Programs
“I've been teaching at this school for years. I thought this was an unknown neighborhood – but there are people out there who care… I'm overwhelmed with gratitude at the number of people here today.”
Laura Spiering, teacher at El Dorado Elementary School in Visitacion Valley (at the school's one-day makeover and clean-up)
Mentors
Join our schools-based mentoring program designed to build student’s assets. The program builds high-quality mentoring relationships that result in:
For students*:
- Increased connection to school
- Improvements in academic achievement
- Decreased absenteeism
- Reduced likelihood of drug use
- Increased self worth
- Improved morale
- Fresh perspective on life
- Enhanced self awareness
- Health benefits such as greater longevity and less incidence of heart disease
Learn more about mentoring:
Are there trainings and support to help me mentor well?
*Watershed Study, Big Brothers Big Sisters, 1995
**The Health Benefits of Volunteering: A Review of Recent Research Corporation for National and Community Service, May 7, 2007