological reasons. If you have any concerns about your child’s emotional or psychological well-being you are encouraged to let his or her counsellor know.

Behaviour
Please contact the administrator for your child’s grade if you have concerns about their behaviour or the behaviour of other students. If it is a disciplinary concern then the administrator will deal with it directly. Should extraordinary circumstances exist, the appropriate administrator may co-ordinate with the resource and/or guidance departments to develop a behavioural plan or intervention if or when needed. Students with any kind of special behavioural need are looked after by a team made up of an administrator, a resource teacher, and a guidance counsellor.

Academics
The best person to contact regarding your child’s academic progress in any class is his or her subject-area teacher. In the event that academic needs or other concerns arise, counsellors work together with resource and the subject area teacher to put together and implement a plan for student success. Parents who talk with their students about their plans, help them develop strategies, and co-ordinate with their student’s teacher can help make the process go much more smoothly. We invite our students to visit us with more specific questions about post secondary academic opportunities and enjoy sharing with them the most recent information available.

OrganizationContact InformationSupport Category
Addiction awarenessafm.mb.caHealth & Support
Al-anon/Alateen204-943-6051Health and Wellness
Anna’s House Family Resource Centre204-346-0413Support Services
Anxiety Disorders Association204-346-0026Support Services
Anxiety disordersadam.mb.caHealth & Support
Domestic Violence Crisis Line1-877-977-0007
Drugs & alcoholaamanitoba.org Health & Support
Drugs & alcoholal-anon.org/Health & Support
Eating Disorders Manitoba204-888-3326Support Services
Eating disordersmirror-mirror.orgHealth & Support
Eating disordersnedic.ca Health & Support
Facts of Life1-204-982-7800Health and Wellness
Farm and Rural Stress1-866-367-3276Crisis Support
First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Help Line1-855-242-3310
Grace Haven Pregnancy Crisis204-326-5695Crisis Support
Health Canadahc-sc.gc.caHealth & Support
Health Links1-888-315-9257Health and Wellness
Health/sexualityrainbowresourcecentre.caHealth & Support
Kids Help Phone1-800-668-6868Crisis Support
Klinic Crisis Line (24/7)1-888-322-3019
Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre Aboriginal Crisis Support1-888-962-6294Crisis Support
Manitoba Suicide Help1-877-435-7170Crisis Support
Mental healthmbwpg.cmha.caHealth & Support
Mobile Crisis Services1-888-617-7715 or 204-326-9276Crisis Support
Mood Disorders Association1-800-263-1460Support Services
Mood disordersmooddisordersmanitoba.caHealth & Support
Public Health Nurse204-346-6253Health and Wellness
Recovery of Hope1-866-493-6202Support Services
Schizophreniaopenthedoors.comHealth & Support
Sex educationserc.mb.caHealth & Support
Sexual Assault (24hr help line)1-888-292-7565Crisis Support
South Eastman Community Mental Health1-888-310-4593Support Services
South Eastman Health1-800-742-6509Health and Wellness
Southeast Helping Hands204-326-2599
Steinbach Child & Family Services204-346-7340Support Services
Steinbach Community Outreach204-392-2650
Suicide Bereavement1-877-435-7170Support Services
Suicide preventionsuicideinfo.caHealth & Support
Teen Issueskidshealth.orgHealth & Support
Teen Issuesteenshealth.orgHealth & Support
Teen Issuesteentalk.caHealth & Support

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