What Exactly Do We Do?
This community partnership program for youth engages faculty/researchers, educators, students, and local community members in collaborative efforts for addressing youth well-being, school and community engagement, and positive development in Lexington County, SC.
This intensive school-based mentoring program matches trained university students to youth attending Lexington 2 School District’s disciplinary alternative school, New Bridge Academy (NBA). Informed by the positive youth development framework and resiliency theory, the Adolescent Mentoring Program fosters an intensive helping relationship between university students and youth that focuses on individualized goal-setting and the development of youth competence, confidence, character, caring, and connection.
NBA Mentee
With this mentoring experience, it was good for me because we all got to talk about how to manage your anger.Also how to deal with problems like “what to do when a teacher is in the wrong”. Or how to deal with fake friends. But the main thing this program helped me with is my attitude and how to control my anger. They’re very trustworthy.
USC Mentor
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NBA Mentee
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TRADITIONAL SCHOOL - BASED MENTORING