Partners One-to-one Mentoring program seeks to achieve the following objectives:

• To develop a close and caring relationship between the Junior Partner and Senior Partner.
• To assist the junior Partner in creating conditions which improve the sense of self-esteem and self-confidence.
• To increase the Junior Partners sense of self-worth, effectiveness, ability to cope, and general state of happiness.
• To assist the Junior Partner in developing a level of moral judgment that takes into account the effect of one’s decisions and actions on other people, as well as on oneself.

The Partnership:

Depending on the program, Community Based or In-School Mentoring, partners agree to spend at least three hours or an hour and a half respectively, a week together for a year.

Everyone in a Partnership is a volunteer, including the child and Parent(s) or Guardian(s).

This matched relationship offers each youth in the program the opportunity to strengthen feelings of self-worth, improve academics, develop social skills, decrease delinquent behavior, and increase the ability to cope with stress.