COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GEORGIA
260 Peachtree Street Suite 700, Atlanta, GA 30303 www.cisga.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The mission of Communities in Schools is to surround students, with a community of support, empowering them stay in school, and achieve in life. --- Communities in Schools is a network of nonprofit organizations focused on improving student and school success by providing needed support and services to students and schools. Our ultimate goal is to see that all students are successful in school and complete their education at least through high school. --- Communities in Schools achieves our mission through our evidence-based CIS Model of wraparound student supports. The CIS Model is implemented by CIS site coordinators, who provide whole school prevention services, and targeted intervention for at-risk students through case management and/or small group supports. The CIS Model was validated by a 5-year independent evaluation to result in the strongest reduction in dropout rtaes of any existing fully scaled dropout prevention program that has been evaluated.

The mission of Communities in Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life

Comprehensive Student Dropout Prevention Initiative - DOE - Communities In Schools of Georgia receives funding through the Georgia Department of Education to provide dropout prevention support to youth in grades K-12 through our network of local CIS affiliate organizations. During FY2019, Communities In Schools of Georgia provided training and technical support to 33 local Communities In Schools affiliate and subsidiary programs and CIS site coordinators at 163 schools and 4 community-based sites throughout the state for the purpose of enhancing affiliate partnerships and improving outcomes for the schools and students they serve. During FY2019, CIS of Georgia began providing support and services to students at schools that were part of the Turnaround School Initiative of the Chief Turnaround Office, serving 17 of the lowest performing schools in the state. CIS of Georgia provided support to affiliates in development of best practice programs and provided technical support to affiliates in the areas of nonprofit management, board development, resource development, communications, and evaluation. CIS of Georgia staff recorded 694 technical assistance and training contacts. This work included 61 site visits and 279 more formal support services taking place through events, formal trainings, meetings, and webinars. During FY2019, local CIS affiliates provided services to a total of 97,317 Georgia students (unduplicated) at 167 school and community-based sites, including providing intensive sustained services to 8,629 at-risk students in need of on-going support, and whole-school prevention services and short-term intervention services to 96,597 students. Affiliates helped 25,504 parents become more involved in local schools through parent engagement activities, and provided over 50,000 hours of community volunteer support to schools and student through 4,941 community volunteers and an additional 22,000 hours of volunteer service from CIS AmeriCorps Volunteer Members. During FY2019, CIS affiliates achieved the following results for the at-risk students they served: 70.2% of students with attendance problems improved their attendance; 73.1% of students with disciplinary problems improved their behavior; 95.8% of at-risk elementary school students were promoted; 96.8% of at-risk middle school students were promoted; 95.4% of at-risk high school students stayed in school or graduated; 728 CIS case managed students graduated.

Communities In Schools AmeriCorps Tutorial Program early intervention strategy for elementary school students who are performing below grade level in reading and/or mathematics in under-served communities around Georgia. The primary objective of the program is to implement high quality, research-based tutoring strategies that positively impact student achievement in reading and place them on the road to success. The program identifies three main goals in an effort to fulfill all requirements under this CNCS sponsored grant. The following program goals were met: 1) Needs and services: 26 AmeriCorps members provided over 20,000 hours of tutoring and exceeded their target for tutoring 400 students, reaching 450 students at 8 CIS affiliates. Student outcomes: 93.2% of tutored students improved their interest in reading and/or overall academics, 86.2% demonstrated academic improvement in language arts and 83.3% improved their performance in mathematics. Students also made progress in school attendance and behavior, with 85.9% of students who were chronically absent before the program improving their attendance during the program and 88.5% of students with a history of disciplinary problems improving their behavior. Overall, 95% of the students were promoted to the next grade level. 2) Member Development: 26 AmeriCorps members come together twice per year for Pre-Service Orientation and End of Year Training events. Site visits are conducted throughout the year and members are observed and provided feedback on their service experience. Members come together at the end of the program year to share reflections on their term of service with the whole corps as well as prepare for their lives after AmeriCorps service. 3) Community Strengthening: Volunteers have been engaged to provide services along with AmeriCorps members. Members have recruited 100 volunteers who served as guest speakers and participated in service projects such as Read Across America Day and various Martin Luther King Day service projects.

Division of Children and Family Services (DFCS)

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