Mentor Program

Our Mentor Program provides positive female role models and strong support structures to motivated teenage girls who are ready to explore who they are and discover their community at large. Girls attending The Vaird Mentoring Program ages 12 and older are eligible to participate in our program.

Selected professional law enforcement women are carefully screened and then matched by our board of directors with the most compatible girls. This program is a year-long commitment between the mentor and mentee. Each month, mentor and mentees spend between six and eight hours together, participating in fun and enriching activities throughout the Philadelphia area. Activities range from visiting museums, seeing a play, bike riding, ice skating, bowling, and helping with homework to tasting a variety of ethnic foods or exploring new neighborhoods.

As we get to know one another and build their friendship, the mentors have an opportunity to share their life experiences and the mentee has a chance to learn from someone they can relate to about life, how to handle difficult situations and how to prepare for their future goals.

Mentors often find the program to be far more than a chance “to give back” and have said the relationship they’ve developed have brought as much change and positive impact to their lives as to their mentees.

Mentor Program Goals:

• Increase girls’ sense of self worth.
• Improve girls’ perspective toward education.
• Help girls develop and define their short-term and long-term goals.
• Provide them with positive support and encouragement.
• Help them become self-sufficient, motivated adults.