Communities In Schools (CIS) of is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting high school graduation in Chicago.

In the 2019-20 school year, our team positively impacted the lives of 59,254 students, surrounding them with a community of support and empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

CIS of Chicago works in schools and beyond. We do whatever it takes to make sure that students and school communities have the resources they need to succeed.

We do not do this work alone. We do it in partnership with the members of every school community we serve because no one has a greater stake in our students’ success than they do.

2020 posed many challenges to our students and families, from the COVID-19 pandemic to racial injustice and economic uncertainty, and our team rose to these challenges.

Thanks to our multifaceted work with schools, administrators, and community partners, students are healthier, their lives are enriched, and they are better equipped to handle conflicts and make healthy decisions that support their learning – and ultimately – their graduation. Every Student Must Graduate

Student dropout is a process, During 2020-21, our organization • Our Intensive Program Based on recent trends, not an event. It can start as early will ensure that more than 50,000 embeds a master’s level it’s reasonable to expect as elementary school, when a Chicago Public Schools (CPS) professional in 30 of the that more than 4,000 of this child is bullied. It can begin in students receive the support 175 school communities year’s CPS ninth graders adolescence, when a student’s they need to learn, stay engaged to provide supportive will not graduate within ebbing self-esteem undercuts in school, and succeed in life. guidance, goal-setting, five years. their confidence to learn. It can and other interventions to emerge after a traumatic event We carry out our work through targeted students who are 17.5% – the death of a loved one, the two core programs – both of off-track in their attendance, sudden loss of a parent’s job, which we have successfully behavior, and grades. or even the onset of a global adapted during the remote pandemic – making it hard for a learning period (implemented Research shows that when 82.5% student to maintain good by Chicago Public Schools in elementary and high school attendance and grades. If timely response to COVID-19). students receive essential The five-year high school support is not provided, even the supports like these, they do graduation rate in Chicago is most tenacious student can be • Our Partnership better in math and reading and now 82.5 percent for all diverted from the path to high Program links our 175 are more likely to graduate from students. However, that rate is school graduation and school partners with a range high school prepared for further not even across all school post-secondary success. of no-cost programs in arts life success. populations. enrichment, behavioral and Communities In Schools of mental health, college and CIS of Chicago prioritizes working in Chicago empowers students career readiness, and communities where students are more likely to be among those struggling to to stay in school and graduate. physical health and graduate within five years. wellness. In the 2020-21 school year, we are working with 175 school partners, including:

• 145 Partnership Program sites, where our team collaborates with CPS staff to coordinate community partner programs and services directly to students, and

• 30 Intensive Program sites, where a full-time CIS of Chicago Student Supports Manager is embedded to support students, families, and the entire school community.

Programs and intensive support will be provided by phone, via online platforms, or in-person, depending upon school district policies regarding remote learning instruction and attendance guidelines related to the COVID-19 pandemic. By the Numbers

50,000 175 150 30 Chicago School Community Student Supports Students Partners Partners Managers

In 2020-21, our CIS of Chicago works with These partners include These master’s level organization will support school leaders across the nonprofits, corporations, professionals work in 50,000 Chicago city to connect needed cultural institutions, social schools and beyond to public school students. support programs and service agencies, and provide intensive support 1,425 of these students services, provided by a caring individuals. Our team to students struggling with will benefit from intensive strong network of provides partners with academics, attendance, support and counseling community partners. professional development behavior, or provided by a CIS of We assess school priorities and coordinates with them social-emotional learning Chicago team member. and then meet those needs to provide programs and challenges. with community partner other resources to schools services. at no cost. In June 2020, 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.

• 84 percent reported that the services that CIS of Chicago connects helps students stay on track academically.

Of the students we have supported with ongoing intensive support since 2009, fewer than 1 percent dropped out.

