UCF Center for Community Schools

Programs and services are a key element of Community Partnership Schools to remove barriers to learning every day. This month, we want to take a look at some of those programs across the state and show how they make a difference each and every day.

Next up, behavioral health supports near Fort Myers!

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Programs and services are a key element of Community Partnership Schools to remove barriers to learning every day. This month, we want to take a look at some of those programs across the state and show how they make a difference each and every day.

First up, how music is being utilized for mentorship in South Florida!

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Thank you everyone for a fantastic 2026 Principal Director Institute! The shared vision and purpose needed by both CPS Director and school Principal is vital. The stronger the connection, the greater impact at each CPS school!

The 2026 Principal Director Institute is underway!

Less than 24 hours until this year's Principal Director Institute! Can't wait to see everyone there for a day of discussion and collaboration!

Over the past couple weeks, we got to celebrate the full certification of two Community Partnership Schools! Congratulations to Manatee Elementary School and Eccleston Elementary School on becoming UCF Certified Community Partnership Schools!

To both schools, congrats to your partners, administrators, faculty, staff, and students on this achievement!

Manatee: Boys & Girls Clubs of Manatee County, MCR Health, School District of Manatee County, University of South Florida

Eccleston: Orange County Public Schools, Orange Blossom Family Health, Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, University of Central Florida

Both: Children's Home Society of Florida

We've had a chance to meet with and thank dozens of legislators in both the Florida House of Representative and Florida Senate today for their continued support of and the impact they have on students across the state. And we still have more to meet with before the day is done!



UCF College of Community Innovation and Education Children's Home Society of Florida

Our amazing CHS team is in Tallahassee today for CPS Day!⭐️❤️ Featuring our ED Stephanie Barbarette and wonderful CPS directors Darwin Rivera-Gonzalez, Jessie Garcia, Yasmeen Armoush and Brenna Allen.

It's chilly this morning in Tallahassee but we're fired up to meet with Florida's legislators today and show them why help over 45,000 kids across the state every day!



UCF College of Community Innovation and Education Children's Home Society of Florida