Community Schools offered by TOGETHER!
Provides wrap-around support to K-12 students and families, enhances student & parent engagement, improves attendance, reduces dropout, & improves graduation rates among all students including students and families disproportionately impacted by systemic barriers. Community Schools Care Managers use a systemic approach to leveraging community resources and are place-based in Community Resource Centers within the following Tumwater schools: - East Olympia, Peter G. Schmidt, & Michael T. Simmons Elementary Schools - Tumwater Middle School - Tumwater, Black Hills & Cascadia High Schools Homelessness prevention/rapid rehousing rental assistance is offered district wide including to Tumwater Hill, Littlerock & Black Lake Elementary; Bush Middle School; & the Tumwater Virtual Academy.
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Physical Address
1520 Irving Street Southwest, Suite A, Tumwater, WA 98512
Hours
Office: M-F, 9am-5pm.
Application process
Call, email or visit the website for more information.
Fee
None.
Eligibility
Services are available for students in the Tumwater School District.
Languages
Spanish
Service area
98512
98501
Agency info
TOGETHER!
Removing barriers by providing accessible, local resources to advance the health, education, and overall well-being of students and their families. Our four core programs below: Club House - free, before- and- after-school and summer programs featuring project-based learning and Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) activities, & bilingual programming in Spanish & English offered Sept.–June & in a summer intensive. 2024-25 sites: Pleasant Glade Elementary, Chinook & Nisqually Middle Schools. Community Schools - This systemic approach to leveraging community resources provides wrap-around supports to K-12 students and families enhances student & parent engagement, improves attendance, reduces dropout, & improves graduation rates among all students including students and families disproportionately impacted by systemic barriers. Community Schools Case Managers are place-based in Community Resource Centers within most Tumwater schools plus our homelessness prevention/rapid rehousing rental assistance is offered district wide. Expanding Your Horizons - A Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math (STEAM) Conference to advance educational equity and increase access to representation and information about STEAM career-connected learning for girls and trans and non-binary youth of all genders, including and especially youth who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) in middle school. This conference is held annually each spring at South Puget Sound Community College. For more information, please visit https://www.thurstoneyh.org/ Host Homes - A proven approach to providing safe, short-term housing for high school students experiencing housing instability by pairing community-based housing with youth-driven case management and wraparound supports to intervene before youth experience chronic houselessness; helps students pursue educational goals, develop & strengthen life skills; and bridge gaps to stable independent housing. District partnerships: Tumwater & North Thurston , and Olympia.