MENTOR RECRUITING - 2017

WHAT A SUMMER THIS HAS BEEN!

For a LONG time we have known the key to a teen's success upon release from custody is the support he or she has in the community.  In years past it was up to the ‘preacher lady' to connect with teens in placement in the Williamson County Juvenile Facility in order to build relationships, all the while hoping that the connection made was strong enough to be passed to a mentor when the teen was released.  
 
After a couple of years, we started to take in some volunteers for special events, life skill classes, and Christmas parties.  As a result,  the teens made limited connections with other adults, but it still wasn’t enough.  The vision that God gave for re-entry mentoring was much more involved -- mentors and teens having time to build trust and relationships long before the teens were faced with the decisions and temptations of being in their old neighborhoods.

Reset pushed to have mentors assigned earlier in the child’s placement so they could go in to meet and visit with their teens at least a few times before they were released.  But the teens needed more.  All that changed this summer. True re-entry mentoring took off like a rocket and all we could do was hold on while God fulfilled the vision and promise He made seven years earlier!

For the last four months we have been given unprecedented access to teens inside the Williamson County Juvenile Justice System.  The teens can sign up for mentors as part of their initial intake packet, and we begin looking for mentors immediately.   We are also hosting two ‘Sunday Fundays’ a month during which the mentors go into the facility to build relationships and get to know the teens in a non-threatening, totally fun environment.  The more positive adult interaction the teens have, the stronger the safety net under them when they are released.  

SHAMELESS PLUG!  MEN -- WE NEED YOU!  Four hours a week to show a young man, many with no fathers in their homes, how to become a man of honor and integrity.  It is the hardest job you’ll ever LOVE!

In addition to earlier connection with mentors and Sunday Fundays, we have also been able to take teens to conferences (WAVE Teen Conference, Calibrate Men’s Conference, and Radiant Woman’s Conference).   Where many, nine to be exact, have followed their profession of faith into the water to be baptized. Just like in your own home, one size doesn’t fit all.  Reset Mentoring has worked to provide many opportunities to reach and connect with teens where they are.  Through life skills classes, weekly church services, letter writing, Sunday Fun Days, as well as job placement assistance, college and trade school placement, and community service, we are broadening the teens' horizons and setting them up to continue to take their next best steps away from painful pasts and forward into the lives for which they were truly created!

If you would like more information about becoming a mentor, please click on the button below.  Currently, we are especially in need of mentors in the Taylor/Hutto area.  Please feel free to forward this email to anyone you know who might make a great mentor.  ​

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