NCJ Number
167186
Date Published
Unknown
Length
46 pages
Annotation
Cities in Schools (CIS) is the country's largest dropout prevention network; it links youth at risk of dropping out of school with the human services they need by relocating service providers into the schools and freeing the teachers to focus on helping students learn.
Abstract
CIS began in 1960. It originated in the finding that the dropout problem is tied to and perpetuated by the fragmentation of the health and human services intended for students and their families. It now has a headquarters and six regional offices. Local CIS programs are independently incorporated, nonprofit public-private partnership organizations. Each program has three elements: a local nonprofit corporation; a management team led by an executive director; and a new education, health, and human services delivery system that repositions or reassigns the community's service resources. Each program adapts the CIS process to its own. The partnerships address issues such as school attendance, literacy, job preparedness, adolescent pregnancy, alcohol and other drug abuse, low self-esteem, adolescent suicide, suppressed creativity, and school violence. Figures, photographs, list of programs and board members, list of contributors, and other background information