MYST
Mentoring Youth Supporting Teens
MYST exists to CONNECT Junior High and High School students with responsible, caring adults, to BUILD positive mentoring relationships and GUIDE students to wise, constructive choices that will help them to be purposeful and positive CONTRIBUTORS in their communities.
CONNECT – BUILD – GUIDE – CONTRIBUTE – REPEAT
How will we do this?
· CONNECT with and BUILD relationships with students:
o Attend school functions (games, special events, etc.).
o Free and/or low cost activities.
o Meet friends of those students already involved.
o Meet weekly with students.
o Be available.
o Be available to Valley County Court Services to meet with and/or spend time with at-risk teens.
· GUIDE students to wise, constructive choices:
o “Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” – Theodore Roosevelt
o Listen.
o Care.
o Help to determine life direction.
o Be real and transparent.
o Provide insight.
o Be willing to gently point out behavioral areas that need improvement.
o Be supportive.
o Be admirable.
· Help students become purposeful and positive CONTRIBUTORS in their communities:
o Care about our community.
o Provide opportunities to serve the community.
o Serve with students.
o Encourage positive peer mentoring.
· REPEAT:
o This will be the true measure of MYST’s success.
o Students mentoring other students.
o Students growing into adults who will continue to mentor students.
How will this happen?
· Planning, planning, planning.
o This will not happen overnight.
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It’s better to start small and grow what you can offer than to start too aggressively and have to cut programs.
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