Community Adult Mentoring Project (CAM)

Funded by the Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services Board of Cleveland, the Community Adult Mentoring Program is a substance abuse prevention program for youth in grades K through 7.  This program provides peer and adult mentoring to Asian/Pacific Islander children in Cuyahoga County.  Activities include tutoring and homework assistance, prevention education, problem identification and referral services, and other alternative activities.  The program runs throughout the school year, with a summer camp component.  For more information, please contact Kitty Leung at 216-881-0330 (ext. 102) or kitty.leung@asiainc-ohio.org.

Group mentoring is an alternative to traditional one-to-one mentoring that is a “cultural fit” for our customers’ needs.

After School Program

Activities include:

• After school tutoring/prevention education reaches out to school-age customers enrolled in grades K-7.

• The academic tutorial program uses an “infused” or integrated curriculum that combines prevention education with academic, athletic, and real life education. This method recognizes and uses participants’ cultural heritages to inform and enhance their learning experiences. – e.g. the use of language arts to write a short play or skit that would help them understand the risks of ATOD use, using art forms to determine the level of understanding of ATOD’s harmful effects on the body, or using science to understand the effects of smoking on lungs.

• As an after school drop in center, CAM uses alternative strategies to redress the research-based assertion that the risks of use of tobacco and alcohol sharply increases when youth are not involved with supervised after school activities.

• CAM is also responsive to the needs of its customers who are Low English Proficient where there