Post-Secondary Expo 2025

Planning for your future? The Post-Secondary Expo is the perfect opportunity to explore all your options! Whether you’re considering college, university, trades, or other pathways, come meet with representatives from top institutions, get expert advice, and find the right fit for your next chapter.

Date: April 29, 2025
Time: During ALL School Lunches
Location: HHS Library/Mall Area

Junior/Senior College Planning

Haverhill High School will be hosting an SAT test day on Saturday, March 8, 2025. The registration deadline is February 21, 2025. Students are expected to arrive at 7:30am and sit for 2 hours for the exam. Students are released at approximately 11am. Students are expected to bring their fully charged chromebooks (since all HPS devices already have Bluebook installed), their testing ticket (print or photo) and one form of identification. Students who are interested should sign into their college board account to register. Students who do not have an account can create one on collegeboard.org. Use this link to register for the March 8th test. https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/sat/dates-deadlines  Please sign up as soon as possible as space is limited. The cost is $68 to register. There are other local schools that will be offering the SAT in the spring and summer if your student chooses to take it on a different date. Please contact your school counselor if you have any questions.

College Planning

Calling Junior & Senior Parents/Guardians: Although necessary, Information on financial aid can be dull. Our School Counseling Department at HHS put a spin on it this year and hosted Kevin Fudge, an MEFA representative. He was an entertaining presenter and provides the ins and outs of FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid). A recording will be available soon!

January 14, 2024 from 5:30-7pm Make It Haverhill along with HPS Counseling Department will be hosting a “Journey into FAFSA”. Ask questions and get assistance starting the application!

December 3, 2024 Haverhill “Scholarships, Grants & Loans” live via ZOOM. Haverhill Public Library is hosting “Scholarships, Grants & Loans” live via Zoom on 12/3 at 6:30 pm! Register in advance at https://foxly.link/haverhillpl12. Learn about college cost-reduction strategies, little known assets, borrowing & savings methods to help make college planning both successful and affordable!

Cartwheel

Cartwheel Partners with school districts to provide students and families with rapid access to mental health assessments, evidence-based therapy, medication management and consultation, and parent/guardian guidance. All of our services are via telehealth with licensed clinicians. We are committed to providing affordable care for everyone – including uninsured families and those covered by Medicaid. To learnmore about Cartwheel’s services, please contact a member of your school’s counseling or guidance team.

High School Performances

Let’s work together so the treatment of one becomes the prevention of many.

HC Media taping of Drug Story Theater performance

Drug Story Theater’s Mission Statement: Drug Story Theater (DST) takes teens in the early stages of recovery from drugs and alcohol, teaches them improvisational theater, and helps them craft their own unique stories into a play about their seduction of, addiction to and recovery from drugs and alcohol. They then perform this play to middle, high school and college audiences so “the treatment of one becomes the prevention of many.” Incorporating brain science with slides in between scenes, DST teaches how young people get addicted and how the adolescent brain is neurologically wired for addiction.

Drug Story Theater is an innovative, evidence-based, peer-to-peer treatment and prevention program. Surveys show that after seeing a 40-minute play, the audience overwhelmingly believes marijuana is addictive, and that drugs and alcohol have an adverse effect on relationships and the ability to succeed in school. In the talk back portion of a show, one of the main points Dr. Joseph Shrand (the creator of Drug Story Theater and a leading expert in adolescent addiction) addresses is how marijuana is a gateway drug to opioids. https://www.drugstorytheater.org

Sponsored by the City of Haverhill Mayor’s HOPE Task Force, Grade 9 students had the opportunity to see this performance in November after it was also presented to the Haverhill community in October.

 

Activities