Introduction

The mission of the Counseling and Special Education Department is to educate primarily northeast Ohio students, and to help them develop into counselors, intervention specialists, and related professionals who are sensitive to the impacts of human development, culture, and context upon students and consumers of education and counseling services; who are caring and compassionate teachers, counselors and people; who are self-reflective; who promote opportunity and social justice for the impoverished urban and rural populations mainly within northeast Ohio; and, who are committed to empowering consumers of counseling services to thrive, and to achieve their fullest potential