These teens are making plans for post-secondary education and employment. They all have disabilities including vision, hearing, mobility, and health impairments, and specific learning disabilities. Frequent electronic communications and personal contacts bring DO-IT prot g s and mentors together to facilitate academic, career, and personal achievements. Introducing prot g s to mentors with similar disabilities is a strength of the DO-IT program. So he made me feel a lot better about my future.
Participants learn strategies for success in academics and employment.
Mentors provide direction and motivation, instill values, promote professionalism, and help prot g s develop leadership skills. As participants move from high school to college and careers they too become mentors, sharing their experiences with younger participants. There are probably as many mentoring styles as there are personality types and no one can be everything to one person. Each DO-IT participant benefits from contact with several mentors. Most mentoring in DO-IT takes place via the Internet.