Program Information Description updated: 11/3/2010
Contact updated: 2016
Program approved for: BASW [X ] MSW 1st Year [X] MSW 2nd Year [X ]
Parent Agency Name:
San Francisco Unified School District
Agency Name:
Student Support Services Mentoring For Success Program
Website:
Agency/Program Address:
1515 Quintara St San Fracisco, CA 94116
Name of Internship Contact Person:
Erin Farrell, MSW, PPSC
Contact‘s E-mail: farrelle@sfusd.edu
Contact’s Phone Number: 415-242-2615
Vida Sanford, MSW PPSC
Contact‘s E-mail: sanfordv@sfusd.edu
Contact’s Phone Number: 415-242-2615
Fax: 415-242-2618
County Agency is in: SF.
Program Description:Mentoring For Success Program is a school-based mentoring program coordinated by Student Support Services Department. Active at over 35 SFUSD schools (elementary, middle and high), the program is designed to build student assets to address academic achievement, attendance, positive behavior, and problem solving. Volunteer mentors work under one of two programs to meet one-to-one, or with Project Arrive, in small groups with students on campus weekly. Training, match support, and monthly activities nurture match relationships. The program focuses first on developing a consistent and trusting relationship. Matches then engage in a variety of enrichment and goal directed activities
The program is funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to support students living in foster care and to reduce violence among San Francisco youth. In January 2011 Mentoring For Success is launching a new group program to identify and engage chronically and habitually truant students into mentoring relationships.
Clientele Served:The program is funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to support students living in foster care, living with disabilities, to reduce violence among San Francisco youth, and to reduce the rate of truancy for high school youth. Students come from a diversity of ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds.
Foster youth, Youth in transition, Newcomers, Poor families
Issues Program Addresses:Truancy; Problem solving skills; Academic success; Future orientation; Poverty; Social wellness and Mental health
Intern Assignments:Intern assignments range based on the interests and skills of interns. Projects may involve cofacilitating high school groups, facilitating match support (1:1 or groups) with active mentors needing support and guidance, managing outreach for programs, facilitating service learning projects, or working on program and curriculum development; fund development and program administration
Intern Training & Educational Opportunities:Student Support Services offers a host of trainings related to working with students and families in school settings. Topics range from developing and facilitating effective interdisciplinary professional groups to self care to facilitating support and social skills groups with children of all ages.
Mentoring For Success provides ongoing training to mentors and Program Coordinators to work on developing improved engagaement strategies. Trainings include: Mentor 101, Strategies to Sustain Matches, Understanding the Allure of Gangs and identifying risk factors, Engaging Students with Art, Media & Games, and Working with Foster Youth.
Intern Benefits: (Include stipend, conferences, car, food, etc.)Training, conference registration
Other Special Placement Procedures or Requirements (Including Dates of Internship, Special Application Forms and Deadlines):School calendar includes school breaks during winter and spring and all natinal holidays
a. Public transportation available and possible:
. What are the prerequisites/conditions for students to receive stipends at your agency?
d. If such stipends are not now available, does your agency have plans for
offering them? Yes No if yes, when do you anticipate that to happen?
5. Please indicate any specials skills that you desire in a student, such as fluency in a
foreign language, sign language, computer literacy, etc.
Computer literacy to use database applications and to layout newsletters and presentations
6. How many students do you feel your agency can adequately supervise? )
2 students
8. What attitudes/aptitudes/characteristics do you consider desirable for students placed in your agency?
An understanding of group facilitation and group engagement strategies, service learning, and youth development; Good networking, outreach, communication skills