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school bus over to The Link.
There are. director Baumgardner reports, some 20 to 25 young people who will begin the new Starfish year. She hopes to reach an enrollment of 30 by January. Who are these children? The director refers to them as “children of promise.-* Educators sometimes make the label “children at risk;” clearly they are young boys and girls whose lives take them near the out-of-bounds Ikies.
There is significant help for die youngsters, and their families, in the mentoring program. For each girl there is an adult woman mentor, for each boy a male adult. The mentors spend at least two hours a week with each child, and work to become a confidant, supporter, and pal
What Starfish needs is more mentors, especially men.
Orientation for prospective mentors, men and women, begins in October. The way to make contact is with Baumgardner or with Cole Johnson at Headwaters at 540-675-1819.
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