Morrison Academy Kaohsiung

The Counseling Services on the Kaohsiung campus provide a bible-based guidance and counseling program available to all students, teachers, staff, and parents, with a proactive and preventative focus to help students mature spiritually, emotionally, academically, and socially. Weekly guidance classes are delivered in classrooms at each grade level to promote academic, personal, social, and emotional development and to prevent maladaptive behaviors. The counseling curriculum covers study skills, personal responsibility, conflict resolution, decision making, problem-solving, interpersonal relations, handling emotions, dealing with fears, friendship, vocational planning, stranger awareness, sexual abuse prevention, and character education; middle school topics also include adolescence, relationships, drugs and alcohol, peer pressure, stress, suicide, prejudice, third-culture kid issues, with opportunities for parental discussion. Individual or group counseling is available on an as-needed basis, initiated by parents, teachers, or students, with confidentiality maintained (and parents contacted if necessary for safety). Staff include High School Counselor Mr. Newkirk and Elementary/Middle School Counselor Mr. Chan, both long-tenured at MAK Kaohsiung. The guidance program is part of the school's broader student-life offerings on campus.

Special Services/Learning Center is listed as one of Morrison Academy's seven significant school-wide areas of emphasis, indicating a formal focus on special services at the network level. The Middle School Christian Service Learning program partners with Renwu Special Needs School, illustrating MAK Kaohsiung's engagement with SEN-related institutions and activities. Counseling Services on campus provides emotional and personal support for students more generally, rather than a dedicated SEN program. The school does not publicly disclose the specific kinds of SEN it can support or whether it operates as a specialist SEN institution. Overall, SEN-related provisions are referenced in partnership and program structures, but detailed campus-level SEN criteria are not published.

Instruction at Morrison Academy Kaohsiung is conducted in English. The Kaohsiung site does not publish a distinct EAL (English as an Additional Language) program or staff dedicated to EAL support. The school's public materials indicate English-language instruction but do not specify EAL services beyond that. The school does, however, provide a counseling program and a chapel/mentoring framework as part of its support services. The school does not publicly disclose EAL-specific provisions beyond the general language of instruction in English.

Mental wellbeing is supported through Counseling Services, which offer weekly guidance classes and individual/group counseling as-needed. The Kaohsiung campus also provides weekly chapel services for all students, with a formal Advisory Program in the middle and high schools to discuss personal and spiritual growth. University-style chaplains for different levels (Elementary Chaplain Ms. Kristen Lee, Middle School Chaplain Mr. Jim Andrews, High School Chaplain Mrs. Melonie Tam) coordinate spiritual support. The counseling and chaplaincy framework includes a focus on handling emotions, stress, and personal development, with confidentiality maintained in counseling sessions. Discipleship and spiritual emphasis activities, retreats, and leadership events further support student wellbeing.

Morrison Academy states a commitment to a safe and protected environment for all students, with staff and volunteers required to maintain established safeguards in all interactions with children. The school is a member of the Child Safety and Protection Network (CSPN), and implements CSPN's seven key elements of an effective child safety program. Training for volunteers, substitutes, and vendors is provided, and there are designated confidants to handle concerns about safeguarding. The safeguarding framework also includes formal reporting processes and access to child safety policies and procedures, as well as police report processes. The Kaohsiung campus' safeguarding information is complemented by CSPN resources and cross-campus practices.