The elementary guidance program serves all elementary students. The counselor works with parents, students, and teachers to promote a positive school environment. Counseling goals include helping children understand themselves and others, preventing problems from developing, providing crisis intervention, helping identify children with special needs, and coordinating or facilitating efforts of others. The counselor works with individuals, with groups, and in the classrooms. Children may request an individual conference by putting a note in the counselor's folder in their classroom. The student will be seen as soon as possible. Short-term individual counseling may also be provided at the request of the teacher or parent.