Organizations Filed Purposes:
To empower children and their families to reach their full potential through advocacy, education and services. As Communities in Schools, we surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
To empower children and their families to reach their full potential through advocacy, education and services.
Overall Organizational Highlights: -We served 3,500 children with our direct services, academic supports, and through our AmeriCorps program. -Last year 68 community members volunteered more than 590 hours at our Learning Centers, the Family Resource Center and as Reading Buddies in the schools we serve. List of Major Programs: 1) Project Power/AmeriCorps is a national service program that recruits members to strengthen communities, get things done, build leaders and expand horizons. The primary objective of this program is to provide increased academic and cultural enrichment services to vulnerable youth in the city and county through 1)Tutoring and academic assitance, 2)Providing a liason between school, afterschool and home
for students, 3)Engaging youth in service learning projects to instill the ethic of service, 4)Teaching students non-violent conflict resolution skills and 5)Empowering community members to provide tutoring and mentoring assistance to youth. 2) The communities in schools (CIS) student support specialist programs at Claxton, Johnston, Estes and Emma Elementary Schools and Eblen Intermediate School empowers students to stay in school and achieve in life. A school-based student support specialist connects students and their families to critical community resources that are tailored to their needs. They accomplish this by working with a site team (principal, counselor, social workers, and teachers) to develop a comprehensive site plan. The plan includes services that address identified school-wide needs, or build and reinforce student assets. It also identifies services for specific students
at high risk of eventually dropping out of school. 100% of the 323 Emma Elementary School students qualify for the Free & Reduced Lunch program. 3) The Children First/Communities in Schools (CIS) learning centers are safe haven afterschool programs that provide academic assistance, healthy snacks and enrichment activities for up to 40 at-risk elementary aged children. 24 students participated in a 6 week summer camp that offers a variety of enrichment and education opportunities. The Learning Centers strengthen the connection between student, school, parent and community, which is a key element in helping an at-risk child succed in school and prepare for life. We had a 100% promotion rate for the 40+ elementary school- aged children enrolled in our after-school Learning Centers. All the children exhibited improved behaviors and either maintained or improved grades. Children First/Communities in Schools has two additional opportunities for afterschool enrichment, Eblen Working Warriors which serves 15 students and Deaverview Homework Club which serves 15 students. 4) In addition to direct services, Children First/CIS engages in public policy advocacy campaigns to build opportunity for children and families. Through education and outreach, Children First/CIS builds a community-based advocacy voice for our vulnerable children, youth, and their families. When our leaders create policies that are good for children, it leads to better health, education, and safety for our whole community. In order to address emerging needs, our public policy advocacy work is designated to be dynamic and flexible. The agenda, created by our success equation leadership team, includes campaigns that we believe can impact priority issues. Children First/CIS advocacy also partners with statewide organization/coalitions to move shared interests forward and increase our effectiveness and reach. We advocate for 100% of Buncombe County's children. 5) The family resource centers at Emma, Johnston, and Eblen improve the financial stability of families by providing emergency assistance for rent, utilities and medical expenses, ongoing case management, parenting classes and holiday assistance. These services are available to families at Estes Elementary, Johnston Elementary, Emma Elementary and the greater Emma Community. On average, the Family Resource Centers serve 300 families each year.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Natasha Adwaters | Executive Director | 40 | $67,000 |
| Ms Elizabeth Saxman Underwood Phd | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Chris Campbell | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Anya Robyak | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Corry Hyde | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Ms Jennifer Reed | President Elect | 1 | $0 |
| Patrick Bahls | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Dave Long | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Mike Knepshield | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Mark Dickerson | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Ms Sallie Broach | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Shataura Dudley | Board member | 1 | $0 |
| Ms Machelle Cathey | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Yuki Damerville | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Mr Jonathan Thompson Cpa | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Dr Laurie Pulver | President | 1 | $0 |
| Ms Cecilia Rawlins | Past President | 1 | $0 |
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