Tag: mentoring
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Tuxedo & Tennis Shoes: Detroit Achievers Awards July 11, 2015 | 5:30 pm at the Boll Family YMCA theatre 1401 Broadway, Detroit, MI 48226 Y Detroit Achievers are professionals who volunteer as role models for Detroit youth. Throughout the service year, Achievers demonstrate the benefits of hard work, service, professionalism, integrity, educational achievement and community…
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Students from the Y Detroit Leadership Academy enjoyed weekly lunches this school year with their Lunch Buddies, a program through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit that matched young people with adult mentors from Quicken Loans.
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Preteens and teens are serving as mentors to young children, participating in service projects and learning about themselves and others as part of the Farmington Family YMCA’s reinvented Teen Camp. It’s all aimed at giving them a sense of leadership and self-worth through focusing on others.
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Brittany Morris was eager to go to college, but wasn’t entirely sure how she was going to make it happen. Her mentors at Metro Youth YMCA were just as determined as she was to see her succeed and stopped at nothing to help her — including finding her transportation to an out-of-state interview and intervening…