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AFTER SCHOOL

MENTORING

ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY

HEALTHY SENIORS

STRESS REDUCTION AND MINDFULNESS CURRICULUM

 
 

For Baltimore City Public Schools, the Holistic Life Foundation is listed on
K-12 Buy

 
 

HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION

Office: (410)669-0645
Fax: (410)532-2278

COMPANY EMAIL: info@hlfinc.org

 
 
 

The Holistic Life Foundation Mentoring Program has been in existence for six (6) years and serves students who have transitioned out of the After School Asanas program. The focus of the mentoring program is on college and job readiness, community service, yoga, and life skills.

Mentoring PicMentees spend time volunteering at the Holistic Life Foundation's After School Asanas after school program. While there, mentees help tutor younger students and help them with their homework. The mentees also teach yoga classes and serve as chaperones on field trips. They also plan and facilitate community service activities. College readiness plays a major role in the program. Mentees are aided in filling out college application, applying for financial aide, and visiting colleges they are interested in. Mentees not interested in college are placed in the job readiness program where they are aided in putting together a resume, filling out job applications, interview skills, job placement, and finding internships in fields they are interested in. Mentees interested in a specific field of work are placed with a one-on-one mentor with experience in that field. The yoga shifts from large classes in the after school setting, to personal yoga practice and yoga training in the mentoring program. Mentees are taught more advanced yoga and an emphasis is placed on personal practice and incorporating that practice into every aspect of their lives, to lead a healthier, more balanced, stress free, and peaceful life. Mentees are also trained to be assistant facilitators in Holistic Life Foundation yoga classes. Mentees are also required to participate in discussion groups based on relative passages from books, current events, and other selected topics.

Mentoring PicOf the twenty (20) original students in our mentoring program seventeen (17) of them graduated from high school on-time or early. Eighteen (18) of the twenty (20) original students in the program are either enrolled in college or working fulltime, with students attending Emory University, The Maryland Institute College of Art, Limestone College, Frostburg State University, Baltimore City Community College, and others. Three (3) students served on the Baltimore City Commission on Sustainability Youth Advisory Group, planning sustainability programs and events, and testifying in front of the Baltimore City Council. Also none of the students in the mentoring program are incarcerated.