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.
Shannon Willis
“Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.”
―Chantal Sutherland
Email: swillis@sanjacinto.k12.ca.us
Phone: (951) 654-7349 EXT 3206
Blake Stephens
“Mental health…is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.”
Email: bstephens@sanjacinto.k12.ca.us
Phone: 951-654-7439 ext.3223
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.
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.