Create adaptable and structured tool kits and high-quality curricula based on our data and evidence-based practices

• Define, scale, and identify signature programs and student supports

Enhance partnerships with schools and community organizations

• Strengthen relations with key local partners and collaborate for student impact and sustainability

• Partner with agencies to fill gaps in desired skills and services for students

• Further build connections with larger community support systems (referrals)

Standardize evidence-based decision-making

• Social emotional learning and mental health assessments (clinical work)

• Aligning programs with school support plans and needs assessments

• Establish routine practices that foster a deeper awareness and understanding of the communities and students we serve

Address rising needs of students

• Student readiness for life after graduation

• Enhance youth exploration of their futures as a component of case-management 

Key Indicators

District retention, increased graduation and promotion rates, number of evidence-based partners, increase in social emotional learning development for case-managed students, completion rate of a post-secondary plan, evaluation of effectiveness of case management from school to school, and graduation from case management, partnership retention, new partnership development, and partner utilization

Communicate student outcomes addressed by our portfolio of signature programs

Increase brand recognition across the state

• Strengthening district relationships across schools, district administration, board members, families, and community partners

• Build out relationships with local, state, and federal government stakeholders

• Increase investment in marketing and public relations

• Increase statewide awareness of CIS with school districts that are not partners

Expand network of champions for CIS of Michigan

Raise the profile of CIS of Michigan as experts of the integrated student support model

• Proactively market CIS of Michigan in communities through boards, coalitions, task forces, associations, and community partnership meetings.

• Showcase impact continually and in diverse ways 

Key Indicators

Increased media coverage, consistent presence on district platforms, district retention, rate of public speaking, increased PR opportunities across sectors, ISS written into legislation or satisfying state requirements

Implement innovative, effective, and sustainable fundraising strategies

• Community-centered and ethically grounded approaches to stakeholder stewardship and fundraising 

• Develop effective strategies to engage philanthropic partners

• Diversify funding streams

Create robust plans for the future

• Succession planning across the organization

• Contingency planning

• Managing financial risk & utilizing cost analysis process

Implement user-friendly financial systems

Develop smart expansion criteria

• Significant percentage of community commitment

• Long-term commitment from prospective districts

• Sustainable funding model

Key Indicators

Donor retention and giving levels, percentage of restricted vs. unrestricted funding, number of new donors and philanthropic partners, braided funding percentages, and donor touch points

Provide wages that allow staff to thrive

• Establish a pay band, progression process, or merit cycle

Greater support for staff’s professional growth

• Establish comprehensive training pathways with a whole-person approach

• Scale best practices in training

• Increase staff recognition and connection across the state

• Train the trainer model and peer mentorship

Strengthen structure & processes that provide training, support and accountability

• Formalized staff site visits

• Implement stay interviews

Increase transparency and quality communications practices

Key Indicators

Salary increases yearly, staff satisfaction surveys, dollars budgeted for training, staff retention, increased staff representation, greater sense of belonging, increased feedback, staff satisfaction surveys, staff promotion rate, increased staff retention/lower turnover rate, training feedback, employee value and engagement score, and track utilization of clinical team 

Conduct advocacy to raise awareness of student needs.

Join coalitions and build partnerships that work towards solutions that work for any student in every community

Work towards changing social conditions at the root cause of issues keeping students from succeeding in school

Develop content expertise on chronic absenteeism and implement strategies to reduce absences

Key Indicators

Number of coalitions joined, number of legislative site visits, number of times CISM staff present at conferences, increased legislative funding for preK-12, community data on student access to services, and reduced truancy rates