Village Mentoring
With your Commitment and Dedication as a volunteer Mentor, you can make an impact in a youth’s life and our community as a whole.
The Village aims to be Nash County's Public Schools Premier leader in educating and mentoring male youth for tomorrow's future.
All young men deserve a clear path to a healthy adulthood, as well as formal and natural support to help them get through the obstacles and challenges faced as they follow this path!
But on the road to healthy adulthood, many young men are subjected to major shortcomings in their development and socialization. There is a young man who needs to connect with concerned adults and mentors who can help them chart a powerful course into the future and navigate through the challenges and obstacles in their way.
Who was Your Equalizer?
How often do we take a moment to reflect on the people who have shaped our lives?
Think for a moment about your life as you were growing up. What men guided you in life? Was it your coach, pastor, or a caring teacher?
What would you be like today if you had not had good role models in your life?
There are approximately 70 mentees at Rocky Mount High School, Nash Central High School, Northern Nash High School, Tar River Academy
To be eligible as a mentee, students must...
prone to economic, medical, employment, education, and legal inequalities
be a first time freshman
shown leadership in academic capacity
Shown interest in career, military, trade or collegiate opportunities.
The village will not serve as a dumping ground for the most challenged students.
The Commitment
Mentors will meet 45 minutes-one hour once per week at school.
Mentors/mentee meetings will be supervised at all times by the Dean of Students and the Communities in Schools Student Support Specialist.
A mentor will work with 1-3 students
Attend trainings and meetings
Document activities and hours engaged with mentees
The village is a school-based program. Mentoring sessions will be held on school campus during the school day or after school but on the school campus.
If anytime a mentor meets with a mentee on the weekend or during non-school hours, that meeting will be per parent/guardian approval. No function or liability will be connected to NCPS for non-village programming.
All potential mentors must register through the Nash County Public School Volunteer Portal” System
Select CIS and continue
Read through all disclosure agreements
Fill out Volunteer form completely and indicate where you would like to volunteer
Email Mr. Willie Howard when you have completed this process (whoward@ncpschools.net)
Complete the Mentor Application
Contact:
Director of Equity and Alternative Programs
Willie Howard, III
930 Eastern Avenue
Nashville, NC 27856
Phone: (252) 459-5220
The Bridge Builder
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head;
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followed after me to-day
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!”