4-H Youth and Families with Promise Mentoring Program

Our Mission

Youth and Families with Promise program is to increase the developmental assets of youth, ages 10-14, and their families. This mission is accomplished by utilizing culturally appropriate, early-intervention strategies such as one-to-one mentoring, involvement in 4-H clubs, and family activities. 4-H Mentoring: Youth and Families with Promise is designed to increase youth’s interpersonal competence, improve youth’s academic performance, and strengthen family relationships.

The 4-H Mentoring Programs: Youth and Families with Promise program is a school, family, and community partnership designed to enhance the strengths of at-risk youth. Youth with below-average school performance, poor social skills, and/or weak family bonds are targeted.

Participants are engaged by caring adults in three structurally different settings: youth are matched with a young adult mentor, enrolled in a 4-H club, and participate in monthly Family Night Out activities with their parents. Programmatic predictors of post-program strengths vary by gender and age of participants. Findings are interpreted from an ecological systems perspective, and the involvement of various adults, particularly parents, in youth development programs is encouraged.