Mentor a Sheridan Elementary School Student!

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About The Program: Join the San Francisco Unified School District Health Program's Office in accomplishing our goal of ensuring all SFUSD students are safe, healthy and ready to learn. Our Mentorship for Success (MFS) program places caring adults in the lives of students to boost attendance, academic performance, and motivation toward school. As a mentor you will be paired with a student and serve as a positive role model, encouraging them to become their best selves. Mentors offer students a pathway to expand their life perspectives, overcome obstacles and build on their strengths to make positive choices and develop essential skills.

Who We Serve: MFS supports SFUSD's commitment to equity, which includes ensuring equally high outcomes for all participants through the creation of multicultural, multilingual, multiethnic, multi-ability and multiracial practices and conditions. MFS actively selects students to join the program by using data and key structures by school teams (school site meetings, data lists, etc). Over 75% of the students in MFS align with the school district’s priority area of supporting focal students, including but not limited to African American students, Latino students, foster youth, students with disabilities, and students with chronic absences, suspensions and/or low GPA. In addition, approximately 75% of mentees live in neighborhoods with high rates of poverty.

Why Mentor: This program is a great opportunity for anyone with past experience with children or interested in working with children in the future as well as anyone hoping to build a meaningful relationship with a young person and help make an impact during difficult COVID times. Our students who participate in the mentorship program feel more confident about doing schoolwork, skip fewer days of school, have higher grades, and are less likely to start using drugs. Apply if you want to make a difference in a student's life!

Please note that this program will occur virtually as long as schools as engaging in distance learning, but we plan to return to in-person programming when students move back on site.