This allows the Guidance staff to provide the students with a better picture of their personality through standardized psychological tests. Furthermore, it also helps them discover their special abilities, skills, learning interests and aptitudes that will help them determine their progress and development during their stay at Sacred Heart College.

This benefits particularly the new students in their effort to get acquainted with their new school environment and make their adjustment favorable in their college life, in enabling them to go about their academic training and personal formation with maximum confidence and minimum anxiety.

Each student is provided with his/her own record filed in the Guidance Office where essential information such as the student’s personal record, socio-economic profile and psychometric reports are gathered. The data give better insights into the student’s needs which provide opportunities for the counselor to help the individual effectively.

This is characterized by the setting of plans and formulation of policies on how the school would attract applicants for enrolment and what requirements and systematic procedures for admission must be followed.

This seeks to collect relevant information to determine whether program goals are met in terms of outcomes as basis for modification of the delivery of services. The information gathered is used to make a sound basis for planning, implementing, managing and promoting existing and new programs/services.

This intends to aid the students in their educational and career development by knowing how much progress he/she has made and how much more is needed in the light of his/her potentialities. These services provide appropriate foundations for later career planning and decision making; unexplored possibilities of careers are opened up wherein their potentials can be fully developed through organized activities such as career symposia and job fairs. Moreover, linkages with former students (alumni and dropouts) are established in order to solicit their cooperation to improve the school’s delivery of services and to know in what way else the school could be of help.

It is the HEART of the Guidance Program that establishes a helping relationship between the counselor and the student to bring about a meaningful awareness and understanding of the self and environment by assisting them in their problems/ difficulties. Furthermore, students called PEER FACILITATORS are trained and equipped with counseling skills and are made ready to extend helping hands and listening hearts to their fellow students and in assisting them to gain better self-under standing and improve interpersonal relationships.

Counseling Services include:

• Academic Advising * Family Relationships


• Career Planning * Peer Relationships


• Educational Planning * Interpreting Assessment/Career Test Results


• Personal Development



While counselors have been initially assigned to students by course, each student is free to see any counselor of his/her choice.

Counseling service is also extended to SHC personnel.

This service provides an opportunity for closer coordination between the home and the school for the welfare of the students. The Guidance Office serves as a bridge to the gap between the student’s home and school life. Assistance is rendered and valuable information such as studies, surveys, evaluations, psychometric test results, researches undertaken and feedback are conveyed to the administrators and faculty in implementing and formulating school policies, curricular planning and revisions, and in improving students services in the light of research findings. Furthermore, parents and guardians are welcome for dialogue and consultation about the issues concerning their children’s development in the school.

The HED Guidance office, being part of the support system plays a vital role in providing a support strategy for helping the children of Global Filipino Workers. Aside from developing purposeful activities and programs that can increase their awareness and understanding of migration issues, programs that enable the students from migrant families to cope with the realities of their special situation are provided to them. Moreover, this program aims to guide the children of migrants in handling their problems (educational, vocational, personal and social) and to help them in making more appropriate plans and life decisions.