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Statistics show that mentored youth experience positive academic, social, and emotional returns.

    • Better attendance in school
    • 59% of mentored teens get better grades
    • Increased chance of going to college
    • 40% of teens feel that talking with an adult helps reduce teen pregnancy
    • 45% of teens credit mentors with improving their ability to avoid drugs
    • Mentoring a foster youth decrease their chances of becoming incarcerated as an adult
    • Mentoring a foster youth decrease their chance of attempting suicide
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 Mentoring
The Dream Catcher Foundations mentoring program is dedicated to matching each foster child with a mentor. Mentors are screened and live scanned. Mentors receive orientation and training before being matched with a foster youth.

The Dream Catcher Foundation is also a service provider through the National Alliance of Faith and Justice (NAFJ) for the Pen or Pencil Initiative (PEN which stands for penitentiary and PENCIL which stands for education; the choice being education over incarceration).

The mentoring program provides children of incarcerated parents a mentor. Incarcerated parents in state and federal custody and caregivers of their children, such as, relatives, foster parents or group home providers, can enroll their sons and daughters in the Dream Catchers skill building, academic, experiential and service learning mentoring program.

To learn more about this program visit www.nafj.org or Contact us for more details.

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