Our model integrates a variety of supports for students during the school day to help them overcome academic and non-academic barriers to learning.
Basic Needs
Basic needs are the building blocks of personal achievement. If a student is hungry, cold, tired, or struggles to read the board, these challenges stand in the way of academic success. By fulfilling basic needs, our site coordinators create safe, nurturing spaces for student success.
Social Emotional Health
Students must learn critical life skills to manage their frustrations, fears, and find focus amidst life’s challenges. By helping students manage conflict, anxiety, low-self-esteem, and navigate personal losses, life skills training helps students seize the futures they want – and deserve.
Health Initiatives
Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the board, is suffering from a toothache, or is absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.
Academic Assistance
Fully devoted to student success, our site coordinators provide students with the resources and the resolve to succeed in school, at home, and in life. From providing students with tutoring, remedial, or learning support, we fuel personal potential, one achiever at a time.
After-School and Summer Programming
Students need safe, supportive places to study, discover, and grow. Offering a range of enrichment experiences to essential academic support, our after-school and summer programs nurture personal development and success. From Science Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) explorations to recreation, art, and music, lightbulb moments happen when learning happens everywhere.
Mentoring
CIS mentors inspire students to believe in themselves, break barriers, and take charge of the futures they want. Our one-to-one, school-based program matches adult and peer volunteers with students seeking support. For one hour per week, mentors and students forge valuable bonds, helping one another become the best version of themselves.
College and Career Exploration
Taking the steps toward college and a career is easier when someone is there to light the way. By helping families navigate the intricacies of college applications, financial aid, scholarships, and post-secondary career paths, we help students take the next steps with confidence. From job shadowing days and career weeks to college field trips and College Week events, we help students prioritize their futures.
What do CIS Site Coordinators do?
Our trained CIS Site Coordinators are in schools during the school day. These caring adults support students & families by providing and connecting them to the resources they need most.
How can school staff refer students?
There are many ways to refer a student including, stopping by the CIS Office in the school, email, call, or text the CIS Site Coordinator, or complete a Referral Form at your school.
