ßÙßÇÂþ» Community Schools Timeline
2009:
- Broome-Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) partners with ßÙßÇÂþ» University and Lourdes Health Care to win the federal Safe Schools - Healthy Students (SS-HS) grant. Through this grant, a county wide initiative connected services within the community to address youth violence.
- Masters of Social Work (MSW) Fellows began supporting local schools through the SS-HS grant, becoming the first county-wide coordinated placement.
2013:
- The New York State Education Reform Commission named the implementation and expansion of community schools as a recommendation.
- ßÙßÇÂþ», Lourdes Health Care, Broome County Superintendents and various other community members joined together to propose Broome County become a New York State Promise Zone in order to continue the SS-HS work after the grant had ended.
2014:
- ßÙßÇÂþ» partners with BOCES and Broome County Mental Health to begin the implementation of the county-wide university assisted community school model under the Promise Zone designation.
- Summer Zone was developed to offer summer programming serving middle school students.
- College of Community and Public Affairs partnered with ßÙßÇÂþ»â€™s Center for Civic Engagement to facilitate the placement of university interns and volunteers in local school districts to support students and the community school model.
2017:
- Kim Myers and Dick’s Sporting Goods partnered with ßÙßÇÂþ» Community Schools to create B.U.S Bucks to combat chronic absenteeism.
2018:
- ßÙßÇÂþ» Community Schools was established.
- The New York State Department of Education designated ßÙßÇÂþ» as the Community School Technical Assistance Center (TAC) for Central and Western New York.
2019:
- The first cohort of the Advanced Certificate Program (developed in partnership with the Children’s Aid Society National Technical Assistance Center) graduated.
- BUCS Regional Network was developed.
2020:
- Received Netter Center University-Assisted Community Schools Regional Training Center (NY and NJ).
2021:
- Full-time Regional Network Director hired to focus on local work.
- Expansion in Spring 2021 to include Community Based and Faith Based Organizations in hard hit COVID areas (CARES).
- 21st Century Community Learning Centers Technical Assistance Resource Center launched fall 2021.
2023:
- The Rural Mental Health and Family Partner Program were launched under the Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant in the Fall of 2023.