Student Services

Our staff are proud members of state and national counseling organizations (WSCA and ASCA). Each member holds a M.Ed School Counseling or Leadership and is passionate about delivering exceptional Academic and Career Plans (ACP) to every student. As a Career Technical Education (CTE) school, WLHS guides students to create strategic pathways for post high school success.

Wisconsin Lutheran Student Services partners with students to be future focused for productive, Christ-centered lives by taking ownership in their well-being and exploration toward life goals in a diverse world.

Every Wisconsin Lutheran student and parent receives exceptional student services that guide and support families with academic, college and career counseling, and mental health services using collaborative solutions with faculty, to prepare future generations for success to the glory of God.

Wisconsin Lutheran Student Services is committed to purposeful engagement and having collaborative solutions among students, parents, and staff. Students will be empowered to create healthy habits for growth and explore potential vocations to be productive Christian citizens in a diverse world.

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College Possible is a pre-college program that assists juniors and seniors with ACT preparation, essay writing, completing college and scholarship applications, and understanding financial aid. Students will meet one-two times a week during their free period or after school. Students must meet GPA, academic and financial requirements to be eligible for the program. If you have any questions about eligibility please speak to your counselor

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Students can earn college credit while in high school. Qualified students will be eligible to enroll in courses through Early College Credit Program (ECCP).

Students may also earn dual credit through approved online courses. These credits will be accepted for WLHS graduation requirements and can transfer to most colleges or universities.

Student applications must be approved by Student Services.

WLHS partners Wisconsin Lutheran College and other local and regional colleges.

The State of Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development Youth Apprenticeship program integrates school-based and work-based learning to instruct students in real-world on-the-job skills defined by Wisconsin industries. Areas of youth apprenticeship include STEM, manufacturing, architecture and construction, finance, and health science. Interested students should contact their school counselor for more information. Student applications must be approved by Student Services.

Viking-2-Viking takes place a total of six times throughout the school year. Students are able to discuss, with a panel of Wisco alumni, about their careers and stories about how they got from high school to where they are now.

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Select courses receive social emotional learning (SEL) where students are taught resiliency, mindfulness, conflict resolution, and develop peer relationships.

Critical Thinkers is a counseling group that meets on Mondays during homeroom and chapel. Critical Thinkers focuses on identifying feelings of anxiety and depression and finding strategies to cope with these feelings positively. Each year a school counselor visits a class for a series of workshops designed to grow problem solving skills, resiliency, and mindfulness.

Hope Squad is a peer-to-peer suicide/self-harm prevention program. Hope Squad members are nominated by their peers as trustworthy students that one can confide in. Members are trained on the direct and indirect signs of self-harm and suicide ideation and how to appropriately intervene with a student who is struggling with these thoughts and behaviors and how to refer them to a trusted adult. 

Students lose parents or siblings, many in tragic ways. Our school counselors added a grief share group for students to gather and share their stories with peers that can relate.

A licensed therapist through Christian Family Solutions (CFS) is a part of the Student Services team to assist with the growing mental health needs of our students.

The Student Success Center (SSC) operates as part of Student Services and is designed to serve and support all students at WLHS.

Services include:

• testing center for the student body when an assessment needs to be made-up due to an absence
• individual learning needs

The SSC is staffed by Randall Strutz, Liz Koester, Kenton Fabian, and Stephanie Lamas.

The English Language Learner (ELL) Program provides support for students desiring to become more proficient in the English language.