HOPE - Mentoring Model

A HOPE Mentor is a caring adult who supports a young person through a guided relationship that will faster the resilience needed for the young person to achieve success as she navigates through adolescence.

A HOPE Mentor participates in training to learn essential skills and processess to help build a girls self-esteem, help her become a stronger leader and help her ser and achieve goals. HOPE Mentors understand they are to support the girl, not parent, judge or control her life.

Mentoring works as proven by the national evaluation of Big Brothers Big Sisters by Public Private Ventures After an 18 month period, the study showed that compared to the control group, those youth who had a mentor skipped fewer days of school were less physically aggresseve, had more positive relationships and had higher grades.

HOPE is a community-based 1-1 mentoring program.

The mentor and mentees meeet in positive, socially appropriate venues, attend appropriate events such as go to museums.

Parents/Guardian permission and active participation are required.

Mentors undergo a comprehensive screening process application, interview, criminal background check and reference checks mentors also complete initial and ongoing training on effective mentoring pratices.

Mentors commit to at least a one-year mentoring experience, attend our events with their mentee; initiate at least two contacts per month(one contact should be in-person).

Mentors focus on positive social, academic, career and life skills as appropriate for the age of the girl

Mentoring activities vary per age group. Pairs do everyday things and just hang out together.