Student Mentoring

Student Mentoring creates one-to-one relationships between caring Christian adults and at-risk children in local schools. Most of the students we mentor come from difficult backgrounds that include poverty, single-parent homes, parents in prison and a history of abuse and neglect. Mentoring takes just one hour a week to pour into a child's life and has shown to make an enormous difference in the lives of children in our community. Of the students who received a mentor in the 2007/2008 school year, 99.3 percent of them advanced onto the next grade or graduated.

Location

Denton, Texas | Lewisville,Texas | Dallas, Texas

Meeting Times

Minimum 1 hour per week; days and times vary

Partner Organizations

We partner with and provide mentors and resources to the following student mentoring organizations:

Communities in Schools | www.cisnt.org
Denton and Lewisville, Texas
Mentor at-risk public school students.

The Nelson Children's Center | www.nelsonchildrenscenter.org
Denton, Texas
Mentor children who have been physically, sexually and emotionally abused and removed from their parents by CPS. Each of these children live and go to school in a 24-hour a day locked down facility until they have been found mentally and emotionally able to move into the regular foster care system.

Champions of Hope | www.championsofhopedallas.org
Dallas, Texas
Mentor a student from Charles Rice Elementary School in Fair Park-South Dallas. Most students are raised in single parent homes and generational poverty. Meet with your student twice a month. Long term commitment very encouraged (2+ years). Male mentors always needed.

Ways to Serve

• Pray — Pray for the students, teachers and parents at your local schools.
• Mentor — Visit with an at-risk child in our local community for at least one hour per week. More than 2,100 at-risk children exist in Denton, Lewisville and Dallas who are waiting for a mentor. Male mentors are especially needed. Interested in becoming a student mentor?