Counseling and Student Support

About

The Counseling and Student Support team at Santa Rosa City Schools District is dedicated to providing comprehensive support services to students and their families. This team includes Family Engagement Facilitators, Specialized Educators, Counselors focusing on areas such as Career and Technical Education (CTE) and mental wellness, and various support staff including a Community Worker and District Translation Supervisor. Their mission encompasses a range of services from facilitating family engagement and providing targeted academic and emotional support, to overseeing specialized programs such as Migrant Education, Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), and initiatives in equity and curriculum development.



Meet the team

Fun facts

I’ve travelled to 25 countries on four continents.


I'm a twin myself and have twin girls.


Kaesa collects art at second-hand stores & donates the art by decorating bathrooms around the district office & schools where she's worked. She is on the board at Restorative Resources, a non-profit.


Karen

My best friend and her family are Dutch-American and live in The Netherlands. I am learning Dutch and the prononunciation is hard--literally (like coughing up a hairball!)!

What's the best professional advice you ever received?

Through Restorative Practices, I have learned the power of doing things WITH people, not TO people. It's process over product!

If you didn't have this job, what would you be doing instead?

I have wanted to be a teacher since I was six years old and fell in love with my first teacher. However, there was a time I wanted to ALSO either train monkeys (I learned American sign language so I could communicate with primates and still speak semi-fluently!) OR a private investigator. I do enjoy solving mysteries on the side.


I probably would be working for a non-profit or work in tourism.


Karen

I always wanted to be a teacher, but if I were to do something else, I would be interested in being an architect, a veterinarian, a writer--so many possibilities!