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INNOVATIVE MATCH SUPPORT Getting ready to serve special populations of youth

INNOVATIVE MATCH SUPPORT Getting ready to serve special populations of youth. Michael O’Teter, Vice President of Program, BBBS Lone Star Katy White & Jen Walper Roberts, Dare Mighty Things. Introductions. Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star.

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INNOVATIVE MATCH SUPPORT Getting ready to serve special populations of youth

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  1. INNOVATIVE MATCH SUPPORTGetting ready to serve special populations of youth Michael O’Teter, Vice President of Program, BBBS Lone Star Katy White & Jen Walper Roberts, Dare Mighty Things

  2. Introductions Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star • Headquartered in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area, with 14 regional offices in communities across all of north, west-central and east Texas, as well as the Greater Houston community • Serving almost 10,000 children with a mentor each year Dare Mighty Things, Inc. • Consulting company specializing in performance management solutions for those working with vulnerable populations • Serving as an outside evaluator for the Caruth Foundation

  3. Caruth Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Initiative Goals: • Pilot an effective approach to prevent and reduce crime in Dallas County • Advance the frontier on successful intervention with high-risk children and youth Target Populations: • Children at-risk for early academic failure • Truant adolescents • Adjudicated adolescents

  4. House In Order Infuse Educational Strategies Retain Match support Specialists Develop School Partnerships

  5. What have you tried? …to develop and retain high-quality match support specialists (mentoring managers/supervisors)? … to infuse school-connectedness strategies into your mentoring program? …to develop school partnerships?

  6. Enhance Standing of MSS

  7. Educational Support

  8. Raising the Bar

  9. Faith Partnerships

  10. Corporate Partnerships

  11. mentor2.0

  12. Over to You!How can we build upon these foundations to meet the needs of youth who have been truant or adjudicated? Community Based Mentoring Table Discussion mentor2.0 Table Discussion

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