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Office
3412 Westgate Drive
Suite 301
Durham, NC 27707
Phone: (919) 403-1936

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Staff

Bud Lavery
Executive Director
(919) 403-1936
bud@cisdurham.org

Elizabeth (Eli) Levene
Program Director
(919) 403-1936
elizabeth@cisdurham.org 

Performance Learning Center
Amanda Parrish
Services Coordinator
(919) 560-9190 ext. 11230
amanda@cisdurham.org

Kids Can't Learn If They are Hungry

“You don’t know what timing you have. I have two kids, one in elementary school and one in middle school, and I didn’t know how I was going to feed them. I only have 3 cans of food in the house and my food stamps weren’t coming in for 2 and a half weeks.” —parent of a child in the Weekend Backpack Food Program

CIS of Durham in the Schools

“Durham mall is site for center: Alternative school will see 100 teens”
-The News and Observer Feb. 24, 2007

Program Highlights

Our goal is to help Durham Public Schools reduce the annual dropout rate
by 50% in 5 years. 

  • Durham’s Performance Learning Center — an innovative, nontraditional high school at Northgate Mall designed to help students graduate on time
  • Incredible Years Program — a research-based program helping children learn prosocial skills
 
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