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Okat Park and River Forest High School | District 200

Student Services

Our Student Services division includes our counselors, deans, and social workers.  Each student has an assigned counselor, who is part of a Student Services Team  or SST for short. The primary goal of the SST is to help students succeed in school academically, socially, emotionally, and behaviorally. Each SST team includes the following:

  • Three counselors: Address the academic, career, and social-emotional needs of students. 
  • Dean of students: Works with the student's family, counselor, teachers, and support personnel to assist students with behavioral issues, student conflicts, and any other issues that may interfere with the student's safety and success.
  • Two school social worker: Provides individual student counseling on a short-term basis and facilitates student support groups.
 
 

Student Services Teams (SST)

Click below to see the members of each SST team and their contact information. 

Wellness Workshops

We have instituted monthly wellness days, where team members go into classrooms and complete a lesson on various topics to help improve our students' social-emotional capacity. Click here for more information.

 

Additional Resources

Assistant Principal of Student Services
Lauren Olson                 laolson@oprfhs.org

Counseling Department Chair                 Joe Herbst                                                            jherbst@oprfhs.org

Asst. to the Assistant Principal of Student Services
Gabby Van Zant
gvanzant@oprfhs.org

Enrollment and Registrar Manager
Gabriela Olivera
golivera@oprfhs.org

Registrar
Eva Daniels                   edaniels@oprfhs.org

Prevention and Wellness Coordinator
Ginger Bencola                                                 
gbencola@oprfhs.org

504 Coordinator
Daniela Lukic Cole
dcole@oprfhs.org

504 Secretary
Barbara Sutton 
bsutton@oprfhs.org

MTSS Coordinator                                          Hannah Maurer                                         hmaurer@oprfhs.org

Community Outreach Coordinator
Tyrone Garland
tgarland@oprfhs.org

Trauma Informed School Interventionist
Kandis Jernigan
kjernigan@oprfhs.org