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COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS of the LAUREL HIGHLANDS
Executive Director: Mickie Eberhart
524 Central Avenue
Cresson, PA 16630
Tel: (814) 886-8409
Fax: (814) 886-5159
Email: Mickiee1@verizon.net
CISLH was organized as a private, non-profit corporation in 1999. It is dedicated to identify educationally at risk youth and providing them with school-based, supportive services necessary to successfully learn, stay in school and prepare for life.
CISLH services presently include "on-site" academic and behavioral assistance through mentoring, tutoring and homework assistance clubs, self-esteem and behavioral modification workshops, intergenerational and summer programs, and after-school educational programs.
Teachers, principals, parents, friends, or self-referrals refer youth to CIS. CIS students include those with low academic attainment, school attendance problems, attitude and behavioral problems, and unresolved social/emotional problems. CIS includes a "whole family' approach. With that in mind the organization also provides services for children with special needs, such as ADHD, fetal alcohol syndrome, Downs's Syndrome, and a variety of other congenital problems.
CISLH is chartered through their national CIS organization that gives them access to a national network of available services and pass-through funding streams, etc.
Locally, CISLH is providing services in Northern Cambria County in the following school districts: Penn Cambria, Northern Cambria, Central Cambria, Cambria Heights, Blacklick Valley, Conemaugh Valley, and Portage Area.
CISLH is governed by an 18 member Board of Directors and is always looking to expand services, wherever they are needed. Contact Mickie Eberhart, Executive Director, 524 Central Ave., Cresson, PA 16630 at (814) 886-8121 x1163 or check out the national website: cisnet.org
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