An estimated 97 percent either graduated or were promoted to the next grade. Our Theory of Change

SHORT-TERM LONG-TERM ASPIRATIONAL WHAT WE DO HOW WE DO IT OUTCOMES OUTCOMES VISION

Provide essential Partnership Program: Develop social, Reduce supports according to Connect essential emotional, and dropout rate student need services and programs academic competencies

Every public school student in Chicago graduates from high school prepared to succeed Improve attendance, Develop student Intensive Program: behavior, coursework, Increase relationships with Directly support students proficiency, and grade graduation rate caring adults with high need promotion School Partners 2020-21

Acero Charter Schools— Willa Cather Elementary School John F. Eberhart Elementary Harold Washington Elementary George Leland Elementary School Brighton Park Elementary Thomas Chalmers Specialty School School Leslie Lewis Elementary School School Elementary School Richard Edwards Elementary School Helga A. Haugan Elementary School Arthur A. Libby Elementary School Acero Charter Schools—Rufino Salmon P. Chase Elementary School Erie Elementary Charter School Stephen K. Hayt Elementary Little Village Academy Tamayo Cesar E. Chavez Multicultural Edward Everett Elementary School School Alain Locke Charter Academy Acero Charter Schools—Sor Juana Academic Center Evergreen Academy Middle School Helen M. Hefferan Elementary Horace Mann Elementary Inés de la Cruz Chicago Collegiate Charter School Michael Faraday Elementary School School School Jane Addams Elementary School Walter S. Christopher School David G. Farragut Career High Charles R. Henderson Elementary John L. Marsh Elementary Ariel Community Academy CICS Ralph Ellison High School School School School Philip D. Armour Elementary School CICS West Belden Elementary Eugene Field Elementary School Patrick Henry Elementary School Stephen T. YCCS Association House High School Edwin G. Foreman College and Charles N. Holden Elementary Benjamin E. Mays Elementary School* Claremont Academy Elementary Career Academy School Academy Mariano Azuela Elementary School School Charles Evans Hughes Elementary George B. McClellan Elementary John Barry Elementary School Michele Clark Academic Stephen F. Gale Community School School Beasley Academic Center Preparatory High School Academy Washington Irving Elementary Genevieve Melody Elementary Beethoven Elementary School Henry Clay Elementary School Galileo Scholastic Academy School School Hiram H. Belding Elementary School Grover Cleveland Elementary School Matthew Gallistel Elementary Scott Joplin Elementary School Arnold Mireles Elementary Daniel Boone Elementary School Johnnie Colemon Academy Language Academy Jordan Community School Academy Bowen High School Columbia Explorers Academy Marcus Moziah Garvey Elementary Joseph Jungman Elementary School Ellen Mitchell Elementary School Norman Bridge Elementary School Christopher Columbus Elementary School Thomas Kelly College Preparatory Irvin C. Mollison Elementary School Orville T. Bright Elementary School School George Washington Elementary High School Donald Morrill Math & Science William H. Brown Math & Science Daniel J. Corkery Elementary School School Joshua D. Kershaw Elementary Elementary School Magnet School Courtenay Elementary Language George Washington High School John B. Murphy Elementary School Charles S. Brownell Elementary Arts Center School Joyce Kilmer Elementary School New Sullivan Elementary School School Crown Community Academy J.W. von Goethe Elementary School Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy Nicholson Technology Academy Milton Brunson Math and Science Charles R. Darwin Elementary Alexander Graham Elementary of Social Justice William P. Nixon Elementary Specialty School School School John H. Kinzie Elementary School School Burnham/Anthony Mathematics & Nathan S. Davis Elementary School Nathanael Greene Elementary Rudyard Kipling Elementary School Alfred Nobel Elementary School Science Academy Oscar DePriest Elementary School School Anna R. Langford Community The Ogden International School of Daniel R. Cameron Elementary Everett McKinley Dirksen Robert L. Grimes Elementary School Academy Chicago – Jenner Campus School Elementary School Virgil Grissom Elementary School LEARN Charter School Roman Ogden International High School* Marvin Camras Elementary School Arthur Dixon Elementary School Frank W. Gunsaulus Scholastic Butler Campus James Otis World Language Lázaro Cárdenas Elementary James R. Doolittle, Jr. Academy LEARN Charter Excel Campus Academy School Elementary School John C. Haines Elementary School Richard Henry Lee Elementary John Palmer Elementary School Rachel Carson Elementary School John B. Drake Elementary School Nathan Hale Elementary School School Louis Pasteur Elementary School Catalyst Circle Rock Charter W.E.B. DuBois Elementary School John H. Hamline Elementary School Legacy Charter School Ferdinand Peck Elementary School School Hanson Park Elementary School Perspectives Charter–Rodney D. John Spry Community School Joslin Campus Charles P. Steinmetz Academic Perspectives Charter Math and Centre Science Academy High School Adlai E. Stevenson Elementary Perspectives Charter Leadership School Academy High School Stone Scholastic Academy Perspectives Charter High School of Harriet Beecher Stowe Dual Technology Language School Phoenix Military Academy High George B. Swift Specialty School School Douglas Taylor Elementary School Brian Piccolo School of Excellence Telpochcalli Elementary School Pilsen Community Academy George W. Tilton Elementary School Adam Clayton Powell Paideia Enrico Tonti Elementary School Community Academy Elementary Turner-Drew Language Academy School Uplift Community High School A. Philip Randolph Elementary Jacqueline Vaughn School Occupational High School William Claude Reavis Elementary Alessandro Volta Elementary School School Carl Von Linne Elementary School Theodore Roosevelt High School John A. Walsh Elementary School Rowe Elementary School James Ward Elementary School Martha Ruggles Elementary School Daniel Webster Elementary Ryder Math and Science Specialty School School Oliver S. Westcott Elementary Albert R. Sabin Magnet School School Edward E. Sadlowski Elementary John Whistler Elementary School School Edward H. White Career Academy Socorro Sandoval Elementary School Maria Saucedo Elementary Scholastic Academy Sidney Sawyer School Mark Sheridan Math and Science *Indicates schools that have initiated Academy partnership with CIS of Chicago in Sherman School of Excellence 2020-21. Jesse Sherwood Elementary School John D. Shoop Math-Science Bolded font indicates an Intensive Technical Academy Elementary Program site. School Mark T. Skinner Elementary School John M. Smyth Elementary School Eric Solorio Academy High School South Loop Elementary School Southside Occupational High School In the 2019-20 school year, we worked with 165 community partners whose impact led to:

