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When 6-year-old Samuel first attended his Communities In Schools after-school program, Director Cheryl Britt, recalls that he struggled to stay on task. “Samuel couldn’t stay in his seat long enough to complete a simple project.” After speaking with his mom, Cheryl learned that Samuel had recently lost his brother in a traffic accident, and was struggling to focus in school. Cheryl paired Samuel with Jacob, a mentoring volunteer. Jacob worked one-on-one with Samuel to help him complete his projects, stay on task, and engage with other students. "To see Jacob's patience with Samuel is amazing," says Cheryl. Jacob says he enjoys working with Samuel, and, “can definitely see a change. He interacts better with his peers and is able to stay focused on his work."
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Food for Teresa

Twelve year old Teresa, a student at a local Spokane middle school, was a regular participant in Communities in Schools’ after school programs, including the Friday backpack of food program.  The school’s CIS site coordinator began noticing that Teresa looked malnourished and lethargic.  Having already established a level of trust with Teresa, the CIS site coordinator gently questioned her and learned that she hadn’t been eating.  Teresa’s father was purchasing food just once a month.  By month’s end, there was no food left to feed Teresa or her toddler sister.  In addition to acting as her young sister’s caregiver, Teresa had been giving up her share of the food to her sister and eating little to nothing herself.  Communities in Schools stepped in to provide extra food for the family to help sustain them through the latter parts of the month.  Stories like this are commonplace around Spokane-area schools. The trusting and caring relationships between our site coordinators and students helps ensure that fewer local kids are going hungry.  At Communities in Schools, we’ll do whatever it Takes to help a child succeed.

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Communities In Schools of Spokane County is leading the charge to keep kids in school. By providing coordinators at targeted schools we are getting the right kids the right services at the right time. The site coordinator’s job is to collaborate with community agencies to bring services to kids. Communities In Schools provides the vital link between the school and the community. During the 2009-2010 school year we had coordinators at 4 schools, and we NOW have site coordinators placed in 6 schools: Glover, Chase, Cheney and Shaw Middle Schools, Sheridan Elementary and Lewis and Clark High School.

 

Communities In Schools is leading a county wide effort to pilot a school-based health center in the fall of 2011.  To learn more about this initiative please visit www.schoolhealthcaresc.org.

 

 

 

 

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Rebecca Moore, Site Coordinator, Leading after school program.

 

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