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Franklin Square DREAM Quarterly Report October - December 2014
Greetings from DREAM! In the past three months, the Franklin Square program has been alive and well. With exciting activities like basketball with the college team and ice skating, youth have been able to become very close with the mentors. The program has paired up new members and is ready to begin another semester of meaningful mentoring! Highlights from the quarter include:
This quarter the program recruited 5 new kids and 10 new mentors! Early this quarter several mentors worked at the Ben and Jerry’s Factory as a way to raise money for their program. Through their efforts they raised a combined $360 for their program! Mentors invited Sumeya, a teen representative, to a mentor meeting at the beginning of the year to provide her thoughts and ideas to the group. She came to the first meeting that new mentors attended and shared her thoughts with the group on how important it is to be consistent with your mentee. She also shared some ideas for culminating and ways to improve the program. Her presence was so valuable and mentors new and old appreciated her thoughts!
Weekly Programming:
One Friday this quarter the group went to North Beach to eat S’mores and play! The group went to Alliot, the college dining hall, one Friday to eat dinner together. Afterwards they frolicked outside where some tween girls taught mentors some awesome new dance moves! One Friday the DREAMers teamed up with the college basketball team. The mentees loved playing basketball with the student players! As Halloween landed on a DREAM Friday this year, mentors and mentees celebrated by trick or treating on campus at St. Mikes and then had a Halloween Party. The first Friday after new mentors and mentees got matched was spent doing one on ones so the new pairs could have some bonding time. One Friday mentors worked together to cook up a delicious Thanksgiving feast to share with their mentees. The most popular DREAM Friday of the semester was ice skating at Leddy Park. Youth and mentors alike loved it, and it was amazing to see how good some of those kids were at ice skating!
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