Mentoring Advising Tutoring Counseling Helping (MATCH)
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program description
The Mentoring Advising Tutoring Counseling Helping (MATCH) Program is a community-based program that provides goal-directed, highly structured, mentoring services to adolescents referred by the Metropolitan Human Services District (MHSD) Developmental
Disabilities Services Office. The program
is designed to prevent and deter criminal behaviors, to prevent out-of-home placements, and to maintain the safety of the adolescents in their home, school, and community. The program is designed to pair adolescents between the ages of 16 and 22 with professional college students (i.e., persons
19 years of age or older) who offer them
support, consistency, and a chance for
them to develop the knowledge and skills
needed to reach their full potential for
personal growth and independence.
Adolescents are provided a minimum of 10 hours a month for a period of 1 year. The ratio of mentor to adolescent is 1 to 3.The mentoring match is small to ensure the adolescent�s success in the program.
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services provided
- Access to community resources
- Advocacy
- Career guidance
- Counseling
- Evidence-based training
- Job/vocational/educational program placement assistance
- One-to-one mentoring
- Peer group sessions
- Structured recreational group outings
- Tutoring and homework assistance
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goals
- To foster positive self-images and to promote healthy attitudes and behaviors
- To reduce juvenile delinquency, violence, drug abuse, truancy, social competency, and gang participation
- To improve academic performance, reduce school drop-out rates and other high risk behaviors among adolescents while maintaining the safety and well-being of the adolescent in the home, school, and community
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eligibility
The MATCH Program serves adolescents, male or female between the ages of 16 and 22 who have been diagnosed as having mild to moderate needs relating to intellectual development. |
areas served
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