Mentor- A mentor is someone who provides people with support, counsel, friendship, reinforcement, and positive examples. (www.ncmentoring.org). Mentors are good listeners, people who care, people who want to help others bring out the best in themselves that are already there. Mentors also help kids whose parents can't always be there for them. Parents who have to work late and who can't get someone at home to take care of their kids. They depend on mentoring programs like the YMCA, Big Brothers and Big Sisters club, Miracle League, etc.
Without mentoring programs homeless people without food or shelter would start to trust the wrong group of people or not get enough education. I care about mentoring because everyone should have a good and trustworthy parent or a good mentor in their lives. I volunteered at Miracle League and I saw how happy the kids were while playing baseball. All of them had mentors on the field that helped them. If you volunteer at Miracle League you can help the kids run, catch, bat and just have fun and be happy. I think others should care about this issue because if kids don't grow up with someone as a mentor they wouldn’t be making the right decision. Like for example if kids don’t get a good mentor they could get in the wrong groups of people, get bad grades, or not have a great life like the kids with mentors. Everyone should have the same support and care to ensure good lifestyle for kids. Mentoring mostly affects the children that have parents or family members who can't take care of them. For kids to find mentors they need someone to contact their school and talk to the guidance counselor to see if the school has any mentoring programs. If the school doesn't have any programs, people could contact other places like the YMCA, Big Brothers and Big Sisters club, Miracle League, etc. Faith communities offer mentoring and youth programs. At the YMCA there is a program called Community HOPE and it's a mentoring program where the child has one on one time with his/her mentor. The child gets tutored and builds many relationships with the mentors. For grades K-5 there's individual weekly lesson plans focusing on their goals. For grades 6-8 they also have enrichment activities. Kids need mentors because their parents might not be trustworthy, or the parents can't handle having kids. There might also be other reasons for their kids needing mentors. If this issue isn’t taken care of then the children might not have anyone to rely on and then they could start to make bad decisions. If they start making bad decisions then they won't live the best life for them and they could harm themselves. The benefits of kids having a mentor would be that they would have someone to rely on when they need it or when they need advice to make a better decision to know where to go. If the kids have a mentor the parents would know that somebody is taking care of their children and know they're safer. Since there is such a need for mentoring many communities have already made organizations for this purpose. An example is Community HOPE Mentoring for the Y. (www.ymcatriangle.com), Community HOPE Mentoring is made to academically teach the people who are being mentored. If you want to become a mentor for the Y you may want to contact a Y staff member from your local area. The Y says they need mentors on Mondays through Thursdays during school years. Another example of already made organizations for this purpose is Miracle League. (www.miracleleagueofthetriangle.com) You might think Miracle League is just a baseball game but it's actually more than that. It is a baseball game but it also makes people with disabilities feel better about themselves and communicate with others. There are still more things we can do. Like for example donations and food services. Some people have jobs like social services. Social services are jobs that communicate with families and ask if the families need help with anything. Some other things are just applying or volunteering for jobs that include mentoring ship. Mentors aren’t just for people with disabilities either. Mentors are also people that help gangs, pregnant parents, parents in the militaries, fosters, homeless people, runaways, drop-outs, abusive parents, parents that have been arrested, etc. There are still so many things we can do because there are still so many people we can help. Our group’s goal is on April 14th to get about 30 people to volunteer for a game of baseball with Mrs. Biddle’s class on the Martin Middle School’s baseball field. There are items that we need to think about like supplies, foods, drinks, location, exposure, and permission. The location will be on Martin Middle School’s baseball field. This allows us to avoid all the troubles of transportation to a far away location. The foods and drinks will be a variety of things to accommodate the different dietary requirements. Since there are so many posters of different programs and events going on in Martin we would post at least six posters around the school to get exposure and volunteers. This allows the students to know where to look for. We would also hand out fliers for teachers to give to their first period students or get Mr. Velarde to announce it on the Martin News. For supplies we would get them from the PAs first and if we can’t we will get them from our own households. We will also have them help supply the funds for foods and drinks which will be about $60-$80. For permission we would ask all the people in charge of what we need before going through with our overall goal. This is our plan to accomplish our goal of hosting a baseball game at Martin. There will be barriers in the way of our goal. A lot of them may come with time, but others could be supplies, funds, and permission. With all of these troubles they could have major effects and consequences, but we have backup plans for when these occur. If there are any other barriers we will supply a quick and reasonable solution. If time is the problem we will have time to spend after school or at a different location to complete the issue. If supplies become a problem we could find supplies in our houses and donate them to our goal. If that is still not enough we would send an email with our plan and what we are looking to obtain from them to all the parents of Martin students. For baseball gear we will ask the softball coach before looking to other sources for help. For the funds we will have the same approach as the supplies. To first look to the PAs. Then we will look to ourselves. Then lastly, we would look to the Martin parents. If the permission is what we don’t have there could be many different ways this could affect us. For example to use Mrs. Biddle’s class. If Mrs. Biddle says no to us, in this situation we would have to change the plan and goal. Since the result of this happening would cause a lot of problems to our plan we must obtain this permission first. Another problem with permission could be if we are not able to use the Martin Middle baseball field. Then we could go to a nearby park except that would require us ask the the parents and PAs through email to be our drivers. Another problem that could occur dealing with permission could be not being able to show a video on the news, hand out fliers or put up posters. If these occur we could send out an email to all the Martin parents letting them know about our event. This is how we will go about completing our project. Picture links: http://az616578.vo.msecnd.net/files/2016/07/04/636032001618685211508203438_Mentors-Image_2.jpg https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/p/6/005/078/34e/31d251e.jpg http://celito.net/celito-supports-miracle-league-triangle Resources: <http://miracleleagueofthetriangle.com/ > “About- The Miracle League,” The Miracle League, 2016, 3/20/17 <http://www.themiracleleague.net/about-2/ > “About Mentoring,” NC Mentoring Partnership, 2017, 3/20/17 < http://www.ncmentoring.org/about-mentoring/ > “People with disabilities,” Volunteers of America, 2017, 3/20/17 <https://www.voa.org/people-with-disabilities > “Community HOPE, Mentoring,” YMCA of the Triangle, 2017, 3/20/17 <https://www.ymcatriangle.org/programs-services/tutoring/community-hope > “Mentor Program,” AIGA Raleigh, 2016, 3/20/17 <https://raleigh.aiga.org/mentorship/ > “Find a Mentor,” SCORE, 2017, 3/20/17 <https://www.score.org/find-mentor>
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