Help us empower students to confront and overcome personal challenges and structural barriers.
At home, at school, and beyond — kids need you!
Our goal is simple. Put students at the center. Surround them with a caring community of support. And create access to critical resources, like food, housing, healthcare, counseling and remote technologies so they can take charge of the future they want for themselves, their communities, and each other.
1.7
Million students were reached with CIS supports and resources
88%
*of students met or made progress toward at least one of their social and emotional learning (SEL) goals
83%
*of students who received our most intensive supports were students of color
96%
*of seniors who received our most intensive supports graduated or received their GED
7,400
graduates planned to attend some form of postsecondary education
* outcomes for case-managed students
In this podcast episode, you'll hear directly from Shakaka S. Perry from CIS of Charlotte-Mecklenburg about how she’s helping students, who have been chronically absent during the pandemic, return to school or find other pathways to education and/or employment.
Now more than ever, we must reimagine public education and find new ways to create equitable conditions for learning for ALL students, with students at the center, surrounded by a caring community with access to all necessary resources.
At least three million students have gone missing from classrooms across the nation during the pandemic. In this op-ed, Rey Saldaña talks about how we need a plan to help every school find its missing students, keep kids in school, and put them on a path toward graduation.
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Meet seventeen year-old Lexi — she has an unbreakably positive attitude towards school and life, no matter what challenges she faced throughout her childhood.
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Communities In Schools of Georgia is reengaging students by addressing learning loss and empowering kids with the various tools, resources, and supports they need to succeed.
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This report emphasizes the need to ensure successful reengagement of all students and build a more equitable system of learning that will exist well beyond …
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This Data Book provides an overview of CIS organization and licensed partner operations and human resources, site-level staff and student supports, and student demographics and …
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This policy brief addresses the unprecedented challenges that students and families have experienced due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including experiences of social isolation, economic crisis, …
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Learn more about the work Communities In Schools is doing to empower and equip every student to take on and tear down the barriers that stand between them and an equitable path to education.
