Build 0016 - 4 May 2011 || Built by Haas, Meece, and Rupp while Students at Ridgewater.

• Improves school attendance and performance – leading to increased graduation rates, increased postsecondary education, and higher lifetime earnings
• Reduces truancy – resulting in reduced school costs and, ultimately, reduced high school dropouts and increase lifetime earnings
• Improves health outcomes – including reductions in teen pregnancy, reduced or delayed use of tobacco, alcohol, or illicit drugs
• Reduces juvenile crime (both violence and property crimes) – saving victim costs, court costs, and costly treatment of juvenile offenders
• Reduces costs of adult crime – both the crime losses of victims and the societal costs of prosecuting and incarcerating adult offenders
• Reduces needs for social services – both near-term costs of counseling and long-term costs of public assistance

• Duration: Minimum of 1 – 2 years.
• Frequency: Minimum of 2 face-to-face visits per month with a goal of 4-contact hours per month.
• Quarterly Mentor Meetings/Training (optional-but recommended)
• Monthly Group Activities (optional)

How to Apply

• Complete Application
• Background Check
• Interview with LAMP-Kinship staff
• Initial training
• Match with child