Community Partners

Bringing Partners Together

The community school strategy brings partners together across sectors to shape schools into places where educators, local community members, families, and students can work together. This strengthens conditions for student learning and healthy development. These partners organize in- and out-of-school resources, supports, and opportunities. These are some of the community partners organized through the Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES Community Schools Cooperative Service Agreement and the Community Schools Coalition of Monroe County.


Center for Youth

The Center delivers an array of school-based services to thousands of young people each year, including the Alternative-to-Suspension program, Crisis Intervention, After-School Programs, Prevention Education Services intervention/ prevention/ help zone, as well as school-based counseling services and child and family therapy.

Child Advocacy Center of Greater Rochester

The Child Advocacy Center is dedicated to giving children a voice and putting an end to abuse. Their comprehensive services offer support to children and families to help provide healing, education, and prevention.

Children's Institute

Children’s Institute partners with community agencies and schools to strengthen the social and emotional health of children. They assist with the implementation of evidence-based prevention and early intervention programs; provide a range of trainings, assessments, and services to support those who work with children; and conduct research and evaluation to continuously improve efforts that support children’s positive growth and development.

Common Ground Health

Common Ground Health brings together leaders from across our nine-county region to collaborate on strategies for improving health.

Coordinated Care Services, Inc.

CCSI provides a broad array of management services and technical assistance specifically tailored to meet the needs of local behavioral health, social and human services departments, state agencies, and community-based organizations in Monroe County, across New York State, and beyond.

Delphi Rise

The school-based prevention program from Delphi Rise helps youth make healthy choices, fostering resilience and preventing addiction before it begins. For those already facing challenges, they provide 24/7 clinical evaluations, the support of Peer Advocates with lived experience, and outpatient treatment services.

Foodlink

Foodlink provides food assistance through the safe storage and distribution of emergency food to a network of food bank members and community partners. They build healthier communities through innovative programs that create new access points to nutritious foods and empower people to make healthy choices.

Hillside Children's Center

Hillside partners with families to help provide individualized education services that address the broad challenges children can face when it comes to learning, academic success and graduation. They offer academic and vocational education, mental health treatment and behavioral support in a therapeutic, caring environment.

Monroe County Office of Mental Health

The Monroe County Office of Mental Health (MCOMH) is committed to improving the health and quality of life of county residents who are affected by mental illness, developmental disabilities, alcohol and other drugs. MCOMH is an administrative division within the Department of Human Services and is the governmental entity authorized to receive and allocate public mental hygiene funds in accordance with NYS law. 

National Center for Community Schools

NCCS has developed a vision of thriving students and has 30 years of real-world experience operating community schools. They are uniquely positioned to help districts build Community Schools from initial planning to long-term sustainability. What makes community schools a better educational environment is that they address the strengths and challenges of each community. Designing them takes commitment, clear-eyed assessment of needs, dedication, collaboration, and advocacy.

Nazareth University

Nazareth is a learning community dedicated to educating students in a purposeful integration of liberal arts, sciences, visual and performing arts, and professional fields; developing the scholarship of inquiry; and uniting academic work with campus-connected, local, and global experiential learning.

Peaceful Schools

Peaceful Schools is committed to giving everyone the power to be peaceful. This means helping everyone identify their own peaceful power and how to use it to make the world a better place. Being a peaceful person means acting safe and in control. A peaceful person cares about and acts to help themselves, others, and their community.

Propio

Everyone deserves a voice. Everyone deserves to be understood. This is what Propio fundamentally believes and why Propio Language Services position themselves to be at the center of meaningful and excellent communications.


ROC the Future Alliance

ROC the Future Alliance is a community-wide coalition working together to ensure academic success for every child. 

Rochester Regional Health

Rochester Regional Health focuses on working with children and their families. With a wide variety of mental health services available and 35+ school and community locations throughout Western New York.

Sources of Strength

Sources of Strength is a best practice, strength-based, upstream suicide prevention and mental health promotion program that has shown effectiveness in both preventative upstream and intervention outcomes. Sources offers exceptional training for both youth and adults in secondary schools and community-based settings and has moved even further upstream with an elementary model featuring a fully stratified K-5 curriculum. 

TogetherNow

TogetherNow is the nonprofit who created MyWayfinder. MyWayfinder connects people with essential health and social services. It makes finding and accessing care easy by linking users with providers in healthcare, human services, and education, ensuring they get the help they need quickly.

United Way Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes

For over 100 years, United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes has been addressing our region's immediate needs and developing long-term solutions to profound community challenges.