Mentor Club – Launching?
Making Moments Matter Monthly
(New Group Mentoring Option)
The national For The Children – Royal Family KIDS office has created a new program option. It’s a minimized version of Mentor Club.
– Group Mentoring without the individual mentoring component.
– Meet locally in town, once per month, during the school year (6-9 months) for about 2-3 hours.
– Guardians drop off and pick up the child each month.
– Monthly meetings will include: Ice Breakers, Music, Bible Stories, Puppet Script, Activities, Snacks, Connection Corners (TBRI “Nurture Groups”)
– Must have 1 adult volunteer for every 2 children at each monthly meeting.
– Unlike the typical Mentoring Club option, this new option does not assign an individual mentor to each child.
– This new option would be open to all foster children in our area (between 7 and 11), regardless of whether they’ve attended camp. (Our chapter would give priority to previous campers.)
– The number of children accepted would depend on the number of volunteers who commit, the space of the facility where we’d meet, and the amount of funds raised.
– The goal is to launch Mentor Club just after the beginning of the school year, if we have enough volunteers.
Needed:
– A Team of 3 Directors/Leaders
**** Must complete an online training course
**** Must attend (1) 2-hour zoom call
– ALL volunteers who will serve at the monthly meetings must attend a local Volunteer Training (Returning Camp Volunteers: 3 hours; New Volunteers: 6 hours)
Who Can Volunteer?
Anyone will be welcome to apply. You do not need to have attended camp and do not need to be 18-years-old. All volunteers will be required to complete an online application, a background check, an in-person interview (this may be waived if you’ve served at Royal Family KIDS Camp in the past), and 3-6 hours of training.
Next Steps
We need to know ASAP if we have enough folks interested/willing to join this team to Make Moments Matter Monthly. If you’d like to sign up or are interested in more information, please CLICK HERE to let us know!
Want more info??? Mentoring Q&A Livestream with Mentoring Director Molli Patterson
Date: Wednesday, August 18th
Time: 4:30pm – 5:30pm
As ever, we appreciate your prayers for the foster children in our community, and all children experiencing hardship. Please continue to pray for wisdom and divine guidance for our leadership.
For the Children,
Jess
On behalf of our Leadership Team: Julia Fielding, Patty L’Amie, Becky Lowsley, Jess McCloud, Carri Urquhart
*If you haven’t heard, we have a new website to go with our new name. Those can be found below. Our old website and chapter email address will no longer work after August . To learn more about our new name, click here.
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Jess McCloud, Chapter Director
For The Children – Cowlitz & Wahkiakum | Royal Family KIDS Camp #372
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