Youth Mentor
Submitted by dthomas on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 13:44.
Quarterly 'Girls Weekends' have been held in my home for the last 3 years. Their ages range from 10-17. The group size is about 8-10 girls. They are encouraged to bring and work on homework on weekends during the school year. The last Girls Weekend was themed "My Queendom". We designed our own crowns and totes. We did a writing exercise describing what it means to be a Queen, gave a description of our Queendom and told why our Queendom is a positive example to the world.
Submitted by bigmagic on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 12:55.
Big Brothers Big Sisters has been the leader in youth mentoring services for more than a century. As America's most successful mentoring program, we know that one-to-one relationships with caring adults can make all the difference in a child's life.
Children matched with a Big Brother or Big Sister were:
46% less likely to begin using illegal drugs
52% less likely to skip school
More confident in their performance at school
More likely to get along better with their families and peers
In Wake, Durham, and Orange Counties, there are approximately 32,000 at-risk youth.
Submitted by j.burt@sbcglobal.net on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 21:48.
A group of junior and senior girls who meet with Freshman girls to guide them through the difficult and life altering first year of high school. The "Fish Guides" would hold meetings featuring group discussions with the Freshmen girls and helping them adjust socially without doing it all alone and making some big mistakes that could change their lives for the worse. Anyone who has attended high school knows that freshman year is hardest.
Submitted by cwbroga on Wed, 09/12/2007 - 02:19.
Bridging the Gap (BTG) is a student-run service organization at the University of Virginia devoted to mentoring and tutoring refugee children resettled in the Charlottesville-Albemarle, VA area. BTG seeks to help refugee youth, typically ranging from 5 to 15 years of age, develop the tools necessary to obtain greater opportunities in U.S. society. BTG has only been in existence for one year yet includes over 90 student volunteers mentoring and tutoring nearly 80 refugee children.
The children in our program come from Somalia, Kenya, Congo, Thailand, Togo, Russia, and Burma.
Submitted by writersworkshop on Mon, 09/03/2007 - 14:03.
Writer's Workshop is a mentoring program that fosters a reading and writing interest in elementary and middle school students through lessons beyond the average classroom. We aim to create a network of passionate high school mentors dedicated to making a difference in their community by promoting a writing interest in students. We are primarily involved in changing and improving students’ attitude and vision of writing by help younger students develop their style by exploring the various writing genres and eventually helping them form their own.
Submitted by mrbsowell on Tue, 05/08/2007 - 18:34.
Brandon S.Sowell, age 18 has started a community development corporation that is overtly focused to reaching young males between the ages of 7-18, to provide advocacy and information to stop gang involvement, drug, alcohol and substance abuse and distribution, youth crime activities, violence and inter-community prejudices. Brandon S. Sowell has become a community advocate of violent crimes and abuses again women and teen girls.
Submitted by Quiara on Tue, 03/27/2007 - 01:38.
This program is a peer youth mentoring program for students aged 12 - 16, where students not only focus on enhancing their academic studies but learn to be successful in life through computer learning, travel and community service and leadership projects and activities. We have been responsible for helping a local early childhood education center seek and obtain funding to develop a new play area for their students aged 3 - 9 and are currently working on a project where we are helping them obtain funding for a youth playground for their students aged 10 - 13.
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