Photo by Hitomi Imamura TMCC faculty and staff members started coaching 15 Traner Middle School students January, 2000. Five students will be mentored for five years and the remaining 10 will be mentored for two years. According to Washoe County School District high school drop rate is 8.5 percent, and violent juvenile crime rate has increased by 8.3 percent from last couple years. Yet mentored youth in Nevada skipped half as many days, felt more competent about doing schoolwork, showed modest gains in their grade point average, and were more likely to graduate school and go to college.
Mentors are committed to guiding and making a difference in students lives for six years.
For the first two years, they meet students once a week and the other four years they are required to meet students twice a week. Sometimes just a phone call, sometimes we go to a game or out to dinner. On the Web Truckee Meadows Community College She said that the idea of giving someone hope that they could go to college and achieve their dreams gives her a great deal of satisfaction. Mentors are able to help students gain self-confidence little by little and the student appreciate the help. They tell me I could be what I want to be.