Thank you for your interest in Community Connections Mentoring. We provide local youth in kindergarten through seventh grade the opportunity to participate in one-on-one and group activities with an adult who has similar interests. Our mentoring program allows your child to be exposed to a variety of opportunities so that they can build on their unique strengths.
Our one-to-one mentoring includes group activities, monthly Impact lessons, and community service opportunities. Some of the group activities we have sponsored in the past have included horseback riding, roller skating, a tour of KNOP TV station, art projects, kayaking, and archery. Service activities have included flower planting, delivering angel tree gifts, visiting nursing home residents and helping with community projects. All group activities are provided at no cost to you. In addition, our mentors and mentees receive free admission to the Children’s Museum and North Platte Recreation Center, only if they are in attendance with one another.
Impact is a social emotional learning program that brings mentors and mentees together with other mentoring pairs. Discussions, games, and other activities foster self-esteem, growth mindset, appreciation for diversity, critical thinking, communication, problem solving and drug prevention skills. This monthly event is open to all youth enrolled in Community Connections Mentoring and may be attended with or without the mentor and while waiting to be matched.
Typically, we encourage our mentors to spend at least four hours a month with their mentee. We ask our mentors to make a one year commitment to this relationship. Often times this connection lasts beyond this one year. All mentors in our program go through an application and background screening process before being placed into a mentoring relationship with a youth.
Mentors help reinforce doing well in school, and making good decisions. Children who have had the opportunity to spend time with a mentor typically improve their grades and have increased self-esteem. Our mentoring program offers a wonderful opportunity to enhance what you already do for your child by giving them additional exposure to another adult that wants to help your child be all they want to be.
We, at Community Connections, strive to be a diverse and inclusive organization that will empower individuals, elevate youth, strengthen our communities, and create a better world for us all