Grantees

Assess the feasibility of mentors for elementary-age English Language Learners (ELL) using books, Literacy games and story-telling in their home languages in five Chittenden County existing EW!VT sites.

King Street Center is starting a new Academic & Career Initiative, to ensure all youth aging up through our programs are successful and supported as they pursue their chosen post-secondary academic and career path. We know that students in our community seek a higher level of access, experience, and education as they navigate their personal journey through high school and beyond. As King Street Center's primary population are youth born to New American families, living with low-income, we are determined to be that resource for these motivated teens and their families.

Matching children with trained mentors within the Lamoille Valley Mentoring Partnership. LVMP will work collaboratively with area agencies, coalitions and organizations to enhance current and develop new community-based mentoring programs.

A comprehensive Leadership Program will be developed and implemented in grades 3-4 (Path Finders) and 5-6 grades (Trail Guides. School and academic success will be enhanced through peer mentoring, cooperative learning, service learning, with community engagement.

Mad River Mentoring is a community-based mentoring program for youth, aged 8-18. They work with families, schools, and local groups to ensure all youth in the HUUSD have access to high-quality, 1:1 mentoring. Our goal is to create strong support networks for young people to reach their full potential. They will continue to offer formal, adult-to-youth mentoring as well as provide more resources and support to participants. Additionally, they will launch a series of free, weekly, mentoring groups led by our mentors. The groups will be open to all interested youth, with content based on their interests. Through these efforts they seek to increase the support and resources youth need to thrive.

This grant will help set capacity goals, in conjunction with schools, for each of their 25 sites and meet these goals by recruitment & retention of mentors and enhanced support of mentoring relationships.

Provide 10-15 new mentoring matches for children with low level mental health needs.

Provide a mentor to each pregnant and parenting teen in the Sunrise Opportuniies Program with the goal of increasing their program attendance and participation.