<strong>About Community Schools</strong>

<em>Children's Home + Aid saves children's lives, moves families forward and goes where the need is greatest.</em>

<strong>A Brief History</strong>

Founded in 1883, Children's Home + Aid continues a mission of giving help, hope and opportunity to children with a variety of educational, emotional, physical and behaviroal needs. Each year, we help more than 40,000 children and families in Illinois through services like adoption, foster care, early childhood education, counseling, child abuse prevention and community school partnerships.

<strong>What is a Community School?</strong>

A community school is a place and a set of partnerships. The place is the school. The partnerships are those relationships are those relationships that exist between the school and local service providers..