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1. Student Welfare Services

These are basic services and programs needed to ensure and promote the well-being of students. These
include Information, Orientation and Awareness, Guidance and Counseling, Career and Placement,
Economic Enterprise Development, and Student Handbook Development.

a. Information and Orientation Services

These are informative activities and materials designed to facilitate student adjustment to life in
tertiary/higher education.

a.1. Information and Orientation Services

This service consists of information materials on institutional mission, vision and goals, academic, rules
and regulations, student conduct and discipline, student programs, services and facilities and such other
information necessary for student development and should be made available to all students.

It also includes regular comprehensive orientation program held for new and continuing students
responsive to their needs, including orientation on the dynamics and nature of persons with disabilities,
and relevant laws and policies affecting persons with disabilities.
An organized, updated, and readily available educational, career, and personal/social materials in different
accessible formats are also provided to students. Information materials include statutes affecting students
such as (a) R. A. 9262 or Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Act; (b) guidelines on drug abuse
prevention and control, (c) R.A. 7877 or the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995, (d) HIV AIDS awareness,
(e) self-care and healthy lifestyles and (f) R. A. 9442, particularly on the provision on public ridicule
and vilification against persons with disability.

b. Guidance and Counseling Services

b.1. Guidance Service - a set of services using an integrated approach to the development
of well-functioning individuals primarily by helping them to utilize their potentials to the
fullest.
b.2. Counseling - individual or group intervention designed to facilitate positive change in student
behavior, feelings and attitudes.
b.3. Appraisal - gathering of information about students through the use of psychological tests and
non-psychometric devices.
b.4. Follow-up - a system of monitoring to determine the effectiveness of guidance activities,
in general, and placement in particular.
b.5. Referral - refers to coordination of multi-disciplinary team of specialists to ensure that special
needs of students are met.

c. Career and Job Placement Services

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