• 59,254 students supported

• 996 programs connected to CPS schools across Chicago

• 3,966 students and families received basic needs items

Our Student Supports Managers provided counseling, goal-setting, and social-emotional skill-building to 1,317 students at our Intensive Program school sites.

99 percent of these students graduated or were promoted to the next grade. NONE dropped out. Community Partners 2019-20

CIS of Chicago works ARTS Poetry Foundation Chicago Police Department COLLEGE AND with a deep network Pro Football Hall of Fame* Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute’s ENRICHMENT Reva and David Logan Center for Child Grief Services Program CAREER of nonprofits, cultural the Arts Chiro One Wellness Centers READINESS institutions, social Abrahamic Center for Cultural Shift Englewood Youth Orchestra Christopher House Education Civic Leadership Foundation* 826CHI service agencies, SkyART Cook County State’s Attorney AARP Experience Corps American Writers Museum* Smart Museum of Art Detective Lester Rodgers and individuals from Abrahamic Center for Cultural Art Encounter Steppenwolf Theatre Company Erika’s Lighthouse* Education across Chicagoland. Art Institute of Chicago Storycatchers Theatre Escape Artistry American Writers Museum* The Major Lift* Free Lunch Academy Big Brothers Big Sisters of Chicago Architecture Center The Negaunee Music Institute at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & We call these Metropolitan Chicago Chicago Children’s Theatre Chicago Symphony Orchestra Education Center Bottom Line* organizations our Chicago Humanities Festival The Theatre School at DePaul* Insight Project for Kids Capital One Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Wellness for Everyone K.W.O.E. Foundation community partners. Career Speaker Series Chicago Opera Theater Lutheran Social Services of Illinois* Chicago Area Health Education These partners will Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra Mujeres Latinas en Acción* Center at Health and Medicine Cinema/Chicago – Chicago NAMI Chicago collaborate with our Policy Research Group* International Film Festival BEHAVIORAL AND Nancy Gardner, LCSW organization this Chicago Blackhawks* Girls Rock! Chicago* National Indo-American Museum* MENTAL HEALTH Chicago Children’s Museum year — in person and * Positive Coaching Alliance Guitars Over Guns Organization Chicago Fire online, depending on African American Family Research Resilience Ignition Community Glass ChickTech Institute Sandie Johnson, LCSW school attendance International Music Foundation Cook County Farm Bureau All For Kidz Selah Freedom Jaclyn Silverman* Credit Abuse Resistance Education guidelines in Between Friends The Anti-Defamation League Jazz at Lincoln Center (CARE)* Bulldog Solution, Inc. The Nora Project* response to the DuSable Museum of African Bullying Prevention Awareness 365 The Peace Exchange American History pandemic — to help Care2Prevent at the University of The Schools Group Marwen East Village Youth Program Chicago Travis Manion Foundation empower 50,000 CPS Museum of Contemporary Art Field Museum Catholic Charities UCAN students to stay on National Museum of Mexican Art Field Trip Factory Chicago Alliance Against Sexual University of Illinois Extension National Veterans Art Museum Future Founders Foundation the path to Exploitation White Sox North Shore Center for the Girl Up* Chicago Behavioral Hospital* Willow House graduation. Performing Arts* Girls Who Code Chicago Chess Foundation* YWCA Metropolitan Chicago Northlight Theatre Illinois Green Alliance* Chicago Children’s Center for Old Town School of Folk Music Behavioral Health Oriental Institute Continued “Partnerships build community and strengthen relationships. They make our organization stronger and more equipped to face challenges.

