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.
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.
Our vision is to work in partnership with parents, guardians, and all members of the school community to provide a safe, supportive and culturally competent environment for students to address their mental and behavioral health needs and thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. We serve to inspire all students to develop their individual potential to become lifelong learners who are successful, active, and productive citizens in our emerging and diverse society.
The mission of the Educational Therapy program is to remove social/emotional/behavioral barriers to education by providing equitable access to school-based mental health services for each and every student in order to maximize academic achievement and foster personal and emotional growth.
Mrs. Hernandez
"Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they're never weakness." — Brené Brown
Mrs. Choudhury
“Mental health…is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.”
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.
Mental health services in schools include a broad range of services, settings, and strategies. Mental health services in schools apply social/emotional learning for individuals and groups to improve academic performance, social skills and coordinate and evaluate plans to meet unique individual needs for learning or behavior problems.
Short-term, Solution-Focused Individual or Group Counseling
Proactive/Preventative lessons to promote healthy social-emotional, academic, and college/career development.
Create & support school-wide activities that encourage safe, responsible, and respectful school culture.
Collaborates with parents & school staff members to establish support or resource linkage.
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.
Educational Therapists role in this system of supports. Is the third tier, which entails, Intervention/Services: Pull-out Push-in , Group Crisis Management/Support, Increased instruction and practice with self-regulation and social skills, Case management for behavior and social emotional challenges, Teacher consultation for
behavior and/or social emotional difficulties, Social-Emotional supports and planning that actively involves family, community supports, and resources
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.
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