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You can provide opportunities for educational and lifetime success, breaking generational chains of poverty. Join the Community Partnership Schools movement and transform the future for generations.
Learn MoreCommunity Partnership Schools are proven to improve student behavior, increase academic gains and graduation rates, and enhance parental involvement.
Through Community Partnership Schools, children find hope and opportunities. Simply put: they learn how to dream again.
Children's Home Society of Florida serves more than 19,000 students in 20 Community Partnership Schools from Miami to Pensacola.
LEARN MORENo two Community Partnership Schools are exactly alike – each centers on unique community needs to allow students to focus on their education and future success.
Community Partnership Schools help build brighter futures for students, families and communities.
Community Partnership Schools offer equitable opportunities - both inside and outside of the classroom - for all students.
Through a long-term partnership with the school district, a college or university, and a health care provider, CHS leads community collaboration to bring resources and opportunities to students and families.
Thousands of Florida students arrive to school each day with more than a backpack – they carry baggage beyond their years: hunger, homelessness, poverty, exposure to violence, mental health struggles, inadequate health care and more. They carry so much weight that they simply cannot focus on their education.
Often times, these students and their families simply lack access to the opportunities their neighbors and peers may have. For these students, it’s not about raising the ceiling — it’s about raising the ground floor.
No two Community Partnership Schools are exactly alike – each centers on unique community needs to allow students to focus on their education and future success. But all share a similar model – one with proven methods for accountability and outcomes.
A partnership among Children’s Home Society of Florida, the University of Central Florida and Orange County Public Schools brought the successful Community Partnership School model to Florida. Florida’s first Community Partnership School – Evans Community Partnership School – officially opened at Evans High School in Orlando on October 13, 2012.
CHS is a core partner in 27 out of 36 Community Partnership Schools in Florida — more than any other entity in the state.
A 2021-2022 snapshot of Community Partnership Schools where CHS is a core partner
Community Partnership Schools are the way through COVID-19 and into the future. Read more about the model for hope in The Florida Times-Union.
Curious what 5 years of impact in a Community Partnership School looks like? Watch as WEAR TV celebrates the continued academic and life success at C.A. Weis Elementary.
Transforming lives, futures and communities
In a matter of minutes, Maria and her 7 children were catapulted into crises. A devastating fire destroyed their home and nearly everything they owned. “We were left with nothing – we lost our home, we had nowhere to live.” The family of 8 was now facing homelessness and Maria – a single mom who […]
Read MoreMaddie had no idea that she was fighting a potentially life-threatening ear infection when she was holding a water bottle against her ear during a test to soothe the pain. But it caught her high school teacher’s attention enough to contact the community partnership school team. Within minutes, the Nurse Practitioner saw something was severely […]
Read MoreAfter several years without health insurance, Brianna developed major dental issues, including severe tooth decay on 7 permanent teeth. Brianna lived with her grandmother and had very little resources to cover additional expenses or pay for healthcare. The pain and embarrassment Brianna was experiencing became so significant, she refused to speak at school. It impacted […]
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