Surrounding Students With a Community of Support

What sets Communities In Schools apart is the way we coordinate a comprehensive range of services to achieve whole-child support. We do this by placing staff—site coordinators—inside schools to connect students at risk of dropping out with a vast array of community resources and services.

Across Washington our communities benefit from a multitude of organizations working to help young people succeed—from low-cost health providers, to food banks, to civic and service groups. Our site coordinators maximize the effectiveness of these groups by linking them to students directly at their schools - bringing the community to the school.

Equal parts compassion and expertise, site coordinators work one-to-one with struggling students. One child at a time coordinators respond quickly to get young people the help they need, when they need it.

Complementing this work, we recruit and train a community of volunteers who provide positive adult role modeling, help with academic and home issues, and set the expectation for success. These everyday supermen and women become like second family to struggling youth, getting to know our kids in ways no other program can match.

By pairing critical, targeted assistance with relationship-based support Communities In Schools accomplishes true whole-child support. Students perform significantly better in school and develop the confidence and self esteem they need to make a better future for themselves. We don’t just help young people, we help young people transform.