Chicago Students And Their Families Faced Many
Chicago students and their families faced many challenges in 2020-21. Students spent the school year learning remotely and navigating isolation and stress. Families felt the burden of the pandemic, increased violence, an economic crisis, and racial injustice. Communities In Schools of Chicago responded to these challenges. Communities In Schools (CIS) of Chicago is the leading nonprofit in Chicago dedicated to removing barriers so that students can unlock their potential and stay on the path to graduation. In the 2020-21 school year, our team positively impacted the lives of 47,369 Chicago Public Schools students. We surrounded these students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. We made sure that students and school communities had the resources they needed to succeed. And we are dedicated to continuing our support with the return to in-person learning this school year. We do this important work in partnership with schools and community partners. Together, we help create an environment that allows students to flourish. They are better able to make healthy decisions that support their learning and keep them on the path to graduation.
Every Student Must Graduate The path to graduation is a journey, and sometimes even the most tenacious student can be diverted. Anything from bullying to the death of a loved one or the sudden loss of a parent’s job can stand in a student’s way of reaching graduation. CIS of Chicago empowers students to stay in school and graduate. During the 2021-22 school year, our organization will serve 65,000 Chicago Public Schools students. We accomplish this work through two core programs: It can be hard for a student to maintain good attendance and grades if they have been impacted by trauma. The pandemic heightened the trauma that Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students experience and increased the need for support that Communities In Schools of Chicago provides. The Partnership Program CIS of Chicago’s Partnership Program links 175 school partners with a range of no-cost programs, provided by a diverse network of community partners. Programs and resources align with six key areas: academic support; arts and culture; college and career readiness; counseling and supportive guidance; health and wellness; and parent and family engagement. Based on recent trends, it’s reasonable to expect that more than 4,000 of this year’s CPS ninth graders will not graduate within five years. 16.2% 83.8% The five-year high school graduation rate in Chicago is now 83.8 percent for all students. However, that rate is not even across all communities and school populations. These are the areas where CIS of Chicago focuses its work. The Intensive Program The Intensive Program embeds a master’s level professional in 30 of our 175 school partners to provide supportive guidance, goal-setting, and other tailored supports to targeted students who are off-track in their attendance, behavior, and grades. Research shows that when elementary and high school students receive essential supports like these, they do better in math and reading, improve their attendance, and are more likely to graduate from high school prepared for further success.
Our Theory of Change WHAT WE DO HOW WE DO IT SHORT-TERM OUTCOMES LONG-TERM OUTCOMES Provide essential supports to K-12 students according to their need Partnership Program: Connect essential services and programs to students and families Develop social, emotional, and academic competencies Reduce dropout rate ASPIRATIONAL VISION Every publicschool student in Chicago graduates from high school prepared to succeed Develop student relationships with caring adults Intensive Program: Directly support students with high need Improve attendance, behavior, coursework, proficiency, and grade promotion to unlock students’ full potential Increase graduation rate
In the 2021-22 school year, we are working with 175 school partners, including: 145 Partnership Program sites, where our team collaborates with school staff to coordinate community partner programs, services, and essential resources for students. 30 Intensive Program sites, where CIS Student Supports Managers are embedded to support students, families, and the school community. Additionally, in eight high schools across Chicago, a CIS Freshmen Rising Coordinator helps ninth graders transition from elementary school to high school by providing monthly check-ins, a weekly student group, and resources for their support systems. These students attended one of our Intensive Program sites during their eighth-grade year.
