Mentors for Youth Empowerment

As a follow-up to the Youth Voices United for Change conference in the fall, Mentors for Youth Empowerment (

MYE) is a program that matches De Anza College students to 10 high school sites, where they facilitate civic engagement projects and help build a roadmap to college with the youth.

The main objective is to have youth realize they can make a difference within their own lives and t

he community. Students will select a problem they want to address, strategize a civic project that can work to resolve the issue, and implement the project with a goal of presenting the work they were involved in at next year’s YVUC conference.

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We mentors at the following High Schools:

• Andrew Hill
• Evergreen Valley
• James Lick
• Leigh
• New Valley/Gateway
• Overfelt
• Palo Alto
• Willow Glenn
• Yerba Buena

Interested in mentoring youth? Join us and earn a unit!

• Join our meetings on Fridays, 2:30 - 3:30pm, East Cottage Resource Room
• We ask a commitment of about 2 - 4 hours a week of work

Questions?

Contact any one of the following MYE planning committee members:

• Vince Mendoza, Outreach Coordinator, vincemendoza86@gmail.com
• Kevin Nguyen, Assistant Coordinator, chukkalos@gmail.com
• Claudia Barajas, Assistant Coordinator, cbarajas56@yahoo.com