

Communities In Schools® (CIS™) believes that transformative relationships are key to unlocking a student's potential. We will succeed by including in our strategies, ingraining in our culture, and reflecting in our behaviors, principles and practices of diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a result, we break down immediate and systemic barriers to create and sustain equitable outcomes.
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.
Steffan Barahona's senior year of college was quiet. The pandemic emptied out Washington College campus and classes were virtual, leaving him a lot of time to think about how he could most meaningfully apply his psychology degree after graduation. He kept coming back to a big reason he was graduating from college to begin with, his CIS NOVA site coordinator from high school, Amanda Gallardo.
Read moreThis resource guide will lead you through comprehensive diversity, equity, and inclusion readings, tools, and other resources.
DOWNLOAD NOWThis guide is designed to support your efforts to increase your engagement with the CIS alumni community.
DOWNLOAD NOWThis 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 …
DOWNLOAD NOWThis report emphasizes the need to ensure successful reengagement of all students and build a more equitable system of learning that will exist well beyond …
DOWNLOAD NOWThe CIS model of integrated student supports can help schools address the local factors contributing to disengagement and inequitable learning.
DOWNLOAD NOWThe future of our country starts with our students and continues with our alumni. If you are a CIS alumni,
we encourage you to join our community of changemakers. To support alumni engagement efforts, we also have a new Alumni Activation and Resource Guide, which you can download below.