HorizonMind Mentoring Program Curriculum
Every young man and young lady needs a man and/or lady in his/her face challenging him with wisdom regarding the critical issues and decisions in his life. The absence of a positive, mature influence directly contributes to the adolescent crisis occurring in our schools and community. Our mentoring program, offers a solution to this adolescent crisis. It is a mentoring program that pairs one older mature woman/man, with three young maturing young men/women, elementary school age through high school.
The one young man/young woman mentoring three young men and three young ladies concept multiplies the effort, discourages manipulation and unhealthy bonding, and provides an interesting dynamic for interaction. Mentors meet with their mentees for 60 minutes each week throughout the school year at their mentee's school, community center, or church and begin their interaction by reading together and discussing what they have read.
The Vision of the "HorizonMinds Mentoring" Curriculum
• To share wisdom between generations-to expose young men/women to the wisdom of older adult and the elders.
• To provide the opportunity for constructive dialogue and exchange of ideas between the generations.
• To provide an atmosphere for instruction in moral, ethical and responsible living by mature men/women to young men/women.
• To provide boys with traditional wisdom that will help them be successful in life.
• To encourage men to be aware of the struggles of boys and give men something they can specifically do to help.
• To expose young men to mature men/women who can model for them and mentor them is the initial goal. Ultimately, the goal is to lead the young men to a personal commitment to integrity and excellence.
The Curriculum in General
• A comprehensive, concise curriculum for mentoring young men/women.
• Allows agencies to partner with the community to take a proactive position in remedying the moral disintegration and decline among young men and women.
• A structured, practical and pragmatic curriculum that addresses topics that is often hard to discuss otherwise.
• Because of the structured curriculum, the book can be the "villain" that brings up the challenging subjects that need to be discussed.
• Utilized in a small-group setting of one mentor to three boys and/or three girls.
• One sixty minute mentoring session each week (for men/women who will be leaving work to mentor, it is only a one-hour a week commitment inclusive of travel time).
• One chapter from the book is read each week, and the questions and quotations at the end of the chapter are discussed.
• Tutoring services.
• Various topics include: Living in Poverty; Fears and Anxieties That Stop Us In Life; Gangs; How Does Your Size Affect You; Drugs; My First Job; Your Concept of the Work Ethic; I Was Treated Unfairly Today (Prejudice); and many other pertinent topics.
The mentoring program does not target particular schools per-say, all of our youth are at risk and need good adult role models.
Horizonminds Consulting Services, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing cultural and educational services. We tutor and mentor through the wholistic approach. We focus on character education, student's academic deficits, and cultural enrichment. We want to provide fun, inspiring, motivational, and positive educational activities via field trips, tours, and movies.
Students would experience Georgia's Aquarium, Governor's Mansion, State Capital, Fern bank Museum of Natural History, Chattahoochee Nature Center, Calloway Gardens, Mayfield Dairy Farms, Billie Swamp Safari (Florida), Egyptian Pyramids (Africa), and many more.... These are just a few opportunities for global exposure. Our children need to see more than just their communities. They need to know there is a world out there. HorizonMinds understand that most families don't have the resources to travel the world, so we want to be the catalyst to bring the world to the families.