The NEW MYST

MYST has a new look for our fall launch!  We are very excited about the new logo...thank you to a great friend and artist, Michael Wiser.

MYST can be found on FACEBOOK....you will find our current updates and events there.

MYST is currently making mentor and mentee matches.  Our mentors are trained and ready to be matched. We are learning, by trial and error, how this part of our process works.  Some parts run just as we plan and others...not so much.  The "human" factor is always there.  We can put all the policies and processes in place, but we must always leave room the reality of our human lives.  As we get very excited about students coming into our program, we learn that they sometimes move away.  :(

MYST has received its 2nd Year Title V Grant funding!!  We are very excited for the opportunities this will bring us.  Our first year grant gave us so much....training, resources, mobile office set-up, promotional items,  etc.  We are going to continue in this same vain with the second year grant.

MYST is in the process of becoming its own 501(c)3.  We are excited at the opportunities this will bring the program for the long term.

MYST is currently working on the "supporting teens" aspect of our program.  We are working to provide safe, fun activities in the community for our youth.  We are joining forces with other community members and business to make this happen.  Our current goal is one activity each weekend.  After we have successfully accomplished that, we would like to move to providing an activity each Friday AND Saturday every week.  This will take collaboration from our entire community...not just MYST.

MYST is also gearing up for our 2nd Annual POLAR PLUNGE Fundraiser coming in January 29, 2011....Winter Carnival.  Last years event raised $2800! We split that money between two youth mentoring programs in McCall....MYST and The P.O.T.S. Garden Project.  We will join together again this year, but we expect to exceed last years fundraising efforts!!

Mentoring is a life style that we hope our whole community will come to embrace.  We hope that MYST can be a catalyst for showing and providing the benefits of such a life style.