Mentoring Builds Connections
Mentoring helps youth encounter new experiences, acquire essential skills, and develop relationships.
Graduation
We are getting ready to celebrate our graduates! We have over 25 High School and College graduates!
Our event is an inspiring night where we get to share in a celebratory milestone for our mentees. This is a private event for our mentees, their families and mentors.
Summer Spark
This Summer our mentees will have some exciting opportunities to spark their summer and ignite their creativity. We provide stipends for summer camps and enriching activities to help keep our kids engaged over the summer. New for this Summer we have new hybrid online/in person workshops! Registration opens soon for our mentees!
Educational Pathways
Helping our mentees see new pathways to reach their goals is a critical component of our program. Our education departments serves as a resouce for tools to coach them on how to overcome challenges, realize their potential and explore future options.
The Skills 4 Success plan provides ways for mentors to teach, cultivate, and encourage the use of hard and soft skills throughout middle and high school.
Mentees choose from a list of skills to focus on with their mentor. There are a variety of topics to choose from including goal setting, time management, initiative, self-advocacy, basic math, and communication skills.
Mentors are equipped with training and research-based skills sheets to implement during mentoring sessions to cover the chosen skill.
We are committed to offering enrichment opportunities for mentees during the summer. This summer, Save Our Youth is providing stipends to cover the cost of opportunities in the community. In the future, we may explore offering individualized tracks to help mentees work on hard and soft skills they need to succeed academically and in life.
For high school seniors, we offer a year long Senior Experience with a series of workshops, activities and guest speakers. Our aim is to help prepare for a post-secondary transition to which includes an intentional gap year, trade school, college or career pathway.
To support our mentees as they pursue post-secondary options, youth have an advisor from Save Our Youth to help navigate emotional and academic challenges while making sure students are aware they are not alone in this new transiton and phase of life.
Through this program, Save Our Youth also provides financial scholarships for tuition and books to help bridge some of the financial gaps our mentees face. We aim to provide the needed support and resources for them to complete a post-secondary program.
Family Fun Day 2024
We celebreated Family Fun Day with a Neon Glow Party! We had a fun brunch stations, a glow room with glow bingo and graffiti wall. Our activity stations included neon painting, jenga and limbo! It was a great day!
