Park Hill Elementary - SJUSD
VISION
The Elementary School Counseling Program strives to partner with staff, parents, and community stakeholders to provide a safe and caring learning environment where our students grow and develop into high-achieving learners. The program will equip our students for the opportunities and demands of the 21st century by offering a differentiated, effective, and rigorous curriculum. All students practice safe, respectful, and responsible behaviors preparing them to be successful members of their community.
MISSION
The mission of the Elementary School Counseling Program is to ensure that all of our students receive equitable access to the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to achieve academic success, college and career readiness, personal growth, and social responsibility to become contributing members of their world and community.
meet the team
School counselor
Mrs. Hernandez
"Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they're never weakness." — Brené Brown
ed. therapist
Mrs. Choudhury
“Mental health…is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.”
ed. therapist
Ms. Mindy
"Connection is why we are here; it is what gives us purpose and meaning to our lives."
Email: melinda.katahara@sanjacinto.k12.ca.us
counseling services
School Counselors are important members of the San Jacinto Unified School District’s education team. School counselors help all students in the areas of academic achievement, personal/social development, and career development.
Counseling
Short-term, Solution-Focused Individual or Group Counseling
Classroom
Proactive/Preventative lessons to promote healthy social-emotional, academic, and college/career development.
Systems
Create & support school-wide activities that encourage safe, responsible, and respectful school culture.
Consultation
Collaborates with parents & school staff members to establish support or resource linkage.
WHAT IS THE COUNSELING PROCESS?
Multi-Tiered, Multi-Domain System of Supports
A tiered systems approach of increasingly intensive interventions to facilitate effective implementation of activities and services that focus on core instruction and differentiated interventions to address the needs of ALL students in the three domains of school counseling: academic, college and career, and social/emotional.
Hatch, T., & Hartline, J. (2021). The Use of Data in School Counseling: Hatching Results (and So Much More) for Students, Programs, and the Profession. Corwin Press.
*Please note: School Counselors are not therapists and do not do “therapy”. Referrals for outside counseling services are available for children experiencing issues that may require therapy.
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