Cool Down Club, a mental health monthly group, is wrapping up its first year at Stewart’s Creek Elementary and has been fun and educational for many students. Throughout the year, the club grew from only 11 students to 35 students and was run by the CIS Site Coordinator, with the support of teachers as volunteers. […]

May 6, 2019 is National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day! At Communities In Schools of North Texas, we know that mental health is a critical component of student wellness and academic achievement. In fact, Mental Health America (2016) says that “mental health and learning are deeply interwoven. The Healthy Schools Campaign in 2017 even said […]

Sadik, a 5th grader at Rivera Elementary in Denton, TX, has been participating in CIS for the past year. This year he was a part of our 5th grade boys Lunch with a Leader group. Sadik was originally selected for this group by his teachers to help him come out of his shell and use […]

Gabriella Anahi Salazar is the 2019 Calhoun Middle School Communities In Schools of North Texas Student of the Year! She has participated in CIS for the past three years. Bella went from a student that was once kicked out of the Girls Operating As Leaders (GOAL) soccer club for fighting as a 6th grader to […]

In February, I got a call from one of our counselors asking me to meet a new student to Lewisville High School – Killough Campus. I walked in to her office and met a shy student named Flor, a sophomore, who had just moved to Lewisville from Austin. Flor moved here to live with her […]

The majority of student we case manage at Lake Dallas Middle School are targeted for Academics. At times it might seem impossible for one Site Coordinator to break themselves into 100 pieces and be able to serve all of the students on our caseload. Thankfully we do not have to do it alone. We have […]

On our first day back from Spring Break at Evers Park Elementary in Denton, TX, Ethan was feeling a little blue. He was frustrated to attend the Communities In Schools Afterschool Center on Education (ACE) program. He was frustrated because he was acting in a “disappointing” manner to me. I have known Ethan, a first […]

Jeramiah is a smart and funny kid at Chisholm Trail Middle School who had not seen academics as an important part of his life. For as long as I’ve known him, his grades were simply not meaningful to him. He shrugged off bad grades and focused instead on video games, Star Wars, and comics. I knew […]