text:  There are students who need somebody. They can trust someone, and it could be the first person they've ever trusted in their life. Communities in Schools is lowering America's dropout rate by helping more than 1.3 million kids every year get whatever they need to succeed in school. If something was going on at home, we would go just stop by Ms. Liberty's office and talk to her. Communities in Schools vouched for me when everyone else had lost hope.