Two things I continue to find of highest importance as I continue to move forward with the foundation of our CHUMS (caring, helping, understand, mentoring students) mentoring program is building a strong foundation built on trust between all involved and securing appropriate funding or a way to provide compensation to the personnel hired for these positions.
The other CHUMS programs that are currently functioning in the surrounding area have an onsite administrator at the school, trained mentors from the community's college and appropriate funding to cover the cost of the program. Our philosophy with our program is to provide a positive relationship and a high level of engagement in needed academic subjects shared by the child's classroom teacher.
In the near future, I will be visiting with our neighborhood school principal to listen to his expectations of his student's needs and design our program to fit what he recommends.
Any ideas, positive or negative, please share.
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