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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.
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.
Community Partnership Schools address students’ holistic needs, recognizing their unique challenges – and opportunities. Many schools offer:
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.
Community Partnership School successes include:
A 2019-20 snapshot of Community Partnership Schools where CHS is a core partner.
General Overview: CHS Community Partnership Schools
Learn more about the Four Pillars of Success
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
I didn’t know what an engineer was until I was in college. I knew what a nurse did, because my mom was a nurse. It wasn’t until college that I had access to the worlds beyond that of my home or the small town I grew up in. I’m not alone. Throughout Florida, thousands of […]
Read MoreHow businesses leverage community partnerships to drive corporate growth By: Jarvis Wheeler, MSW, MPA I’m a Lucky Goat Coffee guy – and I go out of my way to invite others to become Lucky Goat loyalists. It’s not hard to do … when a business has a quality product and makes the community a better […]
Read More“So what does the Community Partnership program do here at our school?” Bethany Groves, principal of Webster Elementary School, prompted a class of third-graders on Tuesday afternoon. “Gives us socks and shoes,” answered one boy. “We get food,” another student said. “Clothes,” one girl volunteered. Webster Elementary School and South Woods Elementary School have both […]
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