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Mentoring and Leadership Event A Huge Success
After months of planning and organizing, 20 amazing youth were matched with a specially-chosen mentor.
Over 12 months ago, the planning began for the development and execution of a community-based mentoring and leadership program for the youth of Cache. The hard work and commitment to our youth was rewarded on Tuesday evening, August 21st at the BEST! (Building Extraordinary Success Today) Mentor Match Event. Twenty 5th-8th grade youth who were selected to participate in BEST! met with their chosen mentors for the first time.
Donors, their mentees and their families, mentors, school administrators, and other supporters of the program came together and enjoyed a great dinner. In addition, mentors and mentees participated in several fun leadership, team building, and get acquainted activities. Participants in this program will meet regularly with their mentors and participate as a group in leadership and enrichment activities.
Rhonda Clemmer, program coordinator, shared that one in three youth grow up without a mentor and BEST! is designed to do its part to change that statistic for the better. She also stated that she likes to call the mentors "nurturers of possibilities" because she believes the mentors can plan an instrumental role in their success as they navigate the next 5-10 years.
In personal conversation, Clemmer added that the games included an egg toss, toilet paper games and signs. The signs had activities and mentors and mentees had to sign if they had ever performed one of the acts, e.g., toilet papering a house or tree, making a prank phone call, etc. Mentees learned they had much in common.
Thanks to Rhonda Clemmer for the photos and press release.
Applause for Cache's BEST!
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