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We help youth and adults work together as partners and change agents in our community. Our goal is to empower communities to value youth and youth to value communities. We do this by exploring youth issues, creating strategies for change, and supporting youth to take a leadership role in making a difference. Adult volunteers act as advisors and mentors to teens throughout the process. |
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We work in already established after school programs and community centers, supplementing their programming/curriculum with a Camp Fire club. Camp Fire club build development assets and the curriculum is based on educational standards. The clubs meet one day a week, at each site, for 1-2 hours. Our middle school clubs are based on service learning, and enable youth to give service in their community. |
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ESD 101 serves 59 public school districts and 46 state-approved private schools in 7 countties in eastern Washington. One of this ESD's twelve major departments providing services is the Center for Prevention Programs. Its mission isto promote resiliency in all students and to foster safe, disciplined, and drug-free climates that are conductive to student success. One of the services the Center for Prevention Programs offers is the Spokane Mentoring Partnership.
The Spokane Mentoring Partnership is a project specifically designed to provide quality one-to-one mentoring relationships to children who are 4-18 years of age and have a parent who is incarcerated. These children are most at riskin our society. Without intervention, seven out of ten wiil become incarcerated at some point in their lives. This project is available nation wide and is synonymously called "Mentoring childeren of prisoners" or the more preferred nameof "Mentoring Children of Promise".
Here locally the ESD manages the overall project. To help identify the children of an incarcerated parent, ESD collaborates with Washington State Department of Corrections (East Region Section One), Spokane Public Schools, and with the Boys and Girls Club of Spokane County. To provide the research-based model for mentoring, ESD collaborates with the Goodwill Industries of the Inland Northwest. |
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Campus Kids: Campus Based Mentoring project for 4th, 5th, and 6th grade. We are partnered with 4 local elementary schools. Twenty children are matched 1 to 1 with 20 GU student mentors. 50% are boys, 50% are girls. The matches are same gender ( and also same ethnicity whenever possible). 80 children, 80 mentors meet weekly on GU’s campus for social and academic activities. The mentors, mentees and the parents and siblings of the mentees participate in a monthly Saturday activity. Mentors also visit their mentees at school weekly. Mentors attend a monthly reflection/training meeting.
Shaw Connection: Middle school version of Campus Kids. 20 GU mentors are matched with 20 mentees from Shaw Middle School. Activities take place weekly on Gonzaga’s campus.
SMILE: Project is partnered with six elementary school after-school daycare programs (Express). Teams of 10-15 GU mentors work with children in the daycare program at each school. The focus is on positive conflict resolution. Appx. 70 GU students participate as mentors. They visit their mentees weekly.
GAME: Gonzaga athletes coordinate a sports-oriented program in the evening, weekly, at Gary Middle School. |
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This is a school-based program where the mentor meets with the student on campus for one hour per week. The program pairs middle school students with adult mentor volunteers. The match lasts for a school year if the student enters in 8th grade, or may last up to two school years if the student enters the program in the 7th grade. |
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Grant funded through the Going Home Grant moneys that will end on June 30, 2006 unless continued through Region 1 funding. We are employing a Mentoring Model that has been designed to reduce recidivism rates among those youth who successfully complete the program. |
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Goodwill’s Mentoring Children of Promise (MCP) program serves children who currently or previously have a parent in prison. These children are at the top of the list of “at risk” children; without intervention 60% of them will go to jail or prison. Having a mentor can change the odds for these children. We call them children of promise because with an adult friend and role model their potential can be unlocked. We recruit mentors and match them with children of like interests. |
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IGTC – a program that teams an institution of higher education with an elementary school to introduce the students to the concept of going to college. The students work with their teachers to learn about college and then culminate the lessons with a day at the partner college.
PMP – This is a new initiative that is intended to create a college peer mentoring program in local high schools. Up to ten high school seniors are selected to mentor ten students who are interested in attending college. The mentors will be fully trained |
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We provide college scholarships and mentoring to low-income, high-potential students.
WEF has partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to offer Achievers Scholarships and mentoring support to approximately 500 highly motivated low-income students per year. Over a 13-year time frame, 5,000 Washington students will receive approximately 100 million dollars in scholarship support. These scholarships will be available to low-income students from 16 selected Washington high schools that have large percentages of low-income students and that commit to major school redesign based on the "Attributes of High Achievement Schools." |
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Project MOVE is a community- based, one-to-one mentoring program that matches youth ages 16-21 who have a disability, with individual adults(18 years and up) wanting to support and encourage the youths' goals toward employment, education, and independence. The program addresses the lack of community support for the youth with disabilities upon high school graduation. Modeled after Big Brothers Big Sisters program, Project MOVE provides match coordination, support and resources to ensure that both the mentor and mentee are supported throughout the mentoring relationship. It has been shown that spending just a small amount of time each month with a caring adult can be the key to a young persons' success in life. Mentors are everyday people who enjoy being with young adults, sharing stories, encouraging them to set goals , gain self-confidence and work toward independence. Who Mentored YOU? Thank Them and Pass It On. Become a Mentor Today! |
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RSVP is part of the National Senior Service Corps, which is funded in part by the Corporation for National and Community Service, as well as through local grants and donations. Our volunteers address critical community issues such as literacy, hunger, crime, environmental protection, and services to youth, the elderly and the disabled. Nationally, RSVP volunteers contribute over 80 million hours of service annually. |
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Big Brothers Big Sisters is the oldest, largest and most effective mentoring program in the United States. Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) of the Inland Northwest, based in Spokane, WA, provides 1-on-1 mentoring for children throughout Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho who are in desperate need of a friend. At BBBS, the little moments that occur between a child (Little) and their mentor (Big), whether it is riding bicycles or watching a movie, become big magic. BBBS has two programs as a part of the 1-on-1 mentoring model. The first is community-based mentoring. In community-based mentoring, Bigs and Littles go to the movies, hang-out, bake cookies or just chat. Typically, in the community-based model, the Bigs and Littles get together 3-4 times per month. The second type of mentoring program is school-based. In school-based mentoring, the Big meets the Little at his/her school one hour every week during lunch or after school. At school, the Big and Little play basketball together, read books, play games and have lunch. |
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Northeast Washington State Rural Mentoring Partnership
Tri-County Readiness To Learn |
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