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Provides an evidence-based mentoring program that helps children realize their potential and build their futures by creating and supporting one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. The program provides adult role models to young children in the community. Volunteers are matched through common interests in hopes that the volunteer is able to enhance the child's life as well as broaden their horizons. Volunteers are trained to look for teachable moments to develop social, academic, physical skills as well as introduce new hobbies, cultural, recreational, and environmental experiences.
Offers a two-part program focused on cultivating a restorative framework and restorative practices. Part One educates participants about restorative mental models through a 32-hour training facilitated during a nature-based retreat. During Part Two, participants conduct a participatory action research project exploring marronage (a community-based realization of freedom) in 12 sessions over 3 months. Program cohorts contain 10 youth. Participants are paid a $450 stipend.

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Conflict Resolution Training
Youth Enrichment Programs
Mentoring Programs
Youth Violence Prevention
Establishes one-to-one mentoring relationships between adult volunteers and children in order to provide guidance, mentoring, and friendship.
Aids consumers in becoming more independent, locating resources needed to be independent, and achieving recovery. Peer Support does not provide treatment, but rather a mentorship.

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Mentoring Programs
Provides role modeling, tutoring, recreational and life skills development to at-risk children and youth in the community or in daycare settings. In home respite is provided for families involved with Lehigh County Mental Health and Northampton County Mental Health with a mental health diagnosis.

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Mentoring Programs
Transitional Mental Health Services
In Home Respite Care
Provides leadership and professional development workshops to all 12 GEAR UP high schools in the district. Each school is partnered with a corporation whose employees participate in the monthly workshops.
Offers academic help through tutoring, working with accountability, time to complete assignments, and mentoring. Provides 8 weeks of summer camps.

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Boys/Girls Clubs
Mentoring Programs
Tutoring Services
Offers intensive and comprehensive academic tutoring and social mentoring. Helps students increase school engagement and attendance, reduce behavioral referrals, and increase academic achievement level.

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Tutoring Services
Mentoring Programs
A volunteer companionship program between persons in mental health recovery and trained community volunteers. After training that is provided by compeer staff, adult volunteers are matched with adult friends who live with a mental illness. Volunteers are asked to spend one hour per week with their friend. Members of the match meet at mutually agreeable times and for activities they choose.

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Volunteer Opportunities
Mentoring Programs
Peer to Peer Networking
Youth are offered hands on projects in areas such as health, science, agriculture, and civic engagement based on their own interests and guided by adult mentors.

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Youth Agricultural Programs
Mentoring Programs
Offers academic help through tutoring, working with accountability, time to complete assignments, and mentoring. Provides 8 weeks of summer camps.

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Boys/Girls Clubs
Mentoring Programs
Tutoring Services
Offers a recovery community for individual who are experiencing distress and feel that they would benefit from participation in a short term, 24 hour peer-to-peer supportive environment with others who have experienced recovery and can provide support.

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Mentoring Programs
Out of Home Respite Care
Transitional Mental Health Services
Helps kids learn life lessons while they build bicycles. Students are paired with adult mentors, then spend 12 weeks learning how to fix and ride a bike they choose. At the end of the session, students earn their refurbished bike and a new helmet. Students enrolled in this program can also access others, including afterschool drop-in, Earn a Book, youth leadership, and cycling programs.

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Mentoring Programs
Recreational/Leisure/Arts Instruction
Offers a yearlong program where youth learn how to be their own advocate and prepare for their high school graduation, career, and/or college. Components of the program include: leadership development activities, empowering trainings, one-to-one mentoring, and service opportunities for youth to give back to their community.
Provides a faith-based activity center, mentoring relationships, and weekly discussion groups enabling teens to grow socially, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually.

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Mentoring Programs
Faith Based Youth Programs
Youth Centers
Tutoring Services
After-School Tutoring, Internship, Counseling, and Mentoring Program for Youth provides students from the Logan/Olney neighborhood schools, grades 1-12, with academic enrichment, job training, employment mentoring, and leadership training. The program operates after school during the school year.

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Mentoring Programs
Tutoring Services
Job Training Formats
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Youth Enrichment Programs
Offers academic help through tutoring, working with accountability, time to complete assignments, and mentoring. Provides 8 weeks of summer camps.

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Boys/Girls Clubs
Mentoring Programs
Tutoring Services
Provides reentry supportive services for families impacted by the criminal justice system. Offers services that include housing assistance, mentoring, case management, referral services, food, clothing, educational support, employment assistance, photo identification cards, driver's licenses, and bus passes for employment.

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Rent Payment Assistance
Transitional Housing/Shelter
Mentoring Programs
Employment Related Transportation
Identification Cards
Ex-Offender Reentry Programs
Ex-Offender Counseling
Intensive Family Reunification Services
Local Bus Fare
Ex-Offender Halfway Houses
Driver Licenses
General Clothing Provision
Job Finding Assistance
Homelessness Prevention Programs
Food Pantries
Operates an after-school program from September to May. Offers summer enrichment program at a designated Harrisburg City Park. Provides homework assistance, tutoring, one-on-one and group mentoring, culinary arts classes, sewing classes, financial literacy classes, literacy circle, arts and crafts, CPR/First Aid training, various recreational activities, and much more.

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Tutoring Services
Recreational/Leisure/Arts Instruction
Mentoring Programs
Homemaker Assistance
Youth Enrichment Programs
Financial Literacy Training
First Aid Instruction
Provides work opportunities with same day pay of $100. Also connects participants with peer mentors for additional support.
Offers team sports leagues as a hook to engage and impact the lives of young people in a holistic way. Flag football runs April to June. Basketball runs October to December. Volleyball runs October to May. Coaching includes mentoring and informal, interactive Bible studies.

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Faith Based Youth Programs
Mentoring Programs
Recreational Activities/Sports
In-school programming encourages youth who are at risk of developing social, emotional, and behavioral issues to build self-confidence, self-reliance, and healthy relationships.
Partners with Philadelphia schools to identify young people who have experienced violence-related trauma. Program therapists and counselors provide a variety of trauma-informed services including individual clinical therapy, psycho-educational groups, and mentoring.

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Group Counseling
Mentoring Programs
Individual Counseling
Provides goal planning and assistance, peer to peer counseling, wellness groups, personal wellness recovery plan (WRAP), psychiatric advanced directive, advocacy, community awareness and integration awareness, self-determination and self-discovery.

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Mentoring Programs
Mental Health Related Support Groups
Peer Counseling
Provides personalized support, family coaching, mentoring, and outreach services to families and children.

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Life Skills Education
Mentoring Programs
Parenting Skills Classes