Youth Resilience U Mentoring program is pleased to present a multi-level health resilience program to address substance abuse among farmworker families’ youth and farmworker youth. The program includes life skill training for the participants as well as counseling sessions. Also, each participant will be matched with mentors that will be, for the most part, former substance abusers. They will be in either one-on-one or group mentoring depending on their comfortability level. While one-on-one is seen to be the gold standard in terms of the mentees' privacy and protection, collective mentoring offers an incomparable advantage, such as the camaraderie that can be developed among mentees. Also, mentees can build relationships among themselves, which may foster resilience and render the program more sustainable.
For sustainability purposes and due to the complexity of social issues, the program intends to conduct community events to bring awareness about protective factors for substance abuse. Thus, the communities will be more alert about substance abuse. Also, higher impact results from the program will be used for policy briefs to inform policymakers about not only the living conditions of farmworker youth and youth from farmworker families but also to advocate for better living conditions for such people. To facilitate this process, the organization plans to liaise with sister agencies.
The program will be run by qualified mentors and competent professionals, in high confidentiality and a convivial environment. The only two eligibility criteria are for youth to be between 12 and 24 years old and directly or indirectly involved in agricultural works. The attached poster above presents the contact information for additional details.
by Beatrice F. Pierre on July 31, 2021
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