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- Enhances the link between school-bassed academics and mentorship-based, applied, hands-on experience.
- Increases motivation for the mentorship area, for overall academics, and for school in general.
- Improves self-confidence in their mentorship area and overall self-esteem.
- Provides positive role models outside of the school environment.
- Decreases the likelihood of dropping out of school.
- Allows for healthy, constructive observations, and insights into the mentorship area thereby exposing the students tot he not-so-glamorous aspects of the career or interest area.
- Helps define future interests and career goals including possible recreational and leisure activities.
- Adds to the cumulative high school credits earned toward graduation at ASSETS.
- Increases technical knowledge and skill in the mentorship area.
- Reinforces the importance of general job-related skills and abilities (e.g. interview, resume writing, appearance, attendance, reliability, cohesiveness, communication, etc.).
- Offers an excellent opportunity for building a resume.
- Establishes important lifelong community contacts.
- Opens avenues for actual employment.
- Develops short-term and possible lifelong interactions and relationships.
- Offers an opportunity to contribute to the education and welfare of the student.
- Provides the occasion to serve as a positive role model for our youth.
- Allows the nurturance of new and talented individuals who may come to serve as potential employees requiring less training and perhaps even stimulating new ideas.
- Develops short-term and possible lifelong interactions and relationships.
- Provides positive publicity and public relations for the mentor, agency, and organization.
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Provides an avenue for productive, community-based relationships with teens in mutually beneficial situations in which not only the family and school are expected to instill a value system, but the community as well.
- Links community-based agencies such as businesses with the school in a cooperative network.
- Presents a side of their student perhaps never seen before - a student motivated to learn and motivated to talk with them about what he/she is going and is learning.
- Assures parents that the "total" student is being nurtured and served (i.e. academic, social-emotional, transitional, and career-related domains).
- Develops students who are eager to learn, who feel better about themselves, who understand to a greater degree the purposes of an education, and who have at the forefront of their minds what lies ahead after high school.
- Keeps career interests and teachings up-to-date.
- Increases school and civic pride.
- Offers many avenues of community contact and support important to any educational institution.
- Presents a positive, favorable impression to the community, to potential student recruits, etc.
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