Child Guidance

Through the Safe Schools Healthy Students grant, SHS partnered with Child Guidance to receive counseling services for students in school. SHS has a clinician from Child Guidance, Laura Lokenburg, located in the building to work with students identified as needing counseling services for a variety of reasons that may include: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Trauma, Mood Disorders, Adjustment Disorders, and Oppositional Defiant Disorders.
Child Guidance offers individual and family counseling; home based services, as well as psychiatric services. Child Guidance also provides emotional well-being screenings and assessments to determine what kind of services may be needed for a student and their family. This year Child Guidance offered a TEEN SCREEN to incoming freshman to screen for concerns of depression and/or suicidal ideation.

If you feel your child may need services or would like them to be screened please contact Child Guidance at 381-8911 or stop in at 530 Franklin St. 2nd floor Schenectady NY 12305.

A child’s emotional health and well-being plays a key role in determining his or her success in school, ability to get along with others, and ability to deal with the challenges of growing up.