Martinsville-Henry County Family YMCA

Description

Reach & Rise Mentoring Program is a highly successful and nationally recognized YMCA program. The mentoring program was started at the YMCA of San Francisco. Reach & Rise trains adult volunteers to assume para-professional therapist roles to develop safe, healthy, and meaningful relationships with youth. The program targets youth ages 6-17 years, who live and go to school in communities that experience disproportionate rates of poverty, juvenile crime, truancy, single parent households, low educational attainment of parents, and limited interaction time between parents/caregivers and youth.