The SHIELD Mentor Program aims to address challenges facing youth today through effective mentoring. Research shows mentoring is associated with greater academic achievement, social skills, and positive outcomes. The program seeks to match youth with community mentors to help guide them towards opportunities and goals. It aims to reduce high-risk behaviors and the dropout rate in Guilford County schools through character building, decision making, conflict resolution and social skills development.
3. Effective,
high-quality and enduring mentoring is
associated with the capacity for youth to engage in
high-quality social relationships, to have greater
academic achievement, school engagement, school
adjustment, and to view their futures more positively
(Rhodes, Spencer, Keller, Liang, & Noam, 2006).
Prevents and reduces high risk behaviors such as
adolescent aggression, and increases interpersonal
skills, self esteem and more positive long-term
outcomes (Resnick, 2000)
Decreasesaffiliation with violent peers, improves
school achievement, and contributes to abstention
from drugs and alcohol (Rhodes et al, 2000; Sipe, 2002)
9. Our mission it to:
Promote a mentoring spirit while matching
youth with community role models. Youth
live in a world full of wonderful
opportunities; the goal is to give them
proper guidance to obtain them.
10. Goal
setting skills – to establish objectives
towards an aspired future
Character building – to have positive beliefs
and values
Social skills- to articulate among a group
Conflict resolution – to mediate conflict fairly
Decision-making skills- to make positive
choices