2. Main
Goal
Our goal is to use mentorship to
assist at risk youth through
economic, family, and educational
problems.
3. The Vision:
Leading Figures
- Having a caring mentor for at
risk youth helps influence them
to avoid risky behavior and
focus on academics
4. Continued About Leading Figures
We Mentor Ages 9-18
We assist in
Personal advice
Financial literacy
Driving to school
HW help
Volunteers ≥14 yrs old, volunteer credit earned
Target area: Long Beach
Partners: Big Brothers Big Sister and Pizza Hut
5. Background Info on Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Has existed for 100+ yrs
- Realize potentials, and build futures
- Positive relationships
- Caring role models brought into lives of
children
- Impacts more than 1,500 children and
youths
- Big Brothers Big Sisters provide
mentors to spend one-on-one time with
6. Single Parent and Low-Income Households
U.S. has highest % of single parents
8% of male single parents unemployed
20% of female single parents
unemployed
40% of single parent households live
below poverty line
Nearly 70% single mothers live in
poverty
63% of suicides are individuals who
come from a single parent family
8. Children Struggle
¼ of kids in America raised by single
parent
Single parenting = primary cause of:
School failure
Delinquency
Twice as likely to get a divorce
Drug/Alcohol use
Teen pregnancy
Poverty
Welfare dependency
Abusive or Anti-Social behavior
Teens from SPHs account for 72% of
teen murders + 60% rape crimes
9. Leading Figures Specifics
Location for the event: Avalon Middle
School(in Long Beach)
Time: 3:30PM-5:30PM Mon + Wed
What will happen at HQ:
HW help
Mentoring
Counseling
Financial literacy
Games(After homework of course)
10. Action Plan
1. Pitch facility request to Avalon Middle School principal
2. Reach out to Avalon Middle School PTA
3. Contact Long Beach Unified School District high schools
4. Advertise in schools (posters, school newspapers, etc.)
5. Partner with Pizza Hut
6. Get materials for facility
a. School materials
b. Board games
11. Implementation at Home
With Big Brother Big Sister:
● Donate
● Support
● Volunteer
● Contact sponsor(Mrs. Kathleen Stanley)
With Our Local Schools
Contact the school (pta, principal, etc) for
advertising at the school
Also contact to hold special events (school
dances, fundraisers, etc) and to recruit
students to volunteer
This graph shows the amount of single parent families over the years. Because this number has only risen this means that more and more kids have been put at risk.
Thank you Berkeley. Our slogan for our program is spreading smiles from child to child and Ourvideo leading figures shows Riley being a bad romodel to his younger brother About school not being important. On the other hand Berkeley Hanna's dad is supporting her through our leading figures program and hanna is enjoying it. Even though hanna is getting teased by Riley about doing to program but she continuwe to do the program. Now I am passing the project to hanna to talk about our sources.