Help us empower students to confront and overcome personal challenges and structural barriers.
At home, at school and in between, kids need you!
Our goal is simple. Put students at the center. Surround them with a caring community of support. And create access to critical resources, like food, housing, healthcare, counseling and remote technologies so they can take charge of the future they want for themselves, their communities, and each other.
1.7
Million students were reached with CIS supports and resources
88%
*of students met or made progress toward at least one of their social and emotional learning (SEL) goals
83%
*of students who received our most intensive supports were students of color
96%
*of seniors who received our most intensive supports graduated or received their GED
7,400
graduates planned to attend some form of postsecondary education
* outcomes for case-managed students
Through the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, racial reckonings, and more — our students have persevered. For this reason, affiliates across the country have gone beyond the classroom to celebrate our students’ accomplishments with spirit weeks, gift baskets, parades, and end-of-year celebrations.
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Experiences of social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic have created unprecedented challenges for students and families, highlighting the need for social-emotional learning more than ever.
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Check out this coauthored op-ed written by Rey Saldaña and Shaquille O’Neal on how low-income students are experiencing learning loss and chronic absenteeism at higher rates – but how proper funding and proven whole-child supports models can set students up for success.
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An estimated three million students in the U.S. have gone “missing” during the pandemic. This is a moment of choice for K-12 public education in America — to do more than reopen the old system. We have the opportunity to make new and better choices to build a more equitable system of public education that works for all students.
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The US public education system is not built to meet the needs of all students. But this past year has shown us with new clarity, the unacceptably high costs of old ways of seeing and solving the problem. We believe we have a moral obligation to respond by following a thoughtful and inclusive process to reassess our own priorities, plan, and culture to ensure we’re having the most important impacts on both the student and the system.
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This report emphasizes the need to ensure successful reengagement of all students and build a more equitable system of learning that will exist well beyond …
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This Data Book provides an overview of CIS organization and licensed partner operations and human resources, site-level staff and student supports, and student demographics and …
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This policy brief addresses the unprecedented challenges that students and families have experienced due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including experiences of social isolation, economic crisis, …
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This new refreshed plan carries forward key elements of the original strategic plan and introduces six new strategies and related initiatives that ensure we can …
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The CIS model of integrated student supports can help schools address the local factors contributing to disengagement and inequitable learning.
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