The Guidance Department provides each IND student the opportunity to capitalize her full potential during her high school experience. The program is designed to reach all students by addressing specific developmental competencies in the following areas:

• Personal-Social: Learning to Live
  Becoming more aware of who she is and how she can effectively interact with others.
• Education Success: Learning to Learn
  Becoming more aware of how to realize achievement potential while in school.
• Career Success: Planning for the Future
  Selecting and gaining acceptance into colleges commensurate with her credentials where she can begin her further education in the career field that best matches her interests and skills.

The programs sponsored by the Guidance Department are focused on both prevention and intervention. The school counseling curriculum consists of activities that address mastery of specific competencies and may be conducted on an individual basis, small group situations, or classroom settings.

Individual student planning consists of those activities through which students are helped to manage their own personal-social, educational and career development. Responsive services consist of those activities through which more pressing student issues are addressed. Examples of responsive service activities include individual and group counseling, consultation, and referral to internal or community resource personnel.

System support activities are those through which the school counseling program is managed and enriched, and the total educational program – of which school counseling is an important part – is supported.

Students are assigned the same guidance counselor for all four years at IND. Assignments are alphabetical, by last name. The Guidance Department is staffed by two full-time counselors and an administrative assistant.

GUIDANCE DEPARTMENT
Mrs. Lisa Fink
Director of Guidance
M.S.W University of Maryland at Baltimore

Mrs. Linda Carey
Guidance Counselor
M.A. Towson University

Mrs. Janice Wheelbarger
Guidance Department Administrative Assistant