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Accelerated Reading
Program Year Established: 1998 Location: School Duration of Program: Not Specified Description of Program: Accelerated Reader (AR) is a nationwide computerized reading program designed to motivate students to read through school based incentives; the encouragement of our volunteer mentors is an essential element in inspiring students. Mentors assist the students in the test-taking situation. Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind Year Established: 2000 Location: School Duration of Program: 9 Months 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.
Year Established: Not Reported Location: Shelter Group Home, Treatment Center, within the child's home or in the community Duration of Program: 12 Months Description of Program: Our mentees are difficult kids from difficult backgrounds. All of them have suffered from unstable home life issues. Many of the kids have suffered from neglect and abuse, and many have no place to call home. We are seeking individuals who can provide guidance, trust, consistency, hope, and a listening ear. It may be just a little one-on-one attention that could really make a difference in our children's lives. Big Brothers Big Sisters
of Tucson Year Established: 1963 Description of Program: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tucson has proven success in creating and nurturing relationships between adults and children. Big Brothers and Big Sisters are, foremost, friends to children. They share everyday activities, expand horizons, and experience the joy in even the simplest events. Within these little moments lie the "big magic" that a Big Brother or Big Sister brings to the life of a young person. Professionals in youth development support these individual, responsible relationships. National research has shown that the shared experiences between Bigs and Littles have a direct and lasting impact on children's lives. A Big can help a child discover a world of possibilities and opportunities simply by being a genuine friend. Being a Big Brother or Big Sister is something that almost anyone can do. The only requirement is a willingness to make a new friend and a desire to share some fun with a young person. Our volunteers consistently say that being part of a BBBS match is as enjoyable and fulfilling for them as it is for their Littles. Nobody else is doing the work that BBBS does in exactly the way we do it. America and Arizona count on BBBS for Little Moments, Big Magic! EON Year Established: 1994 Location: Community Center Duration of Program: Not Specified Description of Program: QueerVoice seeks to support the healthy development of GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual, Transgender) youth through a multifaceted approach of role modeling, social, and educational support. In addition QueerVoice seeks to empower young people to become leaders in our community through providing leadership trainings and leadership opportunities. High School Student
Mentor-Tutor Program Year Established: Not Reported Location: School Duration of Program: 2 Months Description of Program: Junior and Senior Government Class students at Mountain View High School volunteer as mentors/tutors to 5-12 year olds in the classrooms of nearby elementary schools or in after school programs. The Government class students must commit 2 months, meeting with their mentee 6 hours per month. This provides an opportunity for the high school students to give back to their community and for the elementary students to learn from and share one-on-one time with an older "special friend". Link Crew Year Established: 2000 Location: School Duration of Program: 9 Months Description of Program: "Students helping students
succeed" Link Crew is a program designed to pair incoming
freshmen with upperclassmen. "Links" mentor in small
groups (8-10 maximum) and facilitate activities during freshman
orientation and throughout the school year. Link Crew's mission
is to act as a transition or bridge to high school for incoming
new students. The goal is to get new students integrated by successfully
welcoming them to our campus and providing them with opportunities
to form new friendships. MatchMakers Mentoring
Program Year Established: 1995 Location: School, Community Center Description of Program: The MatchMaker Program strives to develop and maintain mentoring relationships between youth grades 4-12 and older adults. Through a variety of social and educational activities, the youth build drug resistant skills, life skills and pro-social skills while the community is challenged to develop rules, laws and norms consistent with the reduction of substance abuse. Mentor-Tutor Year Established: 2000 Location: School Duration of Program: 8 Months Description of Program: Retirees from the Heritage Highlands Community give back to the larger community of Marana by using their skills and experiences to help teachers, needy students and the gifted program through mentoring/tutoring at Estes Elementary School. The Volunteers of Heritage Highlands also give back to their community through hosting an annual golf tournament fund raiser - "Golf for Kids". The event, held summer 2001 and 2002, raised enough money to buy school supplies and backpacks for all children at Estes School in need of assistance and to purchase items not within the school budget such as microscopes and a climbing wall. A luncheon is held after the golf tournament that brings together people from inside and outside of the Heritage Highlands community, community members and school children provide entertainment, and decorations are made up of Estes student's art work. More Than Mentoring Year Established: 2003 Location: Schools in Central and East Tucson Duration of Program: 4 Months Description of Program: The mission of More Than Mentoring is to increase the potential of minority high school girls with disabilities to lead personal and professional lives that are fulfilling, meaningful, and high achieving by participating in a positive, productive mentoring experience in which they are given the opportunity to set and achieve post-secondary educational and professional goals while also developing critical thinking and leadership skills. OASIS Year Established: Not Reported Location: Various Schools Duration of Program: 8 Months Description of Program: OASIS is an intergenerational tutoring program throughout the United States. We train and then match older adult volunteers with children in kindergarten through fourth grade. They meet one-on-one each week at school to read books, write stories, and to share experiences. Tutors encourage, motivate, but most of all become a special friend. They go through a 2 day training receiving wonderful materials from the National Headquarters in St. Louis. We do several follow-up sessions during the year and great year-end celebrations to recognize these wonderful volunteers. OASIS Intergenerational