School Partners 2021-22 Acero Charter Schools— Brighton Park Acero Charter Schools—Rufino Tamayo Acero Charter Schools—Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Jane Addams Elementary School Ariel Community Academy Philip D. Armour Elementary School Mariano Azuela Elementary School John Barry Elementary School Beasley Academic Center Beethoven Elementary School Hiram H. Belding Elementary School Daniel Boone Elementary School Bowen High School Norman Bridge Elementary School Orville T. Bright Elementary School William H. Brown Math & Science Magnet School Charles S. Brownell Elementary School Milton Brunson Math and Science Specialty School Burnham/Anthony Mathematics & Science Academy Daniel R. Cameron Elementary School Marvin Camras Elementary School Lázaro Cárdenas Elementary School Rachel Carson Elementary School Catalyst Circle Rock Charter School Willa Cather Elementary School Thomas Chalmers Specialty Elementary School Salmon P. Chase Elementary School Cesar E. Chávez Multicultural Academic Center Chicago Collegiate Charter School Walter S. Christopher School CICS Ralph Ellison High School CICS West Belden Elementary School Claremont Academy Elementary School Michele Clark Academic Prep Magnet High School Henry Clay Elementary School Grover Cleveland Elementary School Johnnie Colemon Academy Columbia Explorers Academy Christopher Columbus Elementary School Daniel J. Corkery Elementary School Courtenay Elementary Language Arts Center Crown Community Academy Charles R. Darwin Elementary School Nathan S. Davis Elementary School Oscar DePriest Elementary School Robert Nathaniel Dett Elementary School* Everett McKinley Dirksen Elementary School Distinctive Schools Chicago: Art In Motion* Arthur Dixon Elementary School James R. Doolittle, Jr. Elementary School John B. Drake Elementary School W.E.B. DuBois Elementary School John F. Eberhart Elementary School Richard Edwards Elementary School Erie Elementary Charter School Edward Everett Elementary School Michael Faraday Elementary School David G. Farragut Career Academy High School Eugene Field School Gage Park High School Stephen F. Gale Community Academy Galileo Scholastic Academy Matthew Gallistel Elementary Language Academy Marcus Moziah Garvey Elementary School J.W. von Goethe Elementary School Alexander Graham Elementary School Nathanael Greene Elementary School Robert L. Grimes Elementary School Virgil Grissom Elementary School Frank W. Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy John C. Haines Elementary School Nathan Hale School John H. Hamline Elementary School Hanson Park Elementary School Helge A. Haugan Magnet School Stephen K. Hayt Elementary School Helen M. Hefferan Elementary School Charles R. Henderson Elementary School Patrick Henry Elementary School Charles N. Holden Elementary School Charles Evans Hughes Elementary School Edward N. Hurley Elementary School* Washington Irving Elementary School Scott Joplin Elementary School Jordan Community School Joseph Jungman School Thomas Kelly College Preparatory High School Joshua D. Kershaw Elementary School Joyce Kilmer Elementary School Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy of Social Justice John H. Kinzie Elementary School Rudyard Kipling Elementary School Anna R. Langford Community Academy LEARN Charter Excel Campus Richard Henry Lee Elementary School Legacy Charter School George Leland Elementary School Leslie Lewis Elementary School Little Village Academy Alain Locke Charter Academy John L. Marsh Elementary School Stephen T. Mather High School Benjamin E. Mays Elementary Academy George B. McClellan Elementary School Genevieve Melody Elementary School Arnold Mireles Elementary Academy Ellen Mitchell Elementary School Irvin C. Mollison Elementary School Donald Morrill Math & Science Elementary School John B. Murphy Elementary School New Sullivan Elementary School Nicholson Technology Academy William P. Nixon Elementary School Alfred Nobel Elementary School Noble – DRW High School* The Ogden International School of Chicago – Jenner Campus Ogden International High School James Otis World Language Academy John Palmer Elementary School Francis W. Parker Elementary School Community Academy* Louis Pasteur Elementary School Ferdinand Peck Elementary School Perspectives Charter–Rodney D. Joslin Campus Perspectives Math & Science High School Perspectives Charter Leadership Academy High School Perspectives Charter High School of Technology (continued on the next page)
Blue pinpoints indicate 2021-22 Partnership Program schools. Green pinpoints indicate 2021-22 Intensive Program schools. Phoenix Military Academy High School Brian Piccolo School of Excellence Pilsen Community Academy Portage Park Elementary School* Adam Clayton Powell Paideia Community Academy A. Philip Randolph Elementary School William Claude Reavis Elementary School Theodore Roosevelt High School Rowe Elementary School Martha Ruggles Elementary School Ryder Math and Science Specialty School Albert R. Sabin Magnet School Edward E. Sadlowski Elementary School Socorro Sandoval Elementary School Maria Saucedo Elementary Scholastic Academy Sidney Sawyer School Mark Sheridan Math and Science Academy Sherman School of Excellence Jesse Sherwood Elementary School John D. Shoop Math-Science Technical Academy Elementary School Mark T. Skinner Elementary School John M. Smyth Elementary School Eric Solorio Academy High School South Loop Elementary School Southside Occupational High School John Spry Community School Charles P. Steinmetz Academic Centre Adlai E. Stevenson Elementary School Stone Scholastic Academy Harriet Beecher Stowe Dual Language School George B. Swift Specialty School Douglas Taylor Elementary School George W. Tilton Elementary School Enrico Tonti Elementary School Turner-Drew Language Academy Uplift Community High School Jacqueline Vaughn Occupational High School Alessandro Volta Elementary School Carl Von Linne Elementary School John A. Walsh Elementary School James Ward Elementary School George Washington Elementary School George Washington High School Harold Washington Elementary School Daniel Webster Elementary School Oliver S. Westcott Elementary School John Whistler Elementary School Edward H. White Career Academy YCCS Association House High School *Indicates schools that have initiated partnership with CIS of Chicago in 2021-22. Bolded green font indicates an Intensive Program school.
