School Counsellors

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Counselling Centre

Welcome to the Counselling Department

Thank you for visiting.

Clarence Fulton Counselling Services can support students and families through a variety of options, interventions and planning tools. We provide many key services to support mental health, academic success and post-secondary planning. Our goal is to promote, provide and support well-being as advocates of mental health, healthy relationships and development.

Please feel free to browse the information provided on this site and contact our department at your convenience.

COUNSELLING TEAM:

As noted below, each counsellor works with a section of our school that is divided alphabetically by last name.

Mrs. Pauline Kereluk

Last Names A-K
pkereluk@sd22.bc.ca

Mr. Geordy Reid

Last Names L-Z
greid@sd22.bc.ca

Mrs. Deb Meyer

Career Programs
dmeyer@sd22.bc.ca

SEEING A COUNSELLOR:

Counselling appointments can be scheduled by emailing your assigned counsellor or via drop-in. Out offices are located within the cubed-window area across from the entrance to the Main office towards the Gym. We are often busy, so if you are waiting more than 5-10 minutes, please try again. If there is an urgent matter, please let one of us know by gently knocking on one of our doors or accessing the main office.

COUNSELLING ROLE:

The Ministry of Education’s Mental Health in School Strategy (MHiS) was introduced in 2021 to both acknowledge and address mental health issues in schools. This strategy is a detailed and all-encompassing approach to building resiliency, fostering wellness, highlighting classroom initiatives and collaborating with mental health professionals outside of the school system.

To view the MHiS document which outlines the Ministry’s objectives, please see this document:

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/erase/documents/mental-health-wellness/mhis-strategy.pdf(link is external)

At Fulton Secondary, we have long been utilizing these same ambitions and ideas to inform our counselling beliefs and practices, emphasizing the importance of mental health promotion in our community.

One of our primary roles is to develop relationships with mental health resources and providers that can offer wraparound services that intervene and prevent threats to mental well-being. At Fulton, we have been working hard to build these connections and establish an openness and awareness of mental health.

The BC School System is a first responder and line of defence in working within a broad scope of mental health practices, and in having this role, we strive to build an increased capacity for understanding and appreciating mental health.

While we are certainly effective at providing therapies and motivational interventions, our ability to do so on a clinical basis is challenged by demand and obligations outside of ongoing personal therapy. Fortunately, which reflects our mandate to promote mental health, Vernon, the North Okanagan and the Province of BC provide numerous youths, individual and family counselling options that work in collaboration with our department. To maximize efforts in supporting mental wellness, we believe that wrap-around service is best. We urge families to seek these options, in connection with us, to support our students.

External Mental Health Resources and Providers in Vernon:

Below, we have provided links and contact numbers to ones that we feel have been successful in addressing a variety of mental health needs:

You can also access a variety of links here: OKANAGAN MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES

INTERIOR HEALTH MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE

DOWNTOWN VERNON MENTAL HEALTH