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Provides a school based tutor/mentor program to work with teachers and with students who need help with reading. Volunteers commit to working an hour a week with a student. Also offers the mentoring program, Breakfast Buddies, a school-based mentoring program that provides an adult buddy to a young child who needs an adult friend. It is provided at Orange Elementary and Gordon-Barbour Elementary. Volunteers commit to meet with their buddy 8AM-8:30AM one morning a week.

Provides tutoring and mentoring for 5-8th graders at Walker Upper Elementary and Buford Middle Schools from 3:30PM-5:00PM Monday-Thursday. Tutor-mentors provide one-to-one academic help as well as spend time with their students outside of tutoring. This program uses incentives and offers field trips.

A post-secondary access program currently offered through 24 Partner Agencies throughout Virginia in grades four to twelve. Project Discovery encourages students to stay in and graduate high school and provides resources and tools for students to successfully make the transition to post-secondary education. This is the central administrative office for this program. Project Discovery is a proven and replicable program that will help any student succeed in high school and get into college. Over the last 11 years over 84% of our graduates have gone on to post secondary education. Our program is a proven mix to: *Mentoring; *Time Management Skills; *Study Skills; *Help with Remedial Classes; *Help with Advanced Classes; *Visioning and Planning for the Future; *College Admissions Help; *Financial Aid Assistance; *Financial Literacy; College Campus Visits.

Big Brothers Big Sisters provide after school programs in the City of Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, and King George or Caroline. Also have lunch time and end-of-day programs available in Stafford county. Please call for specific school sites where services are provided.

The program pairs young professionals and college students with experienced mentors and provides the foundation for an effective and valuable mentoring relationship, as well as guided group mentoring sessions designed to help participants achieve their highest professional and personal goals.

Higher Grounds mentoring program empowers youth to develop the necessary skills and abilities required to maximize their opportunities for personal growth and productive citizenship. Higher Grounds provide school based, academic, therapeutic, and group mentoring based on personal need and development. Youth are connected to current community resources aimed particularly at the development and improvement of character and competency. Providing the basic skills needed to transition into adulthood through education, skills training, exposure to different cultural ideas, and the building of confidence.

Offers a community based mentoring program that addresses the problems of unequal access to higher education by low income and/or potential first generation college or post secondary students. Skyline CAP offers this program in collaboration with Madison County High School. In the local program, Skyline's Project Discovery students meet for workshops once a week to explore their options for life after high school. Participants are encouraged to take the hardest classes in which they can do well, and be involved in school and community activities. They also have the opportunity to visit at least three colleges or trade schools each year. College bound students are also encouraged to apply for at least twenty scholarships.

Comprises a variety of local mentoring programs with the shared mission of ensuring that quality mentors and mentoring programs are available for Alexandria's youth and young adults in need. With guidance and resources from the MENTOR National, AMP works to maximize mentor recruitment, screening, and training to ensure best practice programs.

Family and individual mentors services for clients experiencing minimal to moderate issues within the home environment and/or community and who are in need of one-to-one support and advocacy, while modeling how to establish and/or strengthen supportive relationships. This program can be therapeutic in nature, but this is not a requirement.

Resource Mothers is a program in which an outreach worker becomes a support person for pregnant and parenting teens. Any pregnant teen, 19 years or younger, is eligible for the program. These staff encourage the teens to complete education and build a future for themselves by providing parenting education, connecting teens to available resources, and teaching them about the care of a newborn/infant. They also provide car seat instruction and demonstration.

Offers unique Scouting programs are designed to meet the needs of youth and their parents, by offering fun and challenging adventures that children and their parents do together. Programs offer youth the opportunity to learn through the experiences of camping, hiking, building projects, and community service. Cub Scouting is the program for elementary school aged youth. This program teaches youth about their family and community. Scouts BSA is for middle/high school youth. This program features leadership development and life skills. Venturing/Sea Scouting/Exploring are for high school and young adults to explore high adventure, leadership development, career exploration and have fun.

Designed to involve at risk girls and inner city girls in activities based on the philosophy of the Girl Scout Program.

Provides academic and mentoring support by qualified professional tutor from the business and professional community for all students but targeting African American male students who have been suspended from a Virginia Beach public school for more than one day and intend to return to school to complete their educational pursuit. The program also gives opportunities for suspended students to make positive contributions to their community while suspended from school.

Provides an informal educational programs for girls, developing their maximum potential and decision-making skills. Also provides a comprehensive program by which youth and adults develop character, citizenship, mental and physical fitness, which are reinforced through mentoring, advancement, activities, and outdoor programs.

Provides young ladies with opportunities to address issues concerning the transition from girlhood to womanhood through workshops, activities and guest-speakers.

A state licensed child care center. Encourages girls to take risks and master physical, intellectual and emotional challenges. Major programs address math and science education, pregnancy and drug abuse prevention, media literacy, economic literacy, adolescent health, violence prevention, and sports participation.

Provides diverse activities that meets the interests of youth. Five core program areas of the club are character and leadership; education and career development; the arts; health and life skills; and sports, recreation and fitness.

Mentoring program for pregnant teens. These adult role models have successfully raised their own children and assist the teen throughout her pregnancy and up to the baby's first birthday.

Supervised after school program for children ages 6 to 18. Programs include education and career development, health and life skills, art and sports, fitness and recreation.

C4K combines mentoring and technology to prepare youth for brighter futures. C4K equips diverse youth from low-income households with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) skills that prepare them to be competitive for college and career opportunities. Do so through: Supportive 1:1 and group mentoring Workshops led by staff and experts Field trips to help members explore college and career possibilities Access to industry-level technology A vibrant and fun learning environment Offer personalized, professional-level support to youth creating projects in programming, game design, electrical engineering, robotics, audio and video production, 3D modeling plus our newest tech, virtual reality. Offer two types of mentoring: One-to-one mentoring: All new youth members are matched with a mentor, and work shoulder-to-shoulder to plan, create and evaluate 1 STEAM project. Group mentoring: All members invited to drop-in any time, for group-mentoring projects.

Provides a youth organization based at the Jack Jouett School whose mission is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to develop the qualities and skills needed to become responsible citizens and leaders.

The Sacred Heart Center has educational, arts and mentoring programs to meet children's educational needs and engage their interests.

Big Buddies is a school based mentoring program which matches adult mentors with children in elementary and middle schools throughout the region. Volunteers spend one hour per week during the school year.

Positive Action is for elementary students to focus on "feeling good" about themselves. Project Aim is for ages 11-14 and provides them with the motivation to make safe choices to address deeper barriers to sexual risk prevention such as hopelessness, poverty, and risk opportunities in low-income environments. The children and youth who participate in these programs develop self-esteem, learn to make wise choices for themselves and focus on the importance of others. The TOP (Teen Outreach Program), is an evidence based national program using leadership development classes and community service learning to lead teens toward productive decisions and positive behaviors. Leadership development topics include: self esteem, communication, values, goal setting, decision making, conflict resolution, relationships, and health education. This program takes place at 13 different partner locations and is for middle and high school students.

Offers music education which can be customized to the student's interests and that will progressively build skills. Requires accountability, rigor and discipline for success. It also builds respect for diversity and creativity by drawing youth and instructors from a variety of backgrounds and communities.