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Public Schools Outreach (PSO)

Public Schools Outreach serves as the primary vehicle for the delivery of social services to urban youth and their families in 73 public schools in Dallas County as part of the church-adopt-a-school program. The heart of the program is maximizing student success by creating healthy conditions at school and in the home. Activities promote four messages: stay-in-school, no drugs or alcohol, sexual abstinence, and no violence.Relationships are developed with students through a combination of activities that include:
  • School-based Mentoring cultivates trusting relationships between adult role models and students, developing prosocial skills in students and a sense of belonging among their peers, families, and communities.
  • Life Skills Educationaddresses sexual abstinence, anger management, school dropout and substance abuse issues in a school setting.
  • High School Heroes gives high school student leaders an opportunity to inspire elementary and middle-school youth to stay in school and reach their highest potential.
  • The Elementary Back-to-School Rally brings together hundreds of students and their parents for the purpose of receiving information and taking advantage of social, health and education services offered through TTA and other community vendors. Students receive backpacks with school supplies for attending.
  • CAGE Eventsare held four times per year bringing thousands of middle and high school students together for a challenging talk and entertainment, promoting drug-free, abstinence, no violence, and stay-in-school messages.
  • A State-of-the-Art Youth Center serves as a neighborhood hub for a variety of social and entertainment activities for young people.


Our focus is prevention…reaching children
early enough before problems become
too big. The overall goal is sustainability
…providing long-term solutions that bring
about lasting changes. We are able to do
this by concentrating our efforts on high
schools and their corresponding middle and
elementary schools known as school clusters.

 

Participating Public Schools

Carter Cluster
Coordinator:
Dewayne Norris 

High School
• Carter High

Middle Schools
• WH Atwell
• DA Hulcy

Elementary Schools
• Adelle Turner
• Birdie Alexander
• Mark Twain
• Martin Weiss
• TG Terry
• Umphrey Lee
• Ronald McNair
Cedar Hill Cluster
Coordinator:
Ashley Randolph

High School
• Cedar Hill High

Middle Schools
• Beltline & West Int.
• Bessie Coleman
• Joe Wilson Int.
• Permenter Middle
• 9th Grade Ctr. 

Elementary Schools
• Bray
• High Pointe
• Highlands
• Lake Ridge
• Plummer
• Waterford Oaks
Duncanville Cluster
Coordiantor:
Allen Lockhart

High School 
• Duncanville

Middle Schools
• Kennemer
• Brandenburg
• Reed
• Byrd
• Summit Education Ctr.
• Daniel
• PAGE School
• Hardin

Elementary Schools
• Smith
• Alexander
• Merrifield
• Central
• Hyman
• Fairmeadows
• Acton
• Hastings
• Bilhartz
Kimball Cluster
Coordinator:
Ocelia Gibson

High School
• Kimball

Middle School
• Brown

Elementary Schools
• Leslie Simmons
• Thomas Tolbert
• LO Donald
• Daniel Webster
• Lenore K. Hall
• John W. Carpenter
• Maria Moreno
• Jimmie T. Brashear
• Margaret B. Henderson
Lancaster Cluster
Coordinator:
Raelynn Pineda

High School
• Lancaster

Middle School
• Elsie Robertson
• GW Carter 6th Grade STEM Center

Elementary Schools
• Rolling Hills
• JD Hall Learning Ctr. 
• Beltline
• Pleasant Run
• West Main
• Houston
• Rosa Parks/Millbrook
• Lancaster