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MIKE Program: Mentor with MIKE! Health Education at the heart of youth development
Posted by hannah.cherry
Mentor for MIKE Program!
As a mentor, you will act as a guide and positive role model for a group of 4-5 youth. You will join a health teacher and MIKE staff to work with your youth age 14-15 in a health classroom along with a team of other mentors and their youth. Mentors will take turns providing healthy snacks to the class (paid for by MIKE Program) and facilitate small group discussions, assist with hands-on activities, participate in a field trip, and facilitate a final Health Leadership Project as each youth team creates a project to promote health within their own community.
Mentors meet once per week in a high school classroom for at least one academic semester or year-long projects. We have spots available now for the following projects: De La Salle North Catholic High School in North Portland just off the Yellow Max Line:
- Thursdays from 11:00-12:00 PM
- Thursdays from 12:30-1:30 PM
- Thursdays from 1:30-2:30 PM
Contact Information
Cheryl Neal, Executive Director
cheryl@mikeprogram.org
mikeprogram.org
About the Organization
MIKE is a community-based public health intervention that empowers youth to be health leaders through education, mentorship, and community outreach. Recognizing that education and health are tightly linked – with educational attainment serving as a key driver of improved health outcomes – MP helps bridge the educational achievement gap, particularly for students experiencing poverty and who are at risk of academic failure. We also cultivate student leadership skills as a lever for broader community health improvements.
We are committed to creating a successful school experience as an upstream approach to breaking the intergenerational cycle of poor health.
MIKE leverages the youths’ own lived experiences. Mentors work in classrooms of partnering schools serving low-resource communities where an experienced teacher works in tandem with supportive near-age mentors and MIKE staff to amplify MIKE’s impact through hands-on activities, reflective discussion, team-building projects and field trips.