Helpful Resources:

National Crisis Hotline (Call or Text): 9-8-8

Local Resources: Call 211 or connectie.org

Redlands Coordinated Student Support Website

If you are experiencing a medical or mental health emergency call 911.

Vision Statement: 

Students who experience the BMES Comprehensive Counseling Program successfully manage their lives as healthy, responsible, and productive 21st-century leaders who respect themselves and others. Students fulfill their dreams through problem-solving, critical thinking, and innovation, and are contributing members of society. BMES students are college and career-ready, as 21st-century lifelong learners, adapting to life’s challenges positively and healthily. 

Mission Statement: 

The mission of Redlands Unified School District Elementary School Counselors is to provide an equitable, developmentally appropriate, data-driven, comprehensive school counseling program that is accessible to all students. School Counselors aim to close the achievement gap by utilizing a multi-tiered system of support to meet the needs of the whole child, empowering them through social-emotional learning, academic development, and career exploration. School Counselors build a partnerships with teachers, parents, students, administrators, and members of the community to advocate for a positive school climate, equipping students with the skills necessary to confront the challenges of our changing world. 

School Counseling Belief Statements:

• Every student has his/her unique strengths and talents 

• Every student has the right to learn how to use healthy coping skills in their daily life to deal with the stresses they face now and in the future.

• Advocate for a positive school climate for every student, in which they feel safe and cared for at school.

• Each student should have access to a full-time, state-certified counselor who delivers a comprehensive, equitable school counseling program.

• Every student has the right to feel happy and safe, both physically and emotionally. 

• Every student deserves to be a part of a culturally compassionate and inclusive school environment. 

• Every student deserves equal access to education and equitable access to developmental resources. 

• There is no such thing as bad children, just children who need to learn appropriate problem-solving and emotional management.

• Counselors help close the gap by ensuring students have equitable access to academic, academic classes, advanced academic programs, and classroom curricula that teach social-emotional learning and problem-solving skills with advanced exposure to career learning opportunities. 

• All student's cultural, ethnic, racial, and relationship preferences and differences along with other special needs are honored, respected, and considered when planning, developing, and implementing the school counseling program.

• Each student can achieve academic, career, and social/emotional success when given appropriate and timely support and interventions as well as rigorous and relevant instruction.