City Connects and Rosie’s Place: forging new ways to reach families
City Connects works hard to get the right service to the right child at the right time — and we also help […]
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Leaping over language barriers at the Kenny School
“We’ve been talking a lot about how our parent council is great, but not reflective of our school population,” Danielle Morrissey says. […]
City Connects students in Salem give back to their community
Our approach of connecting students to the right services at the right time also creates opportunities for students to give back to […]
Community partner breakfast in Minnesota: eat, play, connect
City Connects is growing in Minnesota. But the program isn’t just getting bigger — serving over 2,000 students across 10 schools with […]
City Connects helps a community school in the Bronx Shine A Light
Community School 211, a pre-K to eighth grade school in the Bronx run by the Children’s Aid Society, has woven City Connects […]
Improving educational opportunity for all students
In a new OpEd in CommonWealth magazine — “We need a holistic approach to improving student outcomes” — Joan Wasser Gish looks at […]
Customizing services by building trust with families
At City Connects, we don’t just connect students to services, we connect them to a customized set of services and enrichment opportunities […]
A new research agenda: Integrated Student Support
City Connects makes connections. We connect students and their families to tailored sets of resources. We connect schools to an array of […]
Meeting life’s toughest challenges with a network of support
In the high-poverty communities we serve, many of our students experience challenges and traumas, which is why our support of their healthy […]
Getting Better
To get better at what we do, we look at data and listen to feedback. In our model, coordinators in each school […]