Goals center around meeting the needs of adolescents. Advisor functions as a relationship builder and assistant to student. Advisor functions as a parent liaison, relationship builder, assistant to student, and attendance taker. Team as a whole is responsible for parental contact. Advisors are individually responsible for their students and they make parental contact.
Advisors have several individual conferences with their advisees.
It is advantageous for Redwood Valley to have Homebase right away in the morning. This way students have a positive start to the day, and they can voice concerns about issues that bubbled up at home the previous night. A benefit to mixing students from all grades is that there is more diversity, and they bring a wide array of concerns with them. However, the maturity levels may differ dramatically and this may lead to problems. A plus to having the same students all four years is that students become closer and have a close network of peers.