You are cordially invited to Hope for Youth Alliance Mentor training on Thursday, April 17 2008 at 6:30 pm

Place; Rock Christian Fellowship/919 N. Riverside Dr/ Espanola, NM 87532/ Please contact us here by Email.

Come learn about how you can develop a transformational mentoring relationship with a kid in your community. We have over 25 youth on a waiting list you may be the one.

Youth at risk face the following problems:

• Delinquency
• School Failure
• Drug and alcohol abuse
• Gang involvement
• Violence
• Broken families
• Teen parenting

Youth involved in mentoring programs are:

• Less likely to start using drugs and alcohol
• Less likely to hit someone
• Less likely to skip school
• More likely to improve relationships with parents and peers

This is the kind of Collaborations and Coalition Group I been waiting for.

Tonight: I have been invited to Los Alamos to be the key note speaker to a group of kingdom leaders (Mentor New Mexico) with a heart for building transformational ministries for youth .

Come experience how it can transform your youth ministry, Tuesday March 18 , at 5:30-97 pm.

We will be discussing effective ministry models with todays youth, and the ingredients for highly effected mentoring ministries, recruiting mentors, and helping kids in our youth groups who need more than just games, pizza, pop, and popcorn.

Because of Jesus,

Daniel Arellano

Hope for Youth Alliance Value Highlight:

Collaborative- No one organization can reach and meet all the needs of the children, youth, and families, of our communities. Our strategy is to create collaborative efforts with neighboring churches, youth groups, businesses, schools, community agencies, faith based organizations locally, and nationally.

Report: N.M. still ranks among worst states for kids
Santa Fe New Mexican reports: “NM still ranks among the worst states for kids. On measures of child health and welfare, NM now ranks 47 of the Nation.” The report concludes “New Mexico has some of the worst rates in the nation for child deaths, teen deaths, teen births, high-school dropout, insecurely employed parents, child poverty, single parent families, idle teens; too many teens are twiddling their thumbs. They are neither in school nor working.
(Source: SF New Mexican July 25, 2007)

HYA was birthed out of a desire to reach out to youth through mentoring relationships. Youth are in trouble because they have no significant attachments to caring adults who can empower them to hope and have higher expectations for themselves.
Children and youth are a product of who they are connected to and disconnected from Hope for Youth Alliance believes that mentoring is the best back up plan for children and youth that come from broken families, and single parent homes. Children and youth need caring adults during their early development and so often they have been left alone and isolated to figure out things on their own. When caring adults are absent from young lives, they will turn to their peers, which in most cases leads to negative and unhealthy influences and lifestyles. It is my hope that youth will connect to a healthy and positive adult mentor who makes themselves readily available to them through HYA..

Make this a better place for children and youth! Become a Mentor
Mentor Training
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Rock Christian Fellowship
Espanola, NM 87532
6PM