Mesa

A & A Cottages, Inc. Melissa Scarborough P.O. Box 2992 Mesa AZ 85214 (480) 792-0265 Ext. 201 Melissa@aacottages.org www.aacottages.org Year Established: 1996 Type of Mentoring Program: Site Based Location: Group Home Duration of Program: 12 Months Hours per Month: 2 Hours Description of Program: A & A Cottages provides long-term foster care services to clients (girls ages 8-18) who have been removed from their home due to abuse, abandonment and/or neglect. Our services focus on providing intensive academic and life skills training, tutoring and advocacy. Clients are referred primarily by DES. We use mentors to make an added difference in these girls' lives.   Gila Monsters Robotics Club Highland High School Ken Loyd 627 South Revolta Circle Mesa AZ 85208 (480) 813-0051 Ext. 2511 (480) 985-7156 ken_loyd@gilbert.k12.az.us Year Established: 1998 Type of Mentoring Program: Site Based Location: School Duration of Program: 2 Months Hours per Month: Not Specified Description of Program: FIRST stands for "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology". Each year on the first Saturday in January, Robotics Clubs around the country are given a problem to be solved and two crates of parts with which to build a robot. For the next six weeks, students, teachers, parents and engineers meet after school to design and build a robot. The robots compete around the county. The goal of the program is to show that engineers and scientists enjoy life just like everyone else. One of our students a few years ago, summed up the program by saying, "You know, it's okay to be smart!" Kids Learn FAAST Tutoring & Mentoring Program Foster Angels of Arizona Serving Together Danielle Brewer 1660 S. Alma School Road, Suite 225 Mesa, AZ 85210 (480) 895-0189 danielle.brewer@fosterangelsaz.org www.fosterangelesaz.org Year Established: 2004 Type of Mentoring Program: Community Location: Maricopa Duration of Program: 1 Year Hours per Month: 8 Hours Description of Program: The Kids Learn FAAST program has been specifically designed to meet the unique needs of children in foster care. Volunteer tutor/mentors provide a stabilizing element to the very transient lives of foster children while helping them to develop both emotionally and scholastically. A New Leaf Linda Haskell P.O. Box 5860 Mesa AZ 85211-5860 (480) 464-4648 www.turnanewleaf.org Year Established: 1989 Type of Mentoring Program: Site Based Location: Various Schools and Residential Programs Duration of Program: 6 Months Hours per Month: 10 Hours Description of Program: Mentors provide support to youth living in PREHAB group homes through interacting with mentees in a variety of activities in the group home setting. Mentors act as a positive role model, listen, care, provide educational assistance and social interaction. GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) 15601 N. 28th Avenue, #136 Phoenix AZ 85053 (602) 776-4616 Fax (602) 776-4619 www4.nau.edu/gearup Year Established: 2000 Type of Mentoring Program: Site Based Location: Various schools in Arizona Duration of Program: 9 Months Hours per Month: 4 Hours Description of Program: GEAR UP is a federally funded school-based comprehensive intervention program. Our mission is to significantly increase the number of low income students who are prepared to succeed in education beyond high school. Mentoring is a core intervention provided at each GEAR UP site. Mentoring, like all GEAR UP interventions and enrichments programs, aims to improve academic performance, reduce the drop-out rate, and increase expectations for post-secondary education.