During the difficulties that arose during the last year, the Partnership Program team leaned into our determination and unrelenting perseverance, reminding ourselves that when things get hard, we get to be there for students, for schools, and for our community partners.

Rising to meet the recent challenges and readying for what’s next is what our team does — and will always do — for students in Chicago.”

—Robin Koelsch, Senior Director of Partnerships Illinois Holocaust Museum & Chicago Run* Education Center Chicago Women’s Health Center Illinois Safe Schools Alliance of Common Threads PHIMC CommunityHealth International Children’s Media ConnecTeen* Center Cook County Farm Bureau Junior Achievement Delta Dental of Illinois Kids First Chicago Erie Family Health Center LIFT – Chicago* Field Trip Factory Literacy Works Girls in the Game Math Motivators Green City Market and the Lincoln Metropolitan Water Reclamation Park Zoo District of Greater Chicago Haymarket Center Museum of Science and Industry Health Squad North Park Village Nature Center Illinois Liquor Control Commission Northerly Island Illinois Safe Schools Alliance of Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum PHIMC Richard J. Daley College* Imagination Theater Shedd Aquarium LensCrafters SitStayRead Mobile Care Chicago SparkShop* Norwegian American Hospital StoryBus Planned Parenthood of Illinois University of Chicago Basketball* Princeton Vision Clinic US Army Corps of Engineers Resilience White Sox Respiratory Health Association Working In The Schools (WITS) Response for Teens Robert Crown Centers for Health Education PHYSICAL HEALTH Selah Freedom AND WELLNESS St. Bernard Hospital The Oral Health Forum Advocate Children’s Hospital Tropical Optical Ageless Eyecare UIC College of Dentistry American Red Cross of Greater University of Illinois Extension Chicago Vision Service Plan ASAP Visionworks Big Green Wellness for Everyone CDPH – Immunization Program YWCA Metropolitan Chicago Chicago Blackhawks* Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center Chicago Department of *Partners new to the CIS of Chicago Transportation network in 2019-20. Chicago Fire Department Chicago Police Department “Our team has always innovated to support students. When the pandemic hit in March, we shifted to an even higher gear. Our Intensive Program team quickly adapted its one-on-one work with students to online platforms and built out an array of essential new processes to support its work. Our Partnership Program team converted its trainings for schools and community partners to web-based events and worked with our program providers to navigate the new virtual schoolscape.

And in response to the economic fallout from the pandemic, which has hit hard many of the communities we serve, our entire organization has rallied to help our students and families access essential needs items, like school supplies, health and hygiene products, and direct cash assistance.”

—B.E. St. John, Chief Innovation and Communications Officer Our Expected Impact in 2020-21

• 50,000 students supported • 1,425 targeted students case-managed • 95%+ of seniors graduate on time

• 900 connected services • 1,350 from Intensive Partner • 95%+ of K-11 students promoted to schools the next grade • 175 school partners • 75 from the Freshmen Rising • 150 community partners initiative*

*CIS of Chicago currently embeds seven Student Supports Managers in high schools.

In 2020-21, our team is increasing its support for incoming high school students by launching a new Freshmen Rising initiative. Students enrolled in the initiative will receive ongoing guidance and structured lessons to build their social-emotional learning skills.

Research shows that students who are academically successful in ninth grade are much more likely to graduate on time. cisofchicago.org | 312.829.2475 815 W. Van Buren Street, Suite 300 Chicago, IL 60607