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.