What is AmeriCorps Mentors?
Education Alliance AmeriCorps Mentors is a dropout prevention mentor-based intervention that addresses student attendance, behavior, and course performance. This program enables 40 AmeriCorps mentors to provide more than 17,000 mentoring sessions to 775 at-risk students in grades 3-12. These sessions help students develop positive attitudes towards school and learning, problem solving, social skills, note taking, homework help and time management. Mentors leveraged the support of 450 community volunteers from local business and community organizations to engage students in job-shadowing activities and extended learning opportunities.
For more information contact Emily Pratt at 304-342-7849 (phone) or emily@educationalliance.org.