Tutoring Program Year Established: 1989 Location: School Duration of Program: 12 Months Description of Program: A child spends the first 3 years of school learning to read and the rest of their school life reading to learn. The OASIS Intergenerational Tutors work one-on-one with a child to improve their self-esteem and improve their reading ability. One-On-One Partners,
Inc. Year Established: 1995 Location: In the community. Duration of Program: 12 Months Description of Program: One-On-One Partners is a mentoring program for "at-risk" youth. All of our children are referred to us through other social service agencies in the Tucson area. The child (Junior Partner) and the mentor (Senior Partner) must be willing participants in our program. We ask that they spend an average of 3 hours a week together for 1 year. The type of activities that the partnership can do together is strictly up to them. Senior Partners report in to their Case Managers every week or every time they have gotten together with their Junior Partners. This method is not only for our tracking measures but also so that it holds the partnership accountable to their commitment. One-On-One Peer Mentoring Year Established: 2000 Location: School Duration of Program: 1 Month Description of Program: The One-on-One Peer Mentoring program connects experienced successful students with new or underachieving students.
Outside the Lines Year Established: 1996 Location: School Duration of Program: 9 Months Description of Program: This program has had great
success in helping students self concept. It establishes a relationship
between a caring teenager with a "needy" elementary
student. The mentors work on academic success, social skills,
and self esteem. Project SOAR Mentoring
Initiative Year Established: 1994 Location: School, Community Center Duration of Program: 9 Months Description of Program: Student participants in Project SOAR (Student Opportunity for Academic Renewal) are those who have been identified as having potential to succeed, yet who are exhibiting behaviors that are placing them at-risk. These at-risk behaviors include academic failure, chronic truancy, behavioral problems, continued contacts with the school administrator and referrals to juvenile justice system. Project SOAR is designed to encourage students to focus upon their education and personal values through an intensive mentoring and academic support system.
STARS Mentoring Program Year Established: 2003 Location: In the Pima County Community Duration of Program: 12 Months Description of Program: The STARS Mentoring Project at the Pima Prevention Partnership is a collaboration of agencies, working together to provide mentoring and support to children of prisoners and their families. The collaboration includes Pima Prevention Partnership, Tucson Big Brothers and Big Sisters, the KARE Family Center and Prison Fellowship Ministries. The STARS Mentoring Project recruits and matches both faith based and traditional mentors for children of incarcerated parents.
Year Established: 1985 Location: School Duration of Program: Not Specified Description of Program: Our program is operated in partnership with the University of Arizona and AmeriCorps fellows and seeks to accomplish the following goals for Native American youth in the Sunnyside School District through school based mentoring and tutoring: to empower youth as individuals in achieving academic success; to increase Native American parental/community involvement; and to nurture the positive development of cultural and self identity of Native American youth. Teen Outreach Pregnancy
Services (TOPS) Year Established: 2001 Location: In the community. Duration of Program: 12 Months Description of Program: Teen Outreach Pregnancy Services provides teen specific, healthy pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting education, case management, and volunteer mentors to teens throughout Pima County. TOPS was founded to address the unique needs of pregnant and parenting teens by providing a support program in a non-judgmental teen specific environment. Through this program, we hope to optimize the outcome for the mother and baby as well as help to prepare them for motherhood and the sudden lifestyle change that occurs with parenthood. Women in Community Service Year Established: 1999 Location: School, Community Center, and if appropriate, in the community Duration of Program: 3 Months Description of Program: Women in Community Service reduces the number of young people living in poverty by promoting self-reliance and economic independence. Youth to Youth Year Established: 1996 Location: School, Community Center Description of Program: Pima Youth Partnership (PYP) Youth to Youth program provides cross-age mentoring that pairs successful high school youth with high-risk middle school youth during the transition to high school; and pairs successful middle school youth with youth transitioning into middle school. Mentors and Buddies are referred to the Youth to Youth program by teachers, parents and/or counselors. In 1998, after a review of the program, the University of Arizona mentoring office commended PYP for creating and implementing a program that meets all required components of successful mentor programs. Operates in the Ajo, Catalina and Marana School Districts and in the Tohono O'Odam Nation. |