Communities In Schools of Greater Tarrant County Inc.

CIS provides intensive, ongoing case management directly inside local schools for students identified as most at-risk of someday dropping out, due to a variety of barriers they and their families face. By doing in-home visits and in-depth needs assessments, our social workers provide individualized case management plans, connecting students and their families with local services and resources they need for the student to be well-supported and to achieve academic success.

CIS currently provides intensive case management to more than 5,000 at-risk, pre-K through 12th-grade students in 71 schools in 11 different area school districts. Our ability to expand the CIS case management program into additional campuses depends entirely on our ability to re-raise the funds necessary to sustain our existing sites, and raise enough additional funds to accept new schools.

CIS social workers are housed on a full-time basis within each of these schools during the academic year, providing ongoing, intensive case management support for each school's at-risk student population. The caseload for each social worker is 88-90 students per campus.

In addition to case management support, CIS places licensed clinical social workers on select school campuses to address the mental health needs of students through one-on-one counseling services and mental health awareness trainings and tools for educators.

Our Needs

Communities In Schools is a critical resource Greater Tarrant County area families families need. During the fall 2022 school year, CIS Social workers will be in schools in person in school districts that are providing in person learning and they will continue to connect with at-risk students and families by phone and virtual visit as needed in schools where virtual learning is in place. They will keep them connected to the resources they need now more than ever. And during this time when everyone's mental health is being tested, Tele-therapy continues to deliver mental health counseling services to those who need it most.

Here's an example of what your dollars can do to help CIS help those who need it most

$10- provides 1 student with a meal bag for either Thanksgiving or Winter Break.
$25- provides 1 student with school supplies for the year.
$50- provides 20 students snacks for 1 week.
$100- provides 10 students with a meal bag for either Thanksgiving or Winter Break.
$250- provides 10 students with school supplies for the year.
$500- provides intensive case-management services for 1 student for the school year.
$1000- Provides intensive case-management services for 2 students for the school year.
$1,500- Provides Mental Health Supports to 1 student for the school year.