BE A MENTEE
Become A Mentee
The Project UPLIFT Mentoring Program is designed to help empower youth in our community to make positive life choices that enable them to maximize their true potential. We utilize trained adult mentor volunteers to commit to empowering, supporting, guiding and being a friend to a young person on a consistent basis for a period of at least a year. By becoming a part of the mentors professional and social networks and community members who care about youth. The mentor can empower youth to develop positively and reach positive academic, career, and personal goals.
With Project UPLIFT Evidence -Based goals
1. Improve Academic Engagement and Performance
2. Enhance social-Emotional Development
3. Promote Positive Identity and Self-Concept
4 Reduce Risky Behaviors
5 Strengthen Life and Leadership Skills
Should I Be A Mentee?
Is your life out of control? Is your schoolwork progressing as it should? Do you know where you are heading; and the steps you must take to get there?
Mentoring allows you to focus on how you can move forward and overcome social and academic related issues. A mentor can provide guidance, support and space for you to think about your past, present, and future.
Do you want to stand out from the crowd, learn new things about yourself, and work smarter, not harder? Be a Mentee!
- Have a support system during your academic, social, and life development
- Get exposure to diverse perspectives and experiences and learn from others’ experiences
- Increase your social and academic confidence
- Become empowered to make decisions
- Develop your communication, study and personal skills and identify skill gaps
- Develop appropriate ways for dealing with both personal and academic issues
- Establish a sense of direction
- Make new friends across age groups
- Receive individual recognition, encouragement, and support
- Gain the confidence to challenge yourself to go further
- Learn to balance school and other responsibilities and set priorities
- Gain knowledge of social "do's and don'ts"
Benefits To Mentees
How To Become A Mentee
Are you willing to invest in your education? Contact us right away to learn more about the opportunities we have to offer and to begin your journey.
