By Daniel

Saturday, August 2, 2008 10:48 PM

Day One of Operation Back To School

Operation Back To School started today, we visited 3 neighborhoods, gave 155 backpacks filled with school supplies to children from grades k-12. We had over 25 Pre-K children who received coloring books, and crayons.

Operation Back To School Highlights, over 310 + attended, dozens of give-a-ways, 10 new mentee applications for HYA, and a special visit from the Dog -Rovercomer, The Rock Christian Fellowships children ministry mascot. ( The children loved him). We also had a special visit from the Rio Grande Sun Newspaper; Staff Writer Sarah Walsh.

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Coming soon!

Hope for Youth Alliance just made available this Video on youtube.

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Hope for Youth Alliance is partnering with these people.HYA Mentors and Mentees will be meeting the needs of low-income, the elderly and disabled of our community.Espanola Home Health Services is a opportunity for HYA to fullfill its mission in helping youth become resourceful and giving them opportunities to participate in community service projects in our area serving the needs of others.

Young men need direction that comes from a man…maybe you are the one.

This is our second postcard and will be used to recruit men to join our mentoring alliance. Please feel free to down load it and distribute it for Hope for Youth Alliance. We are always in need of men who will mentor young men. 9o% of young men who come to us asking for mentors are absent from their fathers.

Fatherless young boys need a male-model they can learn from, maybe you can be the one.

I want to let you in on the newest and first publication from Hope for Youth Alliance. This will be the cover of our Mentor Resource Manual. It has been over 300 hours and lots of research and development to put over 200 pages together. Mentors from Hope for Youth Alliance who have completed mentor training will be the first to get theirs hot of the press. Please pray that the editing of this manual doesn’t take weeks.

If you would like to support the printing costs of this resource for Hope for Youth Alliance please email gotmentors@gmail.com to let us know you intend to do so, or mail your donations to PO BOX 2458 Espanola, NM 87532. We are grateful to our supporters who have already contributed to this project.

Download for duplication: pdfhere

On measures of child health and welfare, New Mexico now ranks 47 of the Nation. A recent study reports “New Mexico has some of the worst rates in the nation for child deaths, teen deaths,teen births, high-school dropouts, insecurely employed parents, child poverty, single parent families, idle teens; too many teens are twiddling their thumbs. They are neither in school nor working.”

(Souce: Kids Count in SF New Mexican July 25, 2007)