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Academics
Student Support Services
Mercy's Collective Care Model
Mercy’s Counseling Office partners with students, families, and faculty to foster a learning environment that balances academic rigor with access to supports— academically, socially, and overall emotional wellness.
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Academic Counseling
Counselors help students develop the organizational and time management skills needed to balance rigorous coursework. Counselors assist with long-term goal planning and yearly course selections. Our Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) helps identify students who need additional instructions and social emotional support.
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Student Support Wellness
Health & Wellness
Mercy’s Wellness Program helps students learn strategies for coping with stress, building resiliency, and choosing/fostering healthy relationships. Guidance and programming promoting balanced nutrition, healthy habits, and positive behaviors help each student become the best person they can be.
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Career and College Counseling
Career & College Counseling
Our Career & College Counselor works with students to explore their personal strengths and interests to help them establish goals for life after High School.
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Nurse
Nurse
Mercy’s nurse provides daily healthcare and support to our students. This office also handles all physical/health appraisals, immunization records, at-school medications, emergency care plans, etc.
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Pastoral Care
Pastoral Care
Pastoral care is available to students and staff who are facing illness, loss, or other significant challenges. The Director of Campus Ministry welcomes prayer requests and is available as a supportive presence.
Consultation, Collaboration, Intervention
Through consultation, collaboration, and intervention, our School Counselors act as a resource to promote students’ independence and self-advocacy, while ensuring students receive support in alignment with their level of need. To accomplish this, a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework is used to proactively identify and address learning concerns.
Learning Support: Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)
List of 4 items.
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Tier 1: Universal Supports
- Daily Homeroom & Advisement Periods
- Regular access/opportunities for 1:1 and small group meetings
- Use of planners and assignment trackers
- Behavior agreements
- IXL skill building
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Tier 2: Targeted Supports
- Academic Achievement Support - Learning Lab provides students with academic support specific to Math and English Language Arts. This support can be part of the student's schedule or be used as a drop-in to meet the student's academic needs.
- Structured Advisement periods provide support targeting organization, study skills, and time management.
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Tier 3: Individualized Support
Our supports are aligned with RTI (Response to Intervention) and AIS (Academic Intervention Services) models which are designed to address skill building. We encourage families who think their child’s needs most align with Tier 2 or Tier 3 supports to reach out during the admissions process to discuss their concerns with Mercy’s Dean of Student Support Services.Learning Plans:- Learning Plans are developed to minimize impact of a diagnosed disability on a student’s school performance and, to the extent possible, provide equal access to the curriculum. Accommodations provided on a school-based learning plan affect how a student accesses instruction or assessment but do not fundamentally alter or modify the essential nature of a course, curriculum, or graduation requirements.
- Eligibility for accommodations is determined on a case-by-case basis after a thorough documentation review by Mercy’s Dean of Student Support Services. Mercy follows nationally recognized documentation guidelines. Documentation should be from a licensed, certified, or otherwise properly credentialed professional and include:
- Information regarding diagnosis
- Description of functional limitations of disability
- Description of how the disability substantially limits one or more life activities
- Generally accepted forms of documentation include, but are not limited to: psycho-educational, neuropsychological, psychological and/or medical evaluations. Documentation should be from an updated evaluation that has taken place within three years of the accommodation request. Individualized Education Plans (IEP) and 504 Plans from previous schools or districts may also be used as part of your supporting documentation, but may not be sufficient on their own. Documentation from mental health and/or medical providers should be typed on letterhead, signed, dated, and include the information requested above.
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Standardized Testing Accommodations
Mercy adheres to the documentation guidelines of College Board and ACT. These organizations expect that students have a documented history of receiving the specific accommodations they are applying for. Applying for accommodations on College Board (PSAT, SAT, SAT Subject, AP) and ACT tests is a separate process from school-based accommodations. Eligibility for and use of accommodations at Mercy does not guarantee accommodations from standardized testing organizations.
Students and families are responsible for applying for accommodations and registering for these tests by the deadlines posted by each organization. Mercy’s Counseling Office can assist with the required documents and steps once notified by a student/family.
Mercy Counseling Staff
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As part of our See Something, Say Something initiative, Mercy has a Safe School Helpline to report health and safety concerns, threats of violence, and illegal activity that could harm students.
The number, 1-800-4-1-VOICE x359, is monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Reports may also be made by texting the word “tips” to 614-426-0240 or online at www.safeschoolhelpline.com.
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