Currently V&V is in the planning stages of the Mentoring program. We are drafting Curriculums and recruiting mentors and volunteers to execute this program successfully.
Mentoring Program
Present Activities
Planned Activities
The Mentoring Program will enable youth to develop their creativity and cultural awareness through knowledge and appreciation of the visual arts, crafts, performing arts and creative writing. Led by professional Program Facilitators (educators, teaching artists, or social workers), teams of Volunteer Mentors use theme-based curricula to guide small groups of youth through creating and discussing visual art projects. This process supports youth through building critical communication and social skills, and positive relationships with peers and adults.
This program will run all year round. It will be scheduled for the weekends and will also be used to assist mentees who are having difficulties with school work. Meetings will take place the first and third Saturday of each month from 9-2pm. The first Saturday we will do tutoring in Math, English, Reading, and Writing. The third Saturday of each month we bring in role models from all walks of life and occupation to help the students/ begin thinking about what they want to do with their lives and to allow them to develop their creativity by participating in their chosen form of the ARTS (e.g., theatre, voice, drama, writing, photography, etc.)
Program Goals
V&V has three principal program goals for the Mentor program:
- Reduce juvenile delinquency by at-risk youth.
- Improve academic performance of at-risk youth.
- Reduce the dropout rate for at-risk youth through the establishment of one-to-one mentoring.
Program Objectives
- The program objectives of this initiative are to achieve the following:
- Provide general guidance and support to at-risk youth.
- Promote personal and social responsibility among at-risk youth.
- Increase participation of at-risk youth in elementary and secondary education and enhance their ability to benefit from this schooling.
- Discourage use of illegal drugs and firearms, involvement in violence, and other delinquent activity by at-risk youth.
- Encourage participation in service and community activities by at-risk youth.