Required Services

Communities In Schools (CIS) offers all 6 required components of the CIS program within our service area based on the specific needs of the students and campuses as communicated to CIS by school administrators: Our CIS programs provide the following required program components at all our schools:

• Educational enhancement – help students through tutoring or mentoring to improve their academic and vocational skills and achievements.
  
  
• Enrichment – help students enhance their self-esteem, through a variety of programs and activities, while encouraging them to control and channel their behavior in constructive ways.
  
  
• Parental/Family involvement – facilitate and encourage parental involvement in their children’s school experience.
  
  
• Health and Human Services – provide these services, to students and families to enable them to concentrate on their school priorities.
  
  
• Pre-employment/Employment – provide students with easy information or access to skills training and job placement.
  
  
• Supportive Guidance – improve students’ attendance at school and broaden the students’ horizons by providing a personal, one-on-one relationship with a caring adult.

Other Services

• Provide supportive guidance and programs relating to drugs, alcohol, smoking, gangs, violence, ethnic sensitivity, teen parents
  
  
• Provide social, organizational, employment, and behavior skills programs to students
  
  
• Provide positive self image, social skills, and conflict resolution classroom sessions
  
  
• Provide goal setting, tutoring and educational enhancement
  
  
• Coordinates eye, dental, and hearing screenings for students at our elementary schools
  
  
• Coordinate parent/children activities at our Resource Centers
  
  
• Provide “Summer School” programs in 2 school districts
  
  
• Perinatal services to our pregnant teens
  
  
• Facilitate Parenting workshops and coordinate ESL classes for adults.

All these services will augment and in most cases create new services to the children. School principals and counselors are identifying those particular services that are most needed in their campuses. They have also agreed, in our “Partnership Agreement” to notify CIS of any possible duplication of services.