Many children face challenges both inside and outside the classroom. Through a school-based coordinator, Communities In Schools provides a caring adult relationship to support children throughout the school year and strategically aligns and delivers needed resources so that CIS students can focus on learning.
For a detailed description of services provided at each school level, please view the tabs below.
- Elementary School Students
At each elementary school site we serve, the CIS “safety net” includes, but is not limited to
- Providing case management and dropout prevention for students
- Working with school staff to monitor students' attendance/promotion/academic progress
- Participating in School Intervention Team meetings aimed at assessing students' needs
- Participating with and serving as a resource for CMS/Juvenile Court-led Truancy Court
- Identifying special needs and referring child/parents to outside agencies as appropriate for basic needs
- Coordinating recognition programs for all enrolled students around academics, attendance and behavior
- Coordinating and working with community partners to offer enrichment and resource opportunities
- Developing relationships with varied human service agencies to enable coordinated delivery of services to students to address identified issues
- Partnering with existing school volunteer coordinator to create additional volunteer roles and opportunities
- Coordinating annual college and/or career awareness focus
- Coordinating and/or supporting incentive and recognition programs
- Offering opportunity for enrolled students to be involved in community service projects
Elementary School Sites, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools served by CIS
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- Middle School Students
At each middle school site we serve, the CIS “safety net” includes, but is not limited to:
- Providing comprehensive case management and dropout prevention for 100 students
- Working with school staff to monitor students' attendance/promotion/academic progress
- Coordinating the CIS Kids To College® program designed to bring early awareness to the importance of higher education
- Coordinating with local colleges to expose 6th grade students to college life through a unique six-session curriculum that combines hands-on activities with information on careers, and college life
- Organizing and providing opportunities for 7th and 8th grade students to participate in college tours throughout the school year
- Utilizing the CIS Kids To High School Program that introduces CIS enrolled 8th graders to high school life and academic requirements throughout the school year
- Informing students of the career path choices available to them upon entering high school
- Participating in Career Shadowing and Service Learning opportunities
- Planning and organizing Student Leadership meetings that focus on developing and enhancing leadership skills
Middle School Sites, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools served by CIS
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- High School Students
At each high school site we serve, the CIS “safety net” includes, but is not limited to:
- Providing comprehensive case management and dropout prevention for 100 students
- Working with school staff to monitor students' behavior/attendance/promotion/academic progress
- Consulting with school guidance counselor to ensure new high school students are enrolled in appropriate courses to achieve career plan and support for other needs
- Organizing staffings aimed at assessing needs, setting goals and strategizing around interventions for high school students
- Coordinating volunteers and monitor mentors
- Connecting families to community resources for basic needs and services
- Planning and presenting Life Skills Workshops for students and parents
- Providing ThinkCOLLEGE® and other scholarship opportunities for eligible students
- Organizing Job and Career Shadowing for CIS students
- Providing opportunities for CIS students to participate in the CPCC Summer Bridge Program and the Summer Youth employment with City and County
- Providing college access and career readiness programming, which exposes students (and parents where applicable) to college tours, financial aid and scholarship information, SAT/ACT entrance exam preparation, the college application process, job shadowing and internship opportunities, career fairs, and much more
- Coordinating with CIS’s Safe Journey/APP team to provide appropriate teen parenting services and other educational services/needs, if applicable
- Providing opportunities for social development, cultural enrichment, experiential learning, and community service/service learning
High School Sites, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools served by CIS
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