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Mentoring, Newsletter, Uncategorized
August 5, 2019

  August 5: Back to School Bingo and Academics First Kickoff at City Life Church   August 12: Mentor and Advocate Training at Youth Horizons Office   August 20: Fundraiser at BJ's Restaurant   For more information about any events, please contact Hayley at 262-8293 or hayley@youthhorizons.net ...

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Mentoring, Newsletter
August 5, 2019

    This year's mentoring theme is "Strengthening the Mind," which we are incorporating into many of our events as well as looking for ways to enhance our mentoring program with that idea in mind. The summer has been full of activities of our matches and waiting list youth such as tickets to Music Theatre of Wichita's...

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Newsletter
July 9, 2019

Greetings, First, I want to say how much I appreciate the overwhelming amount of support and encouragement many of you have  given me during this transition period. Whereas the past 2 months of transition have been very busy, it has certainly been an enjoyable and smooth process. The staff and the Board have extended a very...

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Uncategorized
July 9, 2019

Our Annual Awards Party was held on May 31st where we celebrated our 2019 high school graduates, as well as our mentors and their proteges who set and met goals for the year. We had a cookie contest and want to thank everyone who participated. Congratulations!!! Jennifer and Marlesa - Biggest Cookie Andrea and Kaylee - Best Tasting Sara and...

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Fatherlessness, Mentoring, Newsletter
May 7, 2019

While most of our mentoring matches take place in the community, this school year we had 12 matches that met weekly in 6 different schools in the greater Wichita area. That special time spent over lunch/recess really adds up over a school year, which equals a great friendship! If you are interested in doing school-based...

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Events, Newsletter, Success Stories
May 7, 2019

Our 25th Annual Easter Sun Run started with a beautiful morning and exceptional running weather. We had 1,417 registrants and over 100 volunteers make the day a success!  Thank you to all of our generous sponsors for your support in helping meet the needs of at-risk youth, in both our residential and mentoring programs. This is...

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Events, Fatherlessness, Mentoring, Newsletter
April 3, 2019

Our very first LEGO® Extravaganza event was held on Feb. 16th. Tim Rorabaugh (mentor coach) is an avid LEGO® enthusiast that loves to build things with LEGO’s in his spare time and who organized this event. Tim worked very hard to create a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) related Lego project and we were excited to...