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We are positioned to impact 55-70 lives through our Mentoring Program in 2024. Compassion Planet invests just over $21,000 for each young person (aka - trainee) to complete our Mentoring Program.
Our signature program offers 1,000 to 3,200 hours of services (up to 20 months) designed to help facilitate positive growth, healthy mentoring relationships, personal coaching, and pathways to a lifetime of independence. Adult Mentors (staff and volunteers) are trained on how to work in trauma-informed environments. They also complete monthly training in Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI).
In summary, our Workforce Development provides on-the-job training through paid internships in controlled environments at ten locations including seven social enterprises owned and managed by Compassion Planet.
In these environments trained mentors work together to empower youth with employment skills, workplace dependability skills, and a strong work ethic to ensure sustainable employment. A multi-range of on-the-job training skills may include customer service, computer coding, inventory controls, sales & marketing, merchandising, digital marketing, warehouse & shipping, event planning, light construction, food service, maintenance, gardening, and more.
Participating youth in the Mentoring Program also receive weekly one-to-one mental health coaching sessions with our clinical social workers. Coaching helps youth work through trauma, anxiety, addictive traits, and childhood pain while offering tools and pathways to find wholeness. We also provide Mental Health services and Educational Therapy on coping skills, conflict management skills, healthy relational skills and boundaries, emotional intelligence, and personalized topics to find wholeness.
Along with Workforce Development training and Mental Health services, trainees receive basic life skills training, soft skills training, career coaching, exposure to the trades through hands-on workshops, and the acquisition of career-related certifications (e.g. Servsafe, OSHA 10, etc.).
Upon graduating from the Mentoring Program, trainees enter our Aftercare program. This lifelong program includes services and helps ensure they stay connected to a community. Our goal is to help ensure lifelong growth and success. Compassion Planet’s Aftercare Program includes. Trimester check-ins, alumni events, housing opportunities, and access to emergency funds and coaching to support graduates if challenges arise.
Our goal is to raise $10,000 through Big Day of Giving 2024. Funds raised this year will be split four ways and will help underwrite:
1. Our Thumbs to Hands program ($3,000) which will introduce trainees to the trades and connect them to volunteer mentors who have made a living in the trades. These experiences will take place at Compassion Ranch.
2. Our Project Adam program ($3,000) helps youth with driver's training, acquiring their California Driver's License, and assisting them with purchasing their first car.
3. Our Trainee Advancement Fund ($3,000) helps graduates when facing personal challenges and provides resources for living expenses, encouragement, and personal coaching
4. Our Assessments and Certifications ($1,000) provides individual assessments to establish baselines during onboarding and provides fees to complete certifications in Servsafe, CPR, and OSHA 10 training.