SMILES Mentoring Program

raphics and inhibited economic development. The establishment of SMILES is a direct response to research that identified mentoring as one of the most effective strategies to keep at-risk students in school through graduation. The SMILES Mentoring Program helps to empower youth in our community to make positive life choices that enable them to maximize their potential. The mentoring program recruits adult volunteers who will commit to supporting, guiding, and being a friend to a young person for a period of at least one school year, one hour per week. As a group they serve to be part of the solution to attaining a better educated, responsible and community minded society.