Tri Valley Mentoring Program
 
 

Youth Participants:
The Tri-Valley Mentoring Program will match adult community volunteers with children in Pleasanton, Dublin, and Livermore to create one-to-one mentoring relationships. The project will work to continue and support these relationships as the children progress through their school years. Mentoring will achieve the objectives of helping children:

  • Improve academic performance;
  • Improve interpersonal relationships;
  • Improve school attendance; and
  • Reduce juvenile delinquency and involvement in gangs.

The low academic performance can be attributed in part to truancy and tardiness. Poor academic performance, truancy, and criminal behavior are due in large part to a lack of strong positive role models for the students in the Tri Valley Area. Adult role models teach the fundamental life skills required to succeed academically, socially, and professionally.

Project Overview:
 The overall goal of the Tri Valley Mentoring Project is to assist students in improving academic performance, interpersonal relationships, and school attendance.  This is accomplished through pairing students who are struggling academically, or lack a positive role model, with individuals from a variety of professional and cultural backgrounds. Mentors help the students understand that life is a series of choices and consequences. If students are unhappy with the consequences they face, the mentors demonstrate that positive choices produce different consequences. When students understand that choices made today are the seeds of their future, the result is a renewed interest in academics because the students see the importance/relevance of their education to goals they have established. This is achieved through an emphasis on having fun! Mentors provide students with new experiences; they take mentees to the library to assist them with their homework, to nature reserves, to university and college campuses, to the movies, out to dinner, to museums and to cultural and sporting events to expose students to positive environments and opportunities. The relationship is then built around meetings and discussions that help the students to achieve  goals.

What do you do?

  • Mentors share life experiences,
  • Help the youth make positive choices,
  • Go see new places and things,
  • Explore careers and higher education,
  • Set goals for the future, and have fun!

How does it work?

  • Youth and volunteers are paired in same gender matches for at least one year,
  • spending four to six hours per month together, outside school and work hours.
  • Time spent together can be focused on schoolwork, going to movies, sporting events or museums, or simply talking and being a trusted friend.

Without YOU, a youth will have less of a chance to succeed.

 

Please sign up today to work with a Tri-Valley Youth - Click the "Volunteer Now" button to complete an online application.

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


Ryan Gray
Phone: (510) 795-6488 ext 178
rgray@beamentor.org