Social networking sites have been getting the heat for exposing teens to dangerous predators. Recently we’ve all found out that MySpace banned over 90,000 registered sex offenders from its site, to protect its users. It’s reassuring that MySpace is being responsible and doing its job. We should probably take a moment to acknowledge other positive influences social networking has had on teen culture. Many otherwise lonely, misunderstood kids have gained the exposure necessary to escape the narrow confines or small towns and unsupportive families. Some have found true friends, confidantes and even saviors.
The story that comes to mind involves a 22-year-old New Jersey man becoming friends with a California teenager. After about a month of online conversations, the teen revealed during a webcam session that he is cutting himself and is considering suicide. It was an obvious cry for help, and the older man who has had some youth mentoring experience, did the right thing. Luckily, he knew the kid’s real full name and knew he was from Sacramento. He was able to find the boy’s address, phone number and other contact information through a Cell Phone Lookup. Then, he called Sacramento police and told them where to find his troubled friend. The police immediately visited the boy’s home, and found him alive, albeit covered in cuts. They arranged for proper crisis treatment and had him transferred to safety.
This kid was lucky to find a friend capable of compassion and quick thinking, who used proper technology to save his life. Luckily, they found each other on MySpace; luckily, the older friend had heard of reverse phone directories and located this confused teen through a Cell Phone Lookup.
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This is the Last time Monique Boyd ministered before she went home to be with our Lord. NLC Youth service she was mentoring Re Re when they did this dance. It truely blessed the church that day. You could really see how much of a relationship they have with the Lord.
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Getting ahold of my brothers old football coach?My brother played football in Mentor Ohio in 1998, and we are trying to somehow get ahold of his old coach, to hopefully see if we can get a copy of his highlight tape for that year. He played for Mentor Youth Football Association for OSU little league. Any ideas????
This is with a city league, not a school. any more ideas?
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I lost my job 6 months ago, but I've finally found something I can do at home to make some exta money to help make ends meet. By no means am I rich, but every penny helps. Try it yourself. http://www.goodinternetdeals.com/Work-At-Home.html
I've volunteered with several youth programs, and I've had some pretty positive experiences with all of them. I currently work with several programs. I am an active "Big" in the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization:
http://www.bbbs.org
I'm on my second match, and it's been a lot of fun. Even though at times you may not realize the impact that you are making, it's all of the little moments that make it worthwhile.
I also volunteer through my volunteer center to tutor children at the library and work at the local children's shelter. I've found the most variety through the volunteer center:
http://www.handsonnetwork.org/our-network/
http://www.pointsoflight.org/c.....center.cfm
http://national.unitedway.org
It all depends on the type of time commitment, and what you are looking for in a program. If you are looking for a one-on-one match, then I would suggest that Big Brothers is a very good program. If you are looking for general mentoring opportunities, I think your volunteer center may be able to help you find stuff that will have a shorter time frame to get started. In both cases with Big Brothers, it did take quite a bit of time before I was matched, and a longer time in order to build a relationship with my match.
Good luck!
“what are you doing”….”ughhh i’ll tell u when u get older”…LOL
asshole, sorry your other videos are good but this , this video sucks.
good stuff ahah
You won't get rich but there are lots of jobs available.
It's stressful though — there is high turnover because of the hours vs. the amount of pay.
You can be a mentor without it being your job — lots of kids need mentors.
(At first I thought you were talking about being a youth pastor)
I would start by going to a city hall meeting for the city that you're interested in and see how they operate. After the meeting, talk to the Chair of the commission and see if he or she may be interested in such a program. Then ask them how you can put discussion of this on the next meeting's agenda. You will likely have to give a short presentation of the program and answer questions by council members and other citizens that come to the meetings. It will help if you can get the support of teachers in local schools and make sure that they show up at the meeting to support you.
Hope that helps!
Get involved with area schools, churches, youth groups, sports leagues and scout groups. Write to their community service coordinators (or whoever would best fit this description) and ask to be put on a list of organizations looking for help.
In particular, find out who in your community encourages or requires community service. Ask kids to run small grade-level or school/church/team wide drive for the items you're looking for. Do it in advance so you can bank the bulk of the items for the coming year and fill in as necessary. 5 kids with 20 friends each bringing 1 school item equals 10 filled backpacks. Get a whole school involved and you may be able to cover your program for the year and attract new donations.
Also consider getting volunteers involved in more direct ways. People who are invested in a program are more likely to support it financially.
I run a small non-profit and I've been spreading the word about our program to supply gently used sports uniforms and footwear to kids in rural Mexico. I was just contacted by a family whose 4th grader is interested in running a drive at his school as part of a run for class office. Apparently it's a tradition at his school to prove one's leadership through such a project. I know he won't be able to supply a very large part of what we need, but every little bit helps and the publicity we'll get out of it will be very valuable. We'll run a thank-you in the newspaper, put his face on our website and benefit from the word-of-mouth publicity at his school.
Big Brothers/Big Sisters is a great mentoring program.
That girl at 1:44 is a bitch
You are going to need help to do it. TV stations won't run commercials that don't meet their standards. Hunt down local TV production students or even public-access TV afficionados.
I make my own infomercials for the internet… but making commericals for TV is a different game altogether.,
This video was funnier than hell lol wow wouldn’t that be awesome.
xbox360nigga, it’s not real…
you can make them an exact clone of you!
Watch the new episode of Clone Wars, on Cartoon Channel!
Haha, pretty funny. But Ozzy made it a whole lot better. Good taste in music.
i would say to talk with a salvation army family shelter director.