In June 2021, principals and other school leaders responded to our annual partnership survey about the impact of CIS of Chicago. 97 percent reported that since partnering with CIS of Chicago, their school accesses more needed services. 89 percent reported that since partnering with CIS of Chicago, their school is better able to identify and address prioritized student needs. 89 percent reported that CIS of Chicago connects high-quality services. Of the more than 3,600 students we have provided ongoing intensive support to since 2009, fewer than one percent dropped out. 95 percent of seniors graduated, and 99 percent of K-11 students were promoted to the next grade. In addition, 96 percent of students met their personalized behavior goals, 81 percent met their personalized academic goals, and 76 percent met their personalized attendance goals.
Community Partners 2020-21 CIS of Chicago works with a broad network of nonprofits, cultural institutions, social service agencies, and individuals from across Chicagoland. We call these organizations our community partners. These partners will collaborate with our organization this year — in person and online — to help empower 65,000 Chicago Public Schools students unlock their potential and stay on the path to graduation. Bolded green font indicates a community partner new to the CIS of Chicago network in 2020-21. ARTS AND CULTURE BEHAVIORAL AND MENTAL HEALTH American Writers Museum Art Institute of Chicago Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Chicago Opera Theater CPS Lives Design Dance Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater Hubbard Street Dance Chicago International Music Foundation Intuit: Museum of Outsider Art Jaclyn Silverman, Photography Joffrey Ballet Lyric Opera of Chicago MeMA Music Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Music of the Baroque National Veterans Art Museum Natya Dance Theatre Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony (CSO) Northlight Theatre Oriental Institute Museum Pro Football Hall of Fame Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Smart Museum of Art Steppenwolf Theatre Company Wellness4Every1 &Rise Abrahamic Center for Cultural Education (ACCE) African American Family Research Institute Between Friends Catholic Charities Center on Halsted Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation Chicago Behavioral Hospital Chicago Chess Foundation Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, Child Grief Services Chicago Police Department Chicago Public Schools - Crisis Management Unit Chiro One Cook County State’s Attorney Don’t Be a Monster Elyssa’s Mission Erie Family Health Center Erika’s Lighthouse Garfield Park Behavioral Hospital / Hartgrove Hospital Guardian Lane HEART Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center Illinois Safe Schools Alliance Program of PHIMC Imagination Theater Insight Project for Kids International Children’s Media Center Lakeview Pantry Lutheran Social Services of Illinois Metropolitan Family Services My Familytree Storybook NAMI Chicago Narrative 4 Positive Coaching Alliance Pro Football Hall of Fame Project Increase Pulitzer Center Rainbows for All Children Resilience Response Rincon Family Services Riveredge Hospital / Streamwood Behavioral Healthcare System The Anti-Cruelty Society The Anti-Defamation League The Grief Compass The Nora Project The Peace Exchange The Schools Group Travis Manion Foundation Troy Sandidge, Motivational Speaker UCAN University of Illinois Extension Viva la Revolución White Sox Willow House YWCA Metropolitan Chicago COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS 826CHI Abrahamic Center for Cultural Education (ACCE) Adler Planetarium American Writers Museum Argonne National Laboratory Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago Bottom Line Chicago Area Health Education Center Chicago Student Invention Convention CircEsteem Cook County Farm Bureau Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE) Economic Awareness Council First Book FUSE Future Founders Foundation Girls Who Code HEART Illinois Green Alliance Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center Illinois Safe Schools Alliance Program of PHIMC Junior Achievement Kids First Chicago LeadersUp
COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS (CONTINUED) Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Multiplying Good Open Books Operation HOPE, Inc. Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Pro Football Hall of Fame Pulitzer Center Shedd Aquarium The Actuarial Foundation Thirst Project Tutoring Chicago University of Chicago Admissions Working In The Schools (WITS) FUNDAMENTAL NEEDS A Just Harvest Adidas and Ninja Alice’s Kids Blessings in a Backpack Bullying Prevention Awareness 365 Chicago Community Oral Health Forum Comp-U-Dopt Cradles to Crayons Delta Dental of Illinois Her Drive, Co. Jackson Financial SparkShop The Period Collective The Simple Good HEALTH AND WELLNESS Ageless Eye Care American Heart Association Candor Health Education Caron Treatment Centers CDPH - Tropical Optical Chicago Community Oral Health Forum Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center Chicago Department of Transportation Chicago Police Department Chicago Run Chicago Women’s Health Center Common Threads CommunityHealth Cook County Farm Bureau Delta Dental of Illinois Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago Erie Family Health Center Fit Kids Girls in the Game Global Project Hope Imagination Theater Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Mobile Care Chicago Oak Park River Forest Infant Welfare Society Pilot Light Princeton Vision Clinic Resilience Respiratory Health Association Response Rush University Medical Center St. Bernard Hospital The Anti-Cruelty Society Vision Service Plan YWCA Metropolitan Chicago In 2020-21, community partners shared a mix of live-virtual and pre-recorded programming with schools so that even in remote learning, students could access the resources they needed. CIS partner The Peace Exchange appears above, and CIS partner Guitars Over Guns appears below.
