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Friends of the Children
(513) 354-5648
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Friends of the Children
is a Family Service initiative for school-age
children at-risk. Based on a program founded in Portland, Oregon, Friends
of the Children provides our most vulnerable children with an adult role
model who develops an intensive, one to one, long-term relationship with
each child.
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Program Highlights
- The Friends program offers vulnerable children
beginning in first grade an opportunity to realize and act upon their unique
potential and inherent worth by providing a full-time, paid, professional
adult Friend to each child through twelfth grade. Friends spend four hours a
week with each child.
- The children selected are those who are most in danger
of school failure, abuse, neglect, juvenile delinquency, gang and drug
involvement and teenage pregnancy.
- This intervention insures that each child served will
have at least one positive, consistent and supportive adult in his or her
life.
- Studies have shown that a close and healthy
relationship with an adult is one of the strongest single protective factors
a child can have to grow up successfully.
Program goals
We set three clear , measurable long-term goals for our
children:
- Graduate from high school with a positive plan for
the future.
- Avoid early parenting.
- Avoid involvement in the criminal justice system.
Intermediate goals guide us along the way:
- Develop social skills with adults, peers, and member
of our community.
- Improve mental and emotional health.
- Learn to make good choices regarding behavior and
peer pressure.
- Attend school regularly and make consistent progress,
academically and behaviorally.
- Improve health care (physical, mental, and when
appropriate, reproductive).
The Friends
Friends provide the guidance of a consistent and
resourceful adult to help students achieve in school, act responsibly,
enrich their experiences and ultimately broaden their horizons. A Friend
is an individual who is caring, honest and dependable, with the ability to
form lasting relationships with children. Above all, they must love
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For more information: Call (513) 354-5648.
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