ELECT and
Social Services
Empowering Students For A Lifetime Of Success
ELECT
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Education Leading to Employment and Career
Training
Collaborative between the PA Department of
Education and the PA Department of Welfare
The SDP has contracted CISP to administer ELECT
since 1993
Assists pregnant and/or parenting female and male
students in the completion of their education so that
they can make successful school-to career transitions
and to become self-sufficient adults and parents.
ELECT Classrooms
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27 Sites plus Satellites
1,000 students annually
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EFI and Middle Years
Voluntary
Year-Round Program
Classroom-based
Includes Home Visiting
Focus:
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Recruitment, Retention,
Attendance, Grades and
Graduation
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Individualized case
management and groups
Health and Nutrition
Pregnancy Prevention
Academic/Career Supports
Parenting/Child
Development
Access to social services:
childcare, transportation,
various forms of abuses, life
skills, budgeting
Male responsibility and
needs (EFI-MARS)
ELECT TEAM
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Director Richard H. Floyd Jr.
 ELECT Middle Years
 ELECT Satellite Sites
 Extended Day/Out of School Time
 Provides academic enrichment, computer assisted
instruction, homework assistance, tutoring, cultural arts
and recreation, parental involvement.
 Linda Meade
 Pregnancy Prevention
 HIV/AIDS
 Character Development
ELECT TEAM
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Assistant Directors (Points of Contact for ELECT)
 Cheryl Phillips – Saturday School
 Jennifer Pitt
 Marcus Godfrey
Program Officer Kia Joynes
 Middle
Years
Part-time Assistant Donnell Sykes
DIPLOMAS NOW
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Innovative school turnaround model that tackles the
early warning indicators of the right students, with
the right interventions, at the right time.
 Evidenced-based comprehensive school reform
model.
 Reduces the % of students with off track
indicators in:
1) Attendance 2) Behavior 3) Academics
Targets 5-10% of the student population
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DIPLOMAS NOW
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Partnership among the national social change
organizations:
 The
Talent Development Middle and High Schools John Hopkins
 City Year
 Philadelphia Education Fund
 Communities In Schools (National and Local)
This program has achieved national recognition and is being
duplicated across the country for its effectiveness in producing
results for social change.
DIPLOMAS NOW
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Assistant Director Kaci Griffin
 Social Workers
 Todd Milhollen
(Feltonville Schools of Arts and Sciences)
Hardy
(Feltonville Schools of Arts and Sciences)
 Richard Amoako
(Cooke Elementary Schools)
 Emily Husband
(Marshall Elementary Schools)
 Provides intensive case management, family supports,
home visits, resource and community collaborations,
school meetings, assistance with academic and social
service supports that students need to achieve.
 Staci
Student Integrated Services
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5-year grant from the Department of Education to SDP.
It is an intensive, multi-faceted capacity-building
enterprise designed to bring an array of strategic
resources, training and technical assistance to the
participating schools.
CISP provides support directly to the students utilizing
the National CIS Integrated Student Service Model.
Research-based
model is being replicated across
the nation as a proven solution to combat the
nation’s dropout epidemic.
Student Integrated Services
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Six Integrated Student Coordinators (ISC) work with identified
students:
 who are at risk of not completing high school
 who are chronically tardy and/or absent
 who have credit deficiencies, and external non-academic issues
 Goals:
 Reduce misbehavior and incidences of violence
 Increase attendance and graduation rates
 Increase students scoring “Proficient” or “Advanced” in Reading
and Math
 Increase students taking College Boards and their average scores
 Increase the rate graduating seniors enter post-secondary
institutions
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Student Integrated Services
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The Integrated Student Services Coordinators
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Assistant Director Kaci Griffin
Jomyra Crespo
Edison High School
Nicole Ray
Fels High School
TBD
George Washington High School
Harold Edwards, Jr.
Germantown High School
TBD
Northeast High School
TBD
Simon Gratz High School
Kevin Daniels
South Philadelphia High School
Tim Atwood
West Philadelphia High School
Student Success Centers
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Designed to be a holistic approach to assist students in
creating a post-secondary school plan.
Provide and coordinate services and resources for students
all under one roof, such as college preparation and
awareness, career exploration and exposure, academic
support and leadership development in order to help
students to achieve their post-secondary goals.
Targets 66% of the student population
Student Success Centers
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Goals:
 66% of graduating seniors will complete applications for
admission to a college or trade/technical school.
 60% of graduating seniors will complete FAFSA.
 60% of juniors will register for ACT or SAT exams.
 30% of students in each grade will participate in and/or
receive services in academic support, college preparation,
and career exploration.
 80% will participate in summer internship program.
 40 youth are prepared/enrolled in summer or year round
internships.
Student Success Centers
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Services over 500 students per month
Elaine Johnson
Frankford High School
 Felix Carrasquillo
Germantown High School
 Kenneth Freeman, Jr. Overbrook High School
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CONTACT
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Treena Y. Reid, M. Ed.
Deputy Chief of ELECT and Social Services
Communities In Schools of Philadelphia
Rodin Place - Suite 201
2000 Hamilton Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130-3848
(267 – 386 – 4600) Main Office
(267-330-0164) Fax
www.cisphl.org