COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG INC
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Mission Statement
Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Inc. (CIS) helps move the dial for disadvantaged students, enabling the young people we serve to get the right kind of support (interventions/services), in the right amount (dosage/intensity level), at the right time to better position them for high school graduation, post-secondary success and self-sufficiency.
About This Cause
As part of the nation's leading stay in school network, the mission of Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Inc. (CIS) is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Sitting at the cross-section of education and human services, CIS is guided by the larger goals of increasing the number of high school graduates, helping to stabilize students to be in a better position to learn, as well as assisting students and their families with defining clear, viable paths for post-secondary education and careers while fostering other opportunities for achievement, self-sufficiency, and economic mobility. Our organization, which began in 1985 at a single school serving 80 students, now shapes the futures of over 6,200 at-risk students annually through core dropout prevention programming and specialized interventions at 45 high-need school sites in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) including Jail North/Central as well as assists an additional 28,000 students through school-based programming and resource securement at these same schools. Current programming includes school-based dropout prevention (PreK-12) as well as specialized interventions that target and address specific, chronically growing community issues such as college access and career readiness for underprivileged youth, support for teen mothers balancing the challenges of childcare and high school graduation, working with youthful offenders to continue their education, and serving unaccompanied immigrant minor students. Youth living in poverty face complex challenges inside and outside the classroom, and CIS provides them with personal guidance and trusted support through the nurturing relationships with our CIS Site Coordinators. By delivering student assessments and case management with targeted interventions to meet specific, identified student challenges and critical needs, and providing other support services focused on attendance, behavior, coursework and parent engagement in tandem with academic/other enrichment as well as life skills/college/career development activities, CIS successfully and consistently connects low-income, vulnerable children to the fundamental resources, services, and relationships they need to stabilize their situation; focus on their education; and graduate better prepared to secure their future in the 21st century workforce.