Where youth go, mentors are sure to follow . . . and we're banking on it!

Mentoring Programs

At the San Luis Valley Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center, drug, alcohol and tobacco prevention is a growing program. Within those prevention categories is the Mi Animo Prevention (mentoring) program. The staff recognizes that mentoring is key to the successful reduction of these habits.

Mentoring a young person is a way to make a difference in our local communities. Our mentors report a huge increase in their "fun" quotients! Imagine with us for a moment our Valley stocked piled with children and youth reaching for their dreams and in the background an adults friend saying "You can do it!"

What is Mentoring?

What is Mentoring? As a strategy for helping young people succeed in life, mentoring works. [More] What are effective practices of a successful mentoring program? A successful mentoring program incorpates certain checks and balances that both protect children and provide youngsters with a suitable role model. (More)

What are our Mentoring Goals?

What is Regular Mentoring and Intensive Mentoring?
Our Programs

Mi Animo Prevention

This mentoring program is the umbrella program under which all the other mentoring programs develop through the San Luis Valley Mental Health Center's emphasis on prevention.

New in San Luis

Priscilla Ortega, 587-6973 is the contact prevention specialist for this program.

Conejos County Program New at Monte Vista Middle School

Aids Awareness draws questions. Charlotte Ledonne, counselor, answers your questions.

. Suicide, Substance Abuse, and Violence Education--SSAVE is a Valley coalition aimed at preventing suicide. Professionals and teens from are youth coalitions make up the dynamic group. Members have received Yellow Ribbon training. SSAVE-News, the coalition's newsletter is now online. Links for SEADS, US and others are comming soon.

Public Relations

Insights from program

On this page, you'll find thoughts and insights from mentors like Laura Walker and Harry Alejo and others about mentoring, talking with your children and other big ideas. more

 

Mentor and Volunteer of the Month--Mi Animo Prevention and Sí Se Puede regularly honor a mentor for a month.

Priscilla talks about Mi Animo Prevention programs.  

 

(This page is still under construction)

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