February 2022
ICYMI: Communities In Schools Dallas Receives $3,300,000 from MacKenzie Scott!
Communities In Schools of the Dallas Region has received a transformative gift from MacKenzie Scott in the amount of $3,300,000. Thanks to this donation, we will be able to continue our work to create equitable outcomes for kids across the Dallas area.

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Safer Students, Stronger Schools Campaign Launched at Maple Lawn Elementary!
Thanks again to everyone who attended the launch of our Safer Students, Stronger Schools (4S) campaign!

During the event, our panel of experts reinforced the importance of placing mental health professionals on public school campuses, particularly those with a high number of children who need additional support. Through Safer Students, Stronger Schools, Communities In Schools of the Dallas Region is working to expand support in North Texas to reach more students and change thousands of lives.
February Feature: The Importance of Building Healthy Relationships
As a result of the pandemic, many students are having an increasingly difficult time forming healthy and lasting bonds built on trust, assurance, and self-love.

Communities In Schools, in partnership with community partner, Our Friends Place, developed an activity guide for talking to youth about relationship building. Libby Woolverton, Program Director of Our Friends Place, states that "...these conversations can be awkward and difficult, but they are so necessary...if we as healthy adults can model healthy relationship traits and engage in these conversations with the young people in our lives, it will make such a huge difference."

A mental health reminder: You are far more than just an athlete.
With both the Superbowl and 2022 Winter Olympics taking place earlier this month, the concept of glory through competition is at its peak. However, former student athlete and President & CEO Adam Powell is here to remind students that, “You are more than just an athlete

"We equate [an athlete's] identity with what they do on the field, the court, or the ice, and relegate mental health to a secondary position despite extolling its virtues... Indeed, for those wanting to become “athletes,” we can and should continue to use sports participation as a means of directly promoting physical health, and indirectly offering mental health benefits and promoting the social psychological development of youth. However, we should do so with the full realization that they are far more than just athletes and distilling their identity down to their ability to play and win can have deleterious effects."

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