Our Reach
During the 2009-2010 school year, CISC partnered with 170 schools and served an additional 128 non-partner schools. Together with our network of more than 150 service providers, CISC connected more than 1,300 programs and services to more than 60,000 students — at no cost to students or schools.

During the 2010-2011 school year, we will continue to connect more than 60,000 students with services that address their social, emotional and health needs. CISC has an impressive long-term goal of serving 100,000 students annually by 2015.

Our Challenge
Many Chicago public school children need help. More than 85 percent of Chicago public school students come from low-income homes and most live in underserved communities. Many lack access to the social, emotional, health and enrichment supports that are critical to academic success. Parents turn to schools as a community hub where these needs can be met, but schools are often under-resourced and stretched just to address academics.

Our Solution
Communites In Schools of Chicago (CISC) addresses the gap between students’ needs and schools’ ability to respond to these needs. We connect students with free social, emotional, health and enrichment programs and provide schools and the community organizations providing services with strategic and tactical expertise in effective program coordination. CISC partners with a broad range of service providers to connect students with programs and services that include:

• Academic and arts enrichment;
• Alcohol and substance abuse education;
• Anger management and conflict resolution;
• Counseling;
• Faculty and family support;
• Health education and direct health services;
• HIV/AIDS prevention education;
• Nutrition and physical education; and
• Violence prevention education.

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