Student & Family Support

We engage and support students and families with holistic services including mental health counseling, social-emotional learning support, legal services, and access to fresh food.

Helping Beyond the School Walls

  • 300 students in summer programs
  • 100+ students in mentorship programs
  • 88 students in Pre-K
  • 31 high school students in paid summer internships
  • 250 students in after-school programs
  • 100+ students served by Chris 180 mental health therapists
  • 200+ families receiving housing-related services through Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation

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Working Together for Good

Many students have faced challenges such as trauma and mental health issues, housing instability, lack of secure adult relationships, food and income insecurity. We provide support services for students within the school day, when needed.

CHRIS 180 Provides Mental Wellness to Students

Managing Food Needs

We tackle food insecurity head-on by doing our own farming and therefore not only employing people in our community, but feeding them as well so they don’t need to be dependent on other resources.

Improving Food Security in South Atlanta

Encouraging Participation

We believe that by partnering with these organizations, we are reducing transiency and increasing student attendance, which ultimately improves student achievement.

Purpose Built Schools Lead Effort to Keep Kids in School

Purpose Built Schools Atlanta

 

Atlanta Public Schools partners with Purpose Built Schools Atlanta, a nonprofit organization with extensive expertise in turnaround education, to operate three traditional APS schools in south Atlanta: Slater Elementary School, Price Middle School, and Carver STEAM Academy.

Partner schools are not charter schools. We are traditional APS public schools. Every student who lives in our attendance zone can enroll in our schools. All of our students are APS students and count toward APS’ enrollment goals.

PBSA receives per-pupil funding from APS at the district’s average rate—just as if our schools were operated directly by APS. Without PBSA, the district would still be responsible for investing the same dollars to educate these same students in these same schools.

Learn more about the benefits of partner schools!