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Madison Park Village DREAM Monthly Snapshot February 2015 Program Happenings and Highlights • • The Northeastern Mentors implemented their recruitment process and successfully added 10+ new DREAMY mentors. New mentors who were recruited last fall got to take part in the interview process and deciding who got to be a DREAM mentor. In addition to this success they were about to recruitment more which is always a challenge. • The Co-chairs and mentors participated in the Boston Office’s annual DREAMstock. The group presented on how they go about their recruitment process: tabling at their school, the interview process, and the decision making process. • This program is still helping the Boston DREAM Office as we continue transiting Orchard Gardens to a new group of Northeastern Students.
Participants Mentees
Mentors
Total: 36
Total: 40
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Females: 17 Males: 19
Females: 25 Males: 15
Weekly Programming with Children • •
February 6th – the older boys participated in one-on-one activities with their mentors as well as group activities. The younger boys went on campus and participated in board games. The younger girls split into two groups and went bowling or to the MFA. The older girls participated in one-on-one activities with their mentors and also went to the MFA.
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February 13th – in the spirit of Valentine’s Day the mentors created Valentine theme like activities to do. The younger girls did arts and crafts in the community center, the older girls put their cooking skills to the taste and baked come awesome treats, the younger boys were on campus watching movies and doing arts and crafts while the older boys spent one-on-one time with their mentors February 20th – the younger boys went to the aquarium while others went to Sky Zone with the older boys. The mentees who went to the aquarium enjoyed themselves and wanted to come back. The younger girls and older girls went to see the Spongebob movie at AMC Lowes. Who doesn’t love Spongebob? February 27th –the older girls took a trip to the Prudential Center. The younger girls participated in Dance led by a mentor as well as got some exercise in with some zumba. The older boys went to the game room and spent some one-on-one time while the younger boys went to IV. The younger boys have a lot of energy.!
Thank you for your ongoing support of DREAM. If you would like additional or more detailed information, please contact me by email or by phone. DREAM big, Rei Champion Program Director rei@dreamprogram.org 617-699-8408