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The Y offers multiple leadership programs in safe, welcoming environments throughout the city and Chicagoland area. By providing young adults the opportunity to learn and grow, we create healthier, stronger communities!
Girls on the Run's Heart & Sole middle school program is designed to meet the unique needs of 6th-8th grade girls of all abilities. The program considers the whole person - body, brain, heart, spirit, and social connection. Heart & Sole offers an inclusive place of belonging, where participants feel supported and inspired to explore their emotions, cultivate empathy, and strengthen their physical and emotional health. At the end of the season, all team members complete a 5K.
City on the Hill Youth Foundation's mentoring services provide initial education in the fundamentals of relationship building and effective communication. Their mentors help youth plan a suggested course of action for their futures and careers, providing feedback when needed.
Link Mentoring Program - guidance, support and encouragement for youth from adult mentors.
Provide in-person and online events, college student mentoring services for blind, visually impaired and dyslexic students.

Services

Mentoring Programs
Provides mentorship and support for individuals who experienced human trafficking and exploitation. A comprehensive assessment will be completed to determine a plan for each individual to help move towards their life goals.
Free, one-to-one emotional support from a professionally trained Mentor with similar lived experience to anyone impacted by breast cancer, anywhere, at any stage. All services are virtual (phone or online) and are available anytime from diagnosis, through treatment, and into survivorship.
The CHAMPS (Communities Helping Adolescents Mature Positively & Successfully) Mentoring Program is for at-risk, school-age youth (grades K-12), in Perry County. This program allows adult volunteers, who have successfully completed a background check and mentor training, to offer support and guidance to at-risk youth on a weekly basis. During this time the volunteers are encouraged to help build the youth�s self-esteem, and help them make educated decisions about their future while offering healthy, fun interaction between the youth and mentor.
Provides mentoring services to youth with emotional disturbances and support to their families through parenting education and counseling in home.
Provides mentoring assistance to children.
BUDS Youth Mentoring Program: Mentors provide at-risk youth with a role model and friend to offer encouragement, guidance and increased connections to the community.
Community Based Mentoring Program: Provides one-to-one mentoring to children by matching them with an adult role model. Mentoring is based upon goals such as but not limited too building self-confidence, improving relationships, improving decision making skills, expressing feelings, engaging in new activities, experiences, and opportunities.
Young Parents provides mentored support and encouragement to pregnant and parenting youth between the ages of 14 and 21. These young adults are paired with trained volunteer mentors who support the young adult through the challenging time of pregnancy, childbirth, and the first years of the baby's life. Young Parents also offers parenting classes, life skills training and monthly support meetings.
A mentoring program that pairs pregnant and parenting young mothers with experienced mothers. Mentors provide encouragement and support while the young mothers continue their education or work endeavors. Activities are held to promote the physical and social growth of mother and child which may include play/exercise groups. Group meetings provide parenting skills, care issues, safety, and health education.
Professional service to children by matching them with an adult volunteer who serves as a role model and companion.
Professional service to children by matching them with an adult volunteer who serves as a role model and companion.
Kid Contact and Y Tutors provide afternoon support and mentoring at a local child care center and a center for children in 1st–8th grade.
Individuals with disabilities are provided with peer role models one-to-one or group setting with others with similar disabilities.
Provides on-going mentoring for females who have a positive pregnancy test and for male partners of females with a positive pregnancy test.
Volunteers mentor elementary school age children in reading.
Mentoring program to help transition persons out of poverty.
Provides a mentoring program for pregnant women and their partners.
Adult Mentor/Student Mentor/Tutor Program: High School students and adults are assigned to Elementary Level students who are identified by school officials as "at-risk" on a one-to-one basis for the purpose of providing a positive role model and promoting academic success.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago offers youth mentoring programs by matching "littles" with "bigs". Each match is unique and creates a schedule that works for them. Their professionally trained staff provide support and outing ideas during the entire duration of the match. During outings, Bigs and Littles do everyday activities that provide children with the opportunity to discover a world of possibilities for their life.
Lawndale Christian Community Church Investment Mount Lion offers youth mentoring for boys that focuses on resilience, relationships, communication, support, and knowledge.

Services

Adult/Child Mentoring Programs