One simple thing will make a big difference in the life of an at-risk child: One-on-one, positive attention from a responsible, caring adult.
Kids Hope USA develops these one-on-one relationships through the creation of church-school partnerships that pair church members with at-risk kids in supportive, mentoring relationships.
Kids Hope USA mentors spend just one hour per week, reading, talking, playing and listening to a child at school. By helping the child feel loved and valued, they help that child to learn, grow and succeed.
Kids Hope USA develops these one-on-one relationships through the creation of church-school partnerships that pair church members with at-risk kids in supportive, mentoring relationships.
Kids Hope USA mentors spend just one hour per week, reading, talking, playing and listening to a child at school. By helping the child feel loved and valued, they help that child to learn, grow and succeed.
What we doKHUSA offers churches and schools a proven, award-winning model to meet the emotional, social and academic needs of children. KHUSA programs create one-on-one mentoring relationships between adult church members, willing to give a little time and a lot of love, and at-risk elementary school-children in their community who desperately need loving, caring adults in their lives. Utilizing the existing structures of churches and elementary schools as the framework for these programs, Kids Hope USA creates successful, sustainable and life-changing church-school partnerships.
In this One Child, One Hour, One Church, One School model, each church partners with a school where mentors from the church spend one hour each week with their “one-and-only student” at the school. |
Why it MattersTo see the most devastating effects of our current economic distress, just look at the children of those families hardest hit. With higher unemployment, more homelessness, parents working multiple jobs and families struggling just to survive, their children’s basic social and emotional needs often fall into the void. And this void erodes children’s hope for the future, sometimes even rendering them physiologically incapable of learning until their needs can be met. The fact is, too many children were vulnerable even before the recession hit.
These children need someone who can be present at the critical time in their lives when values are formed, when self-esteem is developed, and when basic academic and problem-solving skills are acquired. Someone who won’t let them down. You can be the one. |
How Can You helpIt takes just one person to make a difference in the lives of at-risk children in your community; just one concerned, caring adult to start the ball rolling toward creating a Kids Hope USA church-school partnership, and it can begin with you!
To bring hope into the lives of children who long to have just one caring and faithful adult in their lives, consider taking the first step:
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Meet the Kids Hope Director
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Sheli Langejans is our Kids Hope USA Mentoring Director. She is responsible for selecting and training members of FHPC to mentor students referred to the program by teachers at Kettle Lake Elementary. Sheli seeks to connect loving mentors with at-risk students offering them support and a confidence boost. It is wonderful to see the difference our mentors make in the lives of these students! Sheli is married to Scott and they have three children: Katie, Brian, and Tommy. She enjoys family trips, movies, popcorn and almond M&Ms.
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