“Partnerships are rooted in relationships. Relationships are built on trust. CIS of Chicago understands this; it is the foundation of our work. We know how valuable having a trusted partner is, one that you can rely on to answer your call, one that you can be confident hears you and advocates for you, one that will be responsive to your changing needs and evolving priorities. Having meaningful partnerships means that you don’t have to face challenges alone, and with CIS of Chicago by your side, you can be assured that you won’t have to.” —Robin Koelsch, Senior Director of Partnerships
Looking Back: A Year Unlike Any Other The pandemic upended the lives of Chicago students and their families. The school year started with school buildings closed, and students were cut off from their peers and school support systems. When school buildings reopened, students had to adjust to hybrid learning and reacclimate to the classroom. Communities In Schools of Chicago had to pivot as well. In 2020-21, we joined our school and community partners in innovating the way we supported students. We are proud of the impact we accomplished in this extraordinary year. In the 2020-21 school year, our team’s efforts, in collaboration with 149 community partners, led to: 47,369 students supported at 175 Chicago Public Schools. 1,358 programs and services connected. 11,365 students and families receiving essential needs items. At our 30 Intensive Program school sites last year, CIS of Chicago Student Supports Managers provided counseling, goal-setting, and social-emotional skill-building to: 803 targeted students. 99 percent of these students graduated or were promoted to the next grade. Fewer than one percent dropped out.
Our Goals for 2021-22 65,000 1,350 Chicago Students This year, our organization will help 65,000 Chicago public-school students unlock their potential and stay on the path to graduation. Students Of the 65,000 students that CIS serves, 1,350 will receive intensive support and counseling provided by a CIS Student Supports Manager. 95% of seniors will graduate on time and 95% of K-11 students will be promoted to the next grade. 1,180 175 175 Connected Services School Partners Community Partners Our Partnership Team will collaborate with school leaders across the city to connect 1,180 support programs and services to students. CIS School Partnership Specialists will support 175 schools in understanding the types of supports their students need and have access to through CIS. CIS Community Partnership Specialists will connect our 175 community partners with schools needing their programs and services. These services are provided by our strong network of community partners. Programs are provided at no cost to schools.
In the Words of Our Students and Partners “Today we were talking about kindness, and I just want to let you know how much I appreciate you for your positive thoughts and actions. Thank you for giving me motivation through hard moments.” — Eighth-grade student to their CIS of Chicago Student Supports Manager “You are the first person I have ever met with so much brightness, and you bring that and light up the whole school. I’m so glad I have someone in this school who I can TRUST with my whole heart.” — Eighth-grade student to their CIS of Chicago Student Supports Manager “I could have not made it through this year if it was not for you pushing me, checking in, and reminding me of MY WHY. Thank you, and I truly appreciate you!” — Guardian to their young person’s CIS of Chicago Student Supports Manager “CIS of Chicago has made a significant difference in helping to connect our programming to schools that are often looking for opportunities and experiences that we can provide, but just are unaware of the possibilities. We have had many amazing school partnerships over the years as a result of connections made through CIS of Chicago.” — Lyric Opera of Chicago, a CIS community partner “I am grateful for CIS of Chicago. The resources are greatly needed and are invaluable. My CIS School Partnership Specialist is pleasant, efficient, and effective. CIS is a game changer for my school community. THANK YOU SO MUCH.” — Counselor of a South Side Elementary School
In the Words of Our Principals “Our Student Supports Manager has brought her whole self to the role. She shares her culture, passions, and talents with the school on a daily basis. During Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month, she taught the fourth graders different forms of martial arts, and it was awesome. She has lent her vocals and dance skills to our schoolwide video for the last two years. She is a crucial part of our school community.” “CIS is a great opportunity for my school to connect with resources in various content areas to support our students and families.” — Assistant Principal of a North Side Elementary School “I truly feel fortunate to have the CIS partnership. It has enriched our community and provides another avenue for us to improve academic achievement.” — Principal of a West Side Elementary School — Principal of a Southeast Side Elementary School “Our Student Supports Manager is a tremendous support to the students at our school. Students regularly seek her out for support when they have problems or just need someone to talk to. It’s supports like these that really help the entire school community and the families and students that need it most.” — Principal of a South Side High School “Students were provided opportunities and services that they would not normally have had access. Healthcare, eye glasses, art and cultural experiences. just a great resource and support system.” — Principal of a Lower West Side Elementary School One CIS of Chicago Student Supports Manager worked with middle school students on brainstorming traits of a good friend. The students created a collective mural together displaying these words, pictured above.
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