Youth & Young adult volunteer & Work Program
This Program offers services and aid designed to help you succeed in your employment journey. Primary services include assisting/coaching youth to identify job opportunities, fill out job applications, build resumés, and write cover letters. We also provide job training and retention classes, preparing for interviews, and advocacy. Secondary services include life skills workshops, vital document acquisition, goal-setting, trade certifications, opening checking and savings accounts, and financial literacy and budgeting workshops. 2020 offers community service and volunteering opportunities, work experience opportunities, income tax filing, transportation to work, and support in acquiring transportation.
Benefits of the program: Successful program completion sets the foundation for youth to enter the workforce. Also helps enrich the local economy by encouraging youth to seek employment with local businesses. Our program also serves as an after-school program, connecting youth with professional role models that serve as an introductory resource to the professional world.
1-ON-1 MENTORING
This type pairs one mentor with one mentee. It allows for the two to develop a personal relationship in which the mentor is able to provide individual guidance and support to the mentee.
It focuses on aggressive outreach to reconnect students on their academic journey. We employ several outreach strategies to assist students to succeed in their academics and in life. Mentors outreach and build rapport with students to earn their trust and ensure their academic progress. With declining enrollment nationally and with distance learning models becoming more prevalent, we believe RES’Q is an essential program that would assist districts to provide quality education and services to their students and families.
Benefits of program: increases graduation rates and decreases dropout. It increases attendance and decreases absenteeism and truancy. RES’Q increases ADA, student productivity, and supports distance learning models. RES’Q provides academic mentoring and connective and navigation services.
CLUSTER MENTORING
It focuses on gathering a group of mentees who share particular passions or skills in an area such as sports or gardening. There is an exchange of ideas and a deepening of understanding and skill around these topics.
Our socioemotional and mentoring program exists to transform the lives of urban youth. Overall, we provide youth with a positive, safe space on and off campus to come, connect, lead and grow. This is accomplished through weekly events, small group clusters, 6-week individualized one-on-one mentoring, and meaningful activities on school sites.
Benefits of the program:
- Building healthy Long term and personal relationships
- Positive atmosphere both on and off campus
- 1 on 1 mentoring
- Life guidance support
- Consistency
- Develop social skills
- Character development
- Opportunity in personal growth and leadership
- Offers key life skills
- A chance for new experiences
- Intimate setting
- Weekly activities
GROUP MENTORING
Our group mentoring occurs during our On-Point circles, connect nights, conferences, and assemblies. Although structured as a group, learning is individual and each mentee works on his or her own unique learning needs and development goals.
2020 utilizes restorative practices that develop character, leadership, and social-emotional skills to improve the students holistically. Through quality mentorship and a creative curriculum, We provide a safe/brave space for meaningful conversations, facilitated in groups, one-on-ones, and in-class support. Sessions include, but are not limited to: engaging discussions, quick activities, journaling, and wellness check-ins.
Benefits:
* Positively improves student behavior
* Decreases student suspension, absenteeism, and truancy
* Mentoring/Guidance
* Social-Emotional Support
* Self-Discovery
* Create Measurable Goals
* Positive Decision Making
* Leadership Development
* Character/Confidence Building
* Improves Academic Engagement
* Campus Climate and Culture