WHAT WE CAN DO
We Match Students
with Mentors
Over the course of 8 months, mentors spend approximately 1 hour each week with their respective students reviewing grades, going over assignments, and assessing strengths and areas for improvement. Our mentors are specially trained and equipped with our proven 24 Talking Points© system and other program materials designed to help students develop healthy self-perception and awareness of the many opportunities that abound in the world around them.
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Our 24 Talking Points© are designed to motivate students to graduate from high school. But we also help our students develop lifelong patterns of personal growth that will benefit them all their lives. Here are just a few examples of topics that our mentors discuss with their students:
- School? Why?
- What does it cost to live?
- Goal Setting
-Who influences you?
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Students with special circumstances need a little more assistance to succeed academically. For some, it may be that they are hungry, need school supplies, etc. In those instances, our on-campus staff (and mentors) do whatever they can to provide assistance by offering snacks, school supplies, clothing, hygiene items, etc., and connecting students with other community resources that are available.
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The majority of students we serve are trying to cope with domestic and emotional hardships on a daily basis in addition to academic struggles. Some of them don’t even know where they will sleep at night or if they will get a meal after school, much less, what they will be doing 10 years after graduation.
Once our mentors establish a trusting relationship, they use our curriculum to help students think about their futures after high school. Together they plan out and start taking the necessary steps to achieve student goals.
Students in Our Program Close
the Education Gap with Their Peers
Young Adults Who Were Falling Off Track but Had a Mentor Are:
55%
Less Likely Than Their Peers to Skip School
90%
Are Interested in Becoming a Mentor
130%
More Likely to Hold Leadership Positions
78%
More Likely to Volunteer Regularly
Averages according to mentoring.org
You Can Become a Mentor
Mentors Care recruits mentors throughout the community at Sunday Schools, Small groups, Community Clubs, Chamber of Commerce, and more. Creating excitement and momentum in the community is key to a successful program. This program will not exist without the community catching the vision and seeing how each fits in with making a change in their own backyard.
Mentors will be supplied with talking points and updated grades each week for the mentor and student meetings.
We equip each mentor with a 24-Talking-Points workbook. This workbook is intentionally moving their student forward in thinking about a future and how to get there.
Our qualified in-school mentor coordinators ensure that students and mentors meet one-on-one each week, moving closer and closer to the goal of graduating high school and having plans for the future.
Coordinators work closely with school staff and administrators to identify students in need of a mentor. We also network with the community to fill any physical and emotional needs our students may have that roadblock their abilities to stay in school.
With the assistance of qualified coordinators employed by Mentors Care and working full-time on campus, mentors can help find ways of improving a student’s circumstances and unique needs.
More importantly, through the collaboration of mentors and their coordinator, their student is encouraged to be confident and resilient enough to reach their potential so that their scholastic performance and life circumstances can improve.
Returned applications with an attached background check are required for all Mentors
Mentors Care will match adult volunteers with students that have been identified as struggling high school students. Mentors will be recruited by respective program coordinators, screened with background checks, and reference checks, and then fully trained. Individual mentors will then meet on campus during the school day (one hour per week) throughout the school year to encourage their at-risk students to improve grades, improve attendance, stay in school and graduate with a clear plan for a great future.
