Paying it Forward
Submitted by athlete Mentors on Tue, 07/03/2007 - 22:48.
This is a mentoring project designed to connect youth in the Baton Rouge community involved in athletics with a college athlete, professional athlete or retired athlete who shares skills and a passion for a specific sport. The concept is based on the idea that many young people today look to sports super stars as role models from a far, but never truly experience the real effects of having a real life athlete mentor to model the appropriate work ethic, character or just one-on-one interactions with someone who can attest to the real journey of an athlete.
Submitted by k_carlson07 on Wed, 06/13/2007 - 20:39.
The Center is a free after school program for low income, at-risk youth, located in a gang driven neighborhood where forty percent of the city’s crime originates from. The R.E.C. Center is open Monday through Friday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and offers its participants the opportunity to join in organized sports, arts & crafts projects, computer classes and the R.E.C. library program. The R.E.C. Center encourages students to complete their daily homework assignments in “The Homework Club” prior to participating in organized R.E.C. programs.
.jpg)
