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Friends of the Children

(513) 354-5648

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.

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 children.

For more information: Call (513) 354-5648.

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