Sentences with phrase «matched older mentors»

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study evaluated the efficacy of Across Ages, a school - based Philadelphia project that matched older mentors with middle school students.

Not exact matches

I love this post — my husband and I just took a one - weekend training with KidSave.org (an amazing organization that matches people with older kids / teens in L.A. County to be «hosted» as «weekend miracles» — just one weekend a month for a year — and help mentor the kids and support them through advocacy and perhaps help them get adopted, or adopt them later yourself).

The boy and his mentor are a perfect match: the older man's appreciative eye is fuel for the vanity of the young stud - in - the - making, who asks in a pleading voice, «Hey, how was I?»

When she is forced by her landlord to deal with her neglected garden or face eviction, she meets her nemesis, match and mentor in Alfie Stephenson (Tom Wilkinson), a grumpy, loveless, rich old man who lives next door and happens to be an amazing horticulturalist.

Wilderpeople is an unconventional spin on the tried - and - true old mentor meeting his younger match that manages to be action packed, unpredictable and heartfelt without veering into the saccharine territory oft trod by coming of age stories.

So they hit on an idea: match up every 9th grader with an older student as a mentor.