Who needs a mentor?

Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development reports parents spend 10-12 hours less each week with their children than a generation ago.  Millions of children in the US are unsupervised during high-risk hours between school and dinnertime.

What happens?

Young people who have been neglected and abused, live in neighborhoods and communities where every day their hopes get crushed by circumstance, and look at the world as an unfriendly and even hostile or violent adversary generally resign themselves to a lifetime of poverty, escapism by drugs and alcohol, unemployment and underemployment, gang participation and incarceration. Many drop out of school.

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How Mentoring Makes a Difference

And not only did the experience have a profound effect on their health and future, they were 130% more likely to hold leadership positions.
*California Mentor Foundation and mentoring.org

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Benefits for youth

• Increased levels of self-esteem and self-worth
• Reduced absences from school
• Improved academically and in school interaction
• Developed greater respect and interaction with peers and adults
• Discovered choices they make have consequences with possible lifelong impact
• Learned about the opportunities available to them
• Understood the positive impact they can have on their community

Benefits to society

• More future families stay intact
• Less money spent on prisons.
  • Prevention from A life of crime saves 1.7 to 2.3 million dollars per youth.
  • $70 billion per year is spent on corrections alone;
• Less money spent on drug rehab.
  • Underage drinking alone costs the United States over $68 billion per year
• Less crime and less victims of crime.
• Reduces the cycle of poverty and costs associated.
  • A high school drop out earns only 37 cents for every dollar earned by those educated.
  • The combined income and tax losses for one cohort of 18-year-olds that drop out are $192 billion, approximately 1.6% of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
• Fewer teenage parents
• Massive taxpayer savings

Alternative Cost Comparison

For $2,000 per year, Be A Mentor can transform an at-risk youth into a healthy, productive member of society.

The cost includes:

• mentor recruitment
• mentor background clearance and processing
• mentor training
• database and IT costs
• mentee applications and processing
• mentee interview
• mentee-mentor matching
• mentee-mentor match oversight and support
• mentee-mentor activities
• office costs

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