During the mentoring hour, students and mentors can spend time practicing their math and counting skills through everyday activities. Read more about the importance of math skills.
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Have you ever struggled to complete a jigsaw puzzle? Completing a puzzle is a great mentoring activity to engage your student and work through hard things together. Puzzles are meant to be hard, but persevering through this struggle can advance development and help students gain crucial life-long skills. Puzzles Teach Students How to Overcome Challenges
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Can I tell you about Avi a hypothetical, average American 8 year-old child? Avi will be our guide to understanding some important experiences of the average American child…. First, Avi—like all American 8 year-olds at the statistical average—spends about 2 and a half hours a day with some form of screen media, such as YouTube
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As mentors, we have glorious intentions of loving our mentees, of nurturing them, and making a positive difference. Right? The day-to-day reality of this intention may fall short at times, though. If our students are chosen to be in Kids Hope USA because they are vulnerable, the odds may be higher that they may be
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Roger is a reader. A big reader. Tom Clancy, Harlan Coben, Lee Child, The Wall Street Journal, and many others are pleasant companions of his through life. As a Kids Hope Mentor, Roger wonders about reading aloud to his mentee, Zion. Would Zion get as carried away with stories and information about the world as
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Sammy is quick with a smile and quick on his feet. He’s in 3rd grade but his teacher only occasionally reads aloud to his class. He heard more stories in the first few years of school, but those memories are growing dim. Before school, he hadn’t really ever sat on someone’s lap to hear a
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One of the most important things we can do is create a strong and lasting bond with students. It is so significant and powerful to see relationships grow outside of school. Doing something fun and memorable that breaks the routine helps everyone connect. Mentors in Corpus Christi, Texas will be doing that at the beginning
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To discuss the challenges and solutions of protecting at-risk youth in the community, KIDS HOPE USA, a not-for-profit organization seeking to expand its mentorship program in local elementary schools along with local Culver’s owners Chris and Karen Blair, and Tom Blair hosted a clergy lunch on Tuesday, February 28th in Elgin. Attendees included, KIDS HOPE
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A few weeks ago I was invited to Washington D.C. to be a part of a summit Christian organizations involved in mentoring. Thirty-one leaders from all across the country gathered together to discuss how to better mobilize and serve the Church. I’ve been to enough of these types of meetings to look forward to 3 inevitable moments: The moment a story
“But you can count them on one hand, right?” Read More »
This last week alone, Kids Hope USA Director Trainings took place in Colorado, Chicago, and Dallas. When fully developed, the churches training this week will mentor over 800 at-risk children. Children like Fernanda. Fernanda’s life was being written, and the ending was looking predictably grim, with little hope for a positive future. But as you
