The Consortium on Trauma Illness and Grief in Schools (TIG) has invested 20 years in increasing trauma-sensitive practices, procedures and policies in K-12 Education settings. Given CCSI’s longstanding relationships working with school districts through TIG, many of these districts already had a strong foundation of knowledge and experience in crisis response. However, with the complex and truly unprecedented needs of this time with the two pandemics of COVID and systemic racism happening simultaneously, CCSI quickly recognized that schools would need additional support.  

The Student Coalition on Race and Equity (SCORE) was recently awarded a New York Attorney General Triple C Award, which recognizes the courage, character, and commitment of New York State’s outstanding students. SCORE is an initiative that accesses the talent and skills of Syracuse City School District (SCSD) students to eliminate racism in their community, starting in their own school district. Since August 2020, the SCORE leaders conducted the 3 part workshop series that covered Black history, implicit bias, and white privilege for over 2000 SCSD staff and community partners. Watch this CNY Central news report and check out our December newsletter article for more information on SCORE. 

A community school is a framework for building and sustaining connections between schools and critical community resources so that the school becomes the hub of the neighborhood; a vital, community-based point of access for services tailored to meet child, parent, family and community needs. CCSI is proud to be the Lead Agency for the community school initiative at Enrico Fermi School 17 for the past five years and to provide lead agency support to John James Audubon School 33 since 2019. Over the last year, CCSI’s teams responded to the educational and social disruptions during the pandemic to better support student and family needs.

CCSI has partnered with Children’s Institute’s Whole Child Connection to offer a Learning Consortium called “Moving an IDEA to Improvement! - Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access” to school teams from six Rochester City Schools. The Learning Consortium is one part of the Whole Child Connection’s overall capacity building work with those schools, funded by the Greater Rochester Health Foundation, and is designed to bring together teams or individual members to learn, grow, and engage in courageous conversations related to IDEA.

Family Support for Student Success (FSSS) is a school-based, child welfare preventative services program that provides critical supports for children and their families. This case management program offers help with issues around academics, behavior, family relationships, food security, housing, and more. Other services include advocacy and crisis counseling. FSSS and HOPE Specialists continued to work with students and families in the Syracuse community throughout the pandemic to promote academic engagement and success, and address a broad range of other needs.

Best Practices for Educators During a Global Pandemic: Conversations on Grief, Trauma and Healing During a Pandemic

Educators are being called upon to draw from multiple fields of expertise to effectively respond and promote resilience and recovery during this unprecedented time. Join CCSI Senior Consultants Amy Scheel-Jones, Deb Salamone and Nancy Sung Shelton for this free webinar series which fosters the rapid development of knowledge, skills and abilities to increase internal capacity and meet the needs of students, staff, and communities. click on the button below to view each webinar.

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Check out our 2020 annual report where we share stories highlighting the impact of our work, thank our customers and workforce, and acknowledge the leadership and support from the CCSI board of directors.

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