Through collaboration with the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice, we are proud to offer the Governors One on One Mentoring Program. Our mentoring program provide volunteers that will spend 2 hours per week or 8 hours per month with a youth. The mentors will provide emotional guidance, a sense of continuity and stability to that youth. During successful mentoring, friendships are developed. Youth also learn to develop social skills, recognize their own strengths and develop their confidence. As a mentor, one may find that a youth may open up in a way that they feel unable to with others.
From a broader perspective, by all estimates, an astounding 17.6 million young people – nearly half the population of young people between 10 and 18 years of age – live in situations that put them at risk of not living up to their potential.
Without immediate intervention by caring adults, they could make choices that not only undermine their futures, but, ultimately, the economic and social well-being of our nation.
