A strong support network lifts all students and every family at Douglas Middle School and helps prepare our scholars for a successful high school experience.
53206 Initiative
The 53206 Initiative is taking innovative steps to student achievement through equity. High expectations, academic rigor, and access to resources and options are enhancing academics and student well-being. Milwaukee Public Schools envisions a future 53206 in which all schools are anchors of the community and every child can become successful in college and career.
Fathers Making Progress
Fathers Making Progress creates spaces of learning, support, and growth for fathers. The nonprofit helps fathers become integral parts of their family and their communities and works to ensure that fathers have an avenue to stand in the gaps to help their families be successful. Fathers Making Progress partners with Douglas Middle School to offer intergenerational and community service opportunities for young men.
GE Foundation
The GE Foundation is committed to transforming communities and shaping the diverse workforce of tomorrow by leveraging the power of GE, from creating innovative learning opportunities in STEM education to building sustainable solutions. A grant from the GE Foundation makes Douglas Middle School’s GE Innovation Lab possible. In this tech-equipped space, students learn and design, play and invent utilizing analytical skills, teamwork, and tools to solve creative challenges.
Girls of Color
The Girls of Color program creates true co-collaborative partnerships with school sites that demonstrate a true commitment, capacity and structure to elevate, enhance and/or improve the ways in which they support girls of color. Douglas Middle School participates in the Girls of Color Pilot Partnership Program through Milwaukee Public Schools Department of Gender Identity & Inclusion.
Junior Achievement USA
Junior Achievement USA is the nation’s largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices. Junior Achievement’s programs in work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy ignite the spark in young people to experience and realize the opportunities and realities of work and life in the 21st century. Douglas Middle School students participate in Junior Achievement USA programming through Junior Achievement of Wisconsin.
Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan
As Douglas Middle School’s partner organization through the School Community Partnership for Mental Health, therapists from Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan spend two days per week at Douglas, working with teachers, the school social worker, psychologist, counselor, and parent coordinator, to get to know students and families. As trusted members of our school community, therapists bring age appropriate, evidence-based wellness workshops and therapies to students and families.
Marquette University
Marquette is a Catholic, Jesuit university with more than 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students in 11 nationally and internationally recognized colleges and schools. Graduate students in the university’s STEM programs teach and advise Douglas students working on game-design and coding projects in our GE Innovation Lab.
Peer Specialists Limited
Peer-led and peer-run, the Milwaukee nonprofit Peer Specialists Limited (PSL) builds healthy and strong communities by enhancing children’s and families’ ability to meet life’s challenges and to foster resiliency and hope for a better future. Douglas students participate in PSL’s Teen Outreach Program.
Verizon Innovative Learning
Millions of students nationwide lack access to technology and the skills they need to succeed in the digital world. Since 2012, Verizon Innovative Learning has transformed the learning experience for more than 3 million students by providing schools and districts with the tools they need to thrive in the digital world and bridge the digital divide. Verizon Innovative Learning has worked with Douglas and other district schools to get internet-connected devices into the hands of students and to enhance how teachers use technology in the classroom. Effective June 2024, Douglas Middle School is a member of the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) alumni network.