Special September 2008 Announcement:
Please particpate in a unique fundraiser called Color 4 Kidz / Mustache for Cash.
Here's the scoop: For an entire month, friend of Mark Whistler Gallery Yuko Aoyagi will dye her hair a crazy color to raise money for at-risk youth in the Denver Metro area.
ALL funds will go to Colorado Youth at Risk
Click HERE to make a contribution! Thank you!!!
About Colorado Youth at Risk
Colorado Youth at Risk empowers teenage students to make life choices that positively impact their future through community-based mentoring and intensive training.
Colorado Youth at Risk aims to reduce the number of high school dropouts, match students with an adult mentor and provide students with a sense of the future and their place in that future.
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Programs include:
Steps Ahead for Youth
Steps Ahead for Youth is conducted in partnership with several Denver schools. More than one program is operational at a time, depending on the needs of the youth and resources available.
- The program sets itself apart from other mentoring organizations by delivering the following:
- Both community and one-on-one mentoring
- Launch course retreat in the mountains
- High ropes course experience
- A 12-month series of community workshop sessions for mentors and youth
- Step One is the launch course, which gives the youth an opportunity to examine their lives away from their influential environment and confront past issues. Relationships between youth and mentors are developed and strengthened.
- Step Two happens when the youth and mentor are paired one-on-one. Mentoring provides support for the youth to stay engaged and accomplish the goals that they create for themselves.
- Step Three includes a series of community workshops which provide structure and a place to practice the core principles that were introduced at the launch course.
Touchstone
Touchstone is a program for young people who complete the
Steps Ahead for Youth program. It is a program designed to provide the youth with the support and guidance that they require from 9th grade through high school graduation.
Youth in Touchstone focus on personal development and their future. Those that participate in the Touchstone Program demonstrate increased personal responsibility, strengthened relationships and an understanding of their personal vision and goals.
There are several places for adults and youth to participate in Touchstone:
- Career & Skills Development
This area is a fun place for adults to share career skills with youth. Whether it is sharing your field of expertise, helping a young person to prepare for college or tutoring. The opportunities for youth and volunteers are endless and flexible.
- Youth Facilitation Training
Youth have an opportunity to develop leadership and facilitation skills through speaking opportunities and the Leadership Academy Program
- Continued training for Steps Ahead Graduates & their Mentors
Ongoing Touchstone meetings support relationships between youth and mentors through ongoing training and support of existing goals.
CONTACT INFORMATION
For general information or to support Colorado Youth at Risk, please call 303.623.9140.
Colorado Youth at Risk
1156 Delaware Street
Denver, CO 80204
303.623.9140 phone
303.623.9139 fax
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