Communities in Schools of Richmond

Communities in Schools surrounds students with a community of support empowering them to stay in school and succeed in life. Communities in Schools in Richmond brings the integrated student support model to Schools by doing the following:-partners with school districts to identify wehre cis can have the greatest impact-conducts an assessment at the school level to determine annual needs-hires, trains and assigns a site coordinator to a school-partners with the school districts, local agencies, businesses and foundations to garner support for the organization and its work-mobilizes community resources to address academic and nonacademic barriers-evaluates work at all levels to ensure progress is made and goals are met with support from partners and volunteers, cis offers three tiers of support to the Schools, families, and individual students:tier 1 - prevention and enrichment for whole schoolstier 2 - collaborative group work for students with common needstier 3 - one-to-one intervention