One-to-One Program
In the One-to-One program, fatherless or motherless children are referred to Long Island Youth Mentoring through a network of both public and private agencies. Once referred, the child and the family are interviewed to determine if the child is appropriate to be matched. If so, we then prayerfully seek to match him or her with a Christian adult whom we have also interviewed, screened and trained through our orientation program. It is important to note that both the child and his/her guardian must desire to establish this mentoring relationship.
Bridges Program
Bridges provides mentoring to foster care children at group homes. LIYM meets with the group home and discusses where the needs and the available resources to meet those needs overlap. LIYM further works with the staff in the home to assess and identify the children who would both want and benefit from a mentoring program. They are in these group foster homes for many reasons: some have no parents and are true orphans; some have been removed because of abuse and others have been sent there by the court system, and still, others are emotionally disabled and unable to function in their own homes for a myriad of reasons. There are about as many reasons as there are children.
