This is a reality for many children in the Alameda County foster care system, some of whom may never experience the love and support that only a family can provide.

Youth:
Foster Care Children do not have a permanent home and family. They attend the schools like other kids but they are missing a family that is just theirs. There are 588,000 Foster Care children in the United States. Often they feel alone in the world and seek the guidance and companionship of a caring adult.

Project Overview:
Caring adult volunteers are matched one-on-one with a Foster Youth as a role model, coach, and guide. Mentors spend one hour a week with the youth. They go on outings such as movies, musuems, parks, sporting events, and libraries. Mentors listen to the youth's dreams and give them assurance that their dreams can become reality. With the mentors guidance the youth will come to understand that there are consequence to every choice made and the simple daily choices become a pattern that determines the life path.

It is critically important that they are surrounded by positive adult role models who serve as guides, coaches, and mentors who  help them understand the relationship between the consequences of their lives and the choices they make. 

For the safety of our children, all volunteer mentors must complete an on-line application and undergo a background investigation.