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Help Us Help A Youth!...
WE NEED MENTORS who are responsible and willing to commit to being important in a youth's life!
The Mentoring Program is designed to match qualified, volunteer mentors with youth who are in foster care or on probation, and under the supervision of Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) DCFS and the Probation Department.
Youth are matched with suitable and responsible adult mentors within the communities where they are placed. The goals for the Mentoring Program are: - to improve upon the growth and development for youth in foster care through partnering youth with responsible adult mentors to improve school attendance - to improve school attendance - to stabilize the child in foster care in order to reduce replacements - to raise the level of self-efficacy, create positive values and to empower youth - to decrease socially and self-destructive behaviors - to develop supportive networks
We believe that the more frequent the contact between mentor and youth, and the better the quality of the mentoring relationship, the more positive direct effect on the youth’s improvement.
Staff run a highly structured program including initial and ongoing training for mentors and supervision of the mentor matches. The mentoring match is relationship-based, and focuses on the development and growth of the relationship instead of focusing on academics or other activities. Contact: Mentoring Program Manager 596-5921, Ext. 3627
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