Project H.Y.P.E. Mentoring!

Duration: 8-week Pilot. 9/18/2021 – 11/13/2021

Price: NO TICKET COST.

Participants: Students and aspiring mentors

Results: Character skills, leadership skills, business skills

PROJECT H.Y.P.E. is our pilot mentoring program that focus primarily on youth Character and Career Development for middle school students grades 6th to 8th. Mentors and mentees meet weekly on Saturday mornings via Zoom and participate in group mentoring activities. Teachers and counselors help lead the selection process, as they know the students best. Special guests, motivational speakers and sponsors are invited to engage with the students and share relatable experiences.

These mentoring opportunities offers aspiring mentors a chance to build a relationship by offering guidance, support, and encouragement to help the young adult's positive and healthy development over a period of time.

Blu Collar Group strives to provide underserved children and teens the social and educational opportunities to connect with a structured mentorship program where relationships are safe, effective and enduring. “We believe if you can offer them a continuous, genuine, supportive adult that offers guidance and encouragement, you can change their lives!”

Program participants may receive a range of services from the following areas:

• Mentoring
  
• Tutoring
  
• Character & Leadership Development
  
• Financial Literacy Development
  

To participate in this program, a young person must meet one of the following requirements:

1. Deficiency in basic literacy and numeracy skills;
2. Disconnectedness or at-risk of disconnection from school;
3. Disability;
4. low-income family;
5. past, present, or chronic homelessness;
6. foster care or transition out of foster care;
7. pregnancy or parenting;
8. criminal record;
9. court involvement;
10. gang related;
11. substance abuse
12. requires additional assistance to complete education or secure and hold emp