Recreation Director/ Mentor
Yemba
Oak Park, Il
● Design sports curriculum, activities and workshops for mentee's to become knowledgable of various sports, educated and experience participating in a variety of sports● Redesign workshops and activities for mentee's who shows less interest and experience in sports to gain confidence when participating ● Promote YEMBA and recruit mentee’s for the program to gauge their interest, learn their objective of joining to support, provide and guide mentee's through middle school, transition to high school and matriculate through College● Providing leadership opportunities through courses design for mentees to learn, understand and demonstrate community and social responsibilities● Guide one on one coaching to ensure all mentee’s minutes are met in academic, recreation and SEL● Facilitate peace circles, crisis intervention and prevention plans to detour mentee's from being involvement in negative behaviors● Participate in College readiness workshops (completing college applications, FAFSA) and Financial Literacy to educate and mentee’s of and learning how to bank● Support former mentee's matriculate through college by mentoring abroad, campus visits, care packages and local networking/partnering opportunities● Evaluate mentee’s strength and areas of growth from pre/post-test worksheets to better their understanding of life skills ● Conduct SWOT analysis at the conclusion of each program session that shares feedback of Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats to the program ● Participate in on-going trainings to communicate ways of enhancing programming, strategically recruiting more participants and how we can better support our mentee's, families, schools, and communities more