Mentoring__From_Promise_To_Performance

Mentoring: From Promise To Performance Mentoring: From Promise To Performance In recent years, the lack of much needed after-school programs such as mentoring has forced the community of Tyler, Texas to investigate and address the problem. Realizing that not only would a mentoring program be beneficial to our youth, it would be beneficial to our community. Therefore, they created a wonderful program. The Reaching Out: Apache Pals Mentoring for At-Risk Youth is an excellent program in which to volunteer free time. Because the goal is to prevent youth from becoming a part of the juvenile justice system, the commitment to weekly contacts is the most important aspect of the program. Being a mentor allows you to motivate, tutor, and listen to their fears, frustrations, and dreams. This program began during the fall of 1992 and is patterned after the Big Brothers/Big Sisters Program in partnership with the Tyler Independent School District. Not only is the main goal to prevent youth from becoming a part of the juvenile justice system, it is also to prevent the youth from failing a mentoring, youth, program, mentor, time, community, prevent, goal, tutor, subject, school, out, might, make, life, level, learn, helping, help, failing, committed, commitment, because, attention, young, weekly, tyler, tutoring, told, themselves, tell, system, someone, situations, show