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Causes: Community & Neighborhood Development, Economic Development
Mission: The mission of communities in schools southeast texas is to surround students
Programs: Drop-out prevention: develop partnerships, public and private, on elementary, middle, and secondary campuses to aid at-risk students with such critical issues as school attendance, literacy, job preparedness, teen pregnancy, and drug and alcohol abuse. The organization provided comprehensive case management services to 2,099 at-risk students on 23 campuses during the year ended august 31, 2017. These students received over 38,000 hours of services targeted to each student's area of need (such as behavior, academics, attendance, etc). As a result of these services 99% of the case managed students remained in school with 98% being promoted to the next grade in addition to students who receive individualized services, communities in schools offers school-wide services such as supply distribution, health fairs, presentations on bullying, and crisis counseling that are available to all students. Communities in schools has implemented a college and career program that provides students with information about college and career opportunities and a continuum of services from their junior or senior year of high school through college.