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CIS school-based Social Workers build personal, trusting, long-term relationships with the youth they serve. Therefore, CIS Social Workers and after school staff also serve as mentors, and in collaboration with Big Brothers Big Sisters mentors and Team Fort Worth mentors, school-based mentoring services were provided for over 3,050 students last year. |
From Stressed to Success In As Little As One Hour A Week
The School-Based Formula for Success
Communities In Schools supervises or provides directly, a total of 2,500 student/adult mentoring relationships each year ----where students are ---- in schools.
Making a Difference
The mentoring relationship takes many forms but has one mission: To make a positive difference in the lives of students through one-to-one friendships. Based on these trusting relationships, CIS school-based Social Workers help students to stay in school, help them to define and achieve their goals, and enhance their leadership and life skills.
Students with school-based mentors learn to trust adults, show improved self-esteem and confidence, have better attitudes about school, are more likely to stay in school, and tend to have a more concrete vision of their own future.
What You Can Do
- Become A Mentor or Tutor A Student. Just one hour a week makes a difference.
- Lend Your Talents To An After School Activity.
- Start An Employee Mentoring Program in your company. Support Mentoring Partnerships through grants, sponsorships, and donations making CIS Mentoring Programs available to additional students and schools.
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