Cornerstone Crossroads Academy Inc

Mentoring and social services - students' formal and informal mentoring with staff and volunteers plays a key role in helping students achieve success. Each student is assigned an advisor teacher, who meets with the student 1:1 each week. Advisors work with the students to identify and address challenging life issues and habits in their personal lives that present barriers to success. A graduation coach helps students define their strengths and identify opportunities for development both in life skills and workforce readiness. A case manager helps connect each student with needed resources in the community, including clothing, transportation, housing, food programs, obtaining copies of their birth certificates, social security cards, and state identification cards, as well as medical, dental and vision care.

Engagement - the academy provides volunteer screening and support for community members who wish to get involved in the south dallas area in meaningful, relationship-building ways. Each year over 400 volunteers engage in community services including landscaping and neighborhood cleanup, providing meals to students, delivering food to families in need, tutoring, providing transportation to medical appointments and hosting community events to connect with neighbors in the academy's area.

Cca work academy - the academy provides key life workforce skills for students so that they may successfully transition from school to work. Targeted classes provide students with opportunities to find their purpose, understand their options for higher education, and prepare for the workforce. Students who wish to participate in the work training program commit to working extra hours before and after classes and on weekends. These students also complete leadership classes focused on learning essential life skills for a successful work place transition. Students are connected with work internship opportunities in the community.