MENTORING
A mentor is a caring adult who through friendship, acceptance, and support, models the love of God to a youth in our community. In partnership with Family Guidance, Aliquippa Impact offers a community-based mentoring program for youth in the community. Mentors commit to spending a minimum of two to four hours a week with a student for a minimum of one year. However, most of our mentors and youth decide to continue with the program well beyond the one year mark because the experience has proven to be so mutually positive.
In addition to a community based mentoring program, we launched an in-school mentoring program at the Aliquippa Elementary School this fall.
AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM (ASP)
The After-School Program is designed to provide a safe space for young people after-school. 1-6th graders complete daily homework assignments, engage in education enrichment class to improve literacy and composition skills, participate in STEAM activities, and eat dinner together.
Pathways to purpose (p2p)
Our desire is to provide long term holistic support to the young people of Aliquippa from 1st grade through high school graduation. Youth transition into Pathways To Purpose (P2P) when they enter middle/high school. P2P empowers middle and high school youth toward self discovery to make informed choices about their future.
Our young people receive in-school support, peer-to-peer interaction on Wednesday evenings, and one-on-one relationship support with their P2P leader. Youth will cultivate a sense of purpose, increase their self-esteem, and have an optimistic view of their future when opportunities are available to them and they receive the necessary support to achieve their goals.
CITY CAMP
Our City Camp program operates in St. Titus of Aliquippa and serves approximately 70 students from 1st-6th grade. The program runs for eight weeks during the summer months and provides healthy, wholesome activities for young people during a time of year when idle time poses a threat to our youth.
During City Camp, students have the opportunity to participate in a variety of positive youth development activities including exposure to the developmental assets, recreational activities, art and media activities, field trips, multi-cultural exposure and other educational activities. All day campers have the opportunity to attend Promise Camp during the summer. City Camp is highly engaging, hands-on, and full of energy. Each summer our summer staff operates City Camp while building relationships in the city.