Text Box: Mentoring Benefits for Students With a mentor you will: -Have a caring adult friend outside the family. -Have someone you can talk to who will listen. -Receive guidance, friendship, and helpful advice. -Have help in decision making and reaching goals. -Meet 1 hour a week. -Do fun and helpful activities. Text Box: Mentoring Benefits for Parents With a mentor you can expect: -Increased chance for your child’s success. -Additional emotional support for your child. -Help in making the child as good as he or she can be. -An additional positive caring adult role model. -Encouragement of positive behavior for the young person. Text Box: Mentoring Benefits for Mentors As a mentor you will be: -Helping a child reach his or her full potential. -Passing on what you received from mentors in your past. -Sharing an hour a week to encourage a child to believe in himself or herself. -Bettering your community. -Receiving training and support of other mentors. Are You Thinking About Becoming A Mentor?

Benefits to the Mentor:

  -Enhanced self-image of being competent and helpful to youth

  -Satisfaction of enriching a child’s life by helping a him or her reach full potential

  -Increased patience and feelings of accomplishment and effectiveness

  -Insight on the life of a youth

  -Satisfaction of bettering the community

  -Training and support of other mentors

Why is Official Mentoring Needed?

  -Peer Pressure

  -Substance Abuse

  -Broken Homes

  -Fewer Consequences

  -Less Discipline

  -More High Risk Behaviors

Mentor Responsibilities:

  -Attend one training/orientation session (3-4 hours)

  -Undergo background check

  -Attend weekly 1 hour mentoring sessions (taking place from 3-4 at school)

  -Maintain commitment, consistency, and confidentiality

  -Believe in the positive potential of a child

  -Give guidance/direction when appropriate

  -Maintain contact with CHAMPS coordinators

  -HAVE FUN

What is Mentoring?

  The CHAMPS Mentoring Program, is a free organization, in which a caring

   adult meets with an at-risk youth to:

    -encourage that youth to believe in himself or herself

    -help that child reach his/her full potential

    -pass on what the mentor received from the positive role model in his/her past

    -spend time with a child going to the Park Center, crafting, bowling, etc.

Mentor’s Choices:

  -age of the youth they wish to mentor

  -school they wish to mentor in

  -matching of their talents to the specific needs of the child

  -gender of the youth they wish to mentor
You Are Needed. Please Consider Becoming A Mentor.Do you know a child who would benefit from having a mentor?

Click below for a referral form.

Referral Form

Mentor training occurs once a month. For the next available training contact Jeanette Klobe or Brandie Koenig at 547-1292.

Helping Today’s Youth Become Tomorrow’s Leaders.

The CHAMPS (Communities Helping Adolescents Mature Positively & Successfully) Mentoring Program for at-risk, in school (grades K-12), Perry County youth was established in 1999.  This program allows adult volunteers, who have successfully completed a background check and mentor training, to offer support and guidance to at-risk youth on a weekly basis.  During this time the volunteers are encouraged to help build the youth’s self-esteem, and help them make educated decisions about their future.  To promote healthy, fun interaction between the youth and mentor, the CHAMPS Program has supplied passes to Knights of Columbus Bowling Center, the Park and Recreation Center and Blevins Archery.  Other opportunities include crafting, martial arts instruction, and life-skills training.  Youth and mentors are involved in activities which provide service to others such as the Fall Leaf Raking Project where yards of elderly or disabled persons are raked, and the Summer Service Project which assists the residents at Shannon's Neighborhood , a facility for the developmentally disabled.  These project provide both youth and mentors with the pride and satisfaction of helping others less fortunate than themselves.  Mentors are provided with liability insurance through this program, and policies have been created to protect mentors and mentees from getting in situations which would increase liability risks.

CHAMPS Mentoring

Perry County Community Task Force