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Mentoring:
Legacy International Life Center & Campus Inc. mentoring program is a program that has been in development for many years, our director Bill Hill, a former professional football player with the Dallas Cowboys, the New Jersey Generals, Cleveland Browns, Ottawa Rough Riders and drafted as a baseball player by the New York Mets, our staff of volunteers are all professional people that have all volunteered their time, energy, effort and gained countless years of experience in working with youth. The staff of the mentoring program firmly believe in our mission statement that second chances are free.. but we want to give our youth the opportunity to get it right the first time, so that the student can become the teacher.
In a bill introduced in 2009 The Mentoring America's Children Act of 2009 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to make miscellaneous changes to the Mentoring grant program under title IV that include: (1) improvement of school connectedness and character education among mentoring's purposes; (2) corporations, universities, and other entities among program providers; (3) a requirement that mentors help children become responsible and successful adults; (4) suburban children in high crime areas and children living in high gang involvement, drug use, or dropout areas among those most in need of mentoring;
Relationships
- One-third of teens and 20% of younger children lack quality relationships with their parents
- Only 8% of young people ages 6 to 17 have a formal mentor
- More than 40% of young people ages 8-21 say they would like an adult to turn to for assistance.
Safety:
A location that allows the youth to feel physically and emotionally safe, allowing a healthy balance between unstructured, structured, and supervised activities.
- Between one-fourth and one-third of all young people “never” or only “sometimes” feel safe at school and in their communities
- Only four in 10 young people participate in quality activities teaching needed skills or how to,or not make a decision, how to form lasting relationships with others.
- Less than half of parents of children under 18 say that affordable after-school activities are available in their communities

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