The DREAM Program, Madison Park, September 2013

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The Madison Park Village DREAM Update September 2013

Welcome to the fall and a new year at DREAM! The mentors and mentees were so excited to see one another after the summer and have a great time together.

DREAM Programming: 

9/13: (15 mentees, 19 mentors): The activities this week included football and capture the flag for the younger mentees and walking through shops in the Prudential center for the older girls.

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9/20: (13 mentees, 15 mentors): We continued to take advantage of the beautiful late summer weather with more outdoor games on Northeastern green! A group of older mentees explored the Prudential area with their mentors.

 9/27: (15 mentees, 13 mentors): This Friday was spent decorating the Northeastern campus with chalk art, playing Frisbee, and enjoying other outdoor games. The older boys played kickball together with mentors in

Madison Park.

Program Development: Recruitment: The mentors spent September working on recruitment strategy and hosting information sessions. They also reached out to their networks to find dedicated and excited new mentors!

DREAM Office:

41 Dearborn St., Roxbury, MA 02119 | (617) 699-8408 | boston@dreamprogram.org

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Old Colony Program Development: Rachel, Jason and I have been in communication with the staff at the Tierney Learning Center in Old Colony this month. The selection for our college partner for Old Colony should be made very soon.

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Strategic Plan to recruit a more diverse mentor base: I, Asha, am working on this Plan as part of my project scope this year. So far, this has included researching power and privilege trainings and doing some drafting of the Plan’s structure.

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Youth and Parent Surveys: Katie, J and I are all working to follow-up with youth and families about the youth and parent surveys necessary for Katie’s Massachusetts Promise Fellow youth evaluation.

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Northeast Regional Youth Mentoring Conference 2013: Regional Director, Rachel Lieberman and Executive Director, Mike Loner presented DREAM’s ”Village Mentoring” program model at the 2013 Northeast Regional Youth Mentoring Conference. We’re thrilled that we had the opportunity to share what we do here at DREAM with the rest of the mentoring community.

Keep DREAMing!

Asha Carter Program Empowerment Director AmeriCorps Highland Street Corps Ambassador of Mentoring The DREAM Program 41 Dearborn Street Roxbury, MA 02119 Asha@dreamprogram.org