The Elgin/St. Thomas Youth Employment Counselling Centre was successful in securing funding to provide practical and empowering mentoring programs, tools, and services.
Goals:
- Leadership Mentoring Program for Youth will:
- provide programs that will be tailor-made to fit our unique contact with many youth who do not fit into the mainstream.
- will work with youth who have the potential to mentor others.
It is expected that:
- there will be positive intergenerational activities and experiences
- youth will assume more leadership roles in the youth centre environment and in the community
- youth will improve in problem solving
- more youth will express themselves verbally instead of physically through violence
- there will be less defensive behaviour against people in authority
- there will be more informal networks of friendship and support
- there will be a support group for participants.
