MISSION STATEMENT
To provide guidance primarily through one-on-one relationships developed around goals to improve socialization, academic, behavioral and/or cognitive skills of at-risk youth. CYS provides an innovative approach to youth services by utilizing technology for the following: progress reporting, transparency in operations, community based event notifications, streamline communicates with staff and clients.
GENERAL INFORMATION
The lack of organized youth activities in poor neighborhoods, and the rise of single-parent families and families with two working parents have all reduced the number of adult role models (Sipe*). Today, twenty-five percent of children live with a single parent, and over one-half of children will live with only one parent before they are eighteen years old (Tierney, Grossman and Research NL*). Youth mentoring programs exist to provide these role models and help a child develop socially and emotionally. Mentors help kids learn to understand and communicate their feelings, to relate to their peers, and to develop relationships with other adults. Increasingly popular, by 2002 there were over 1,700 child mentoring groups registered with the National Mentoring Database (DuBois et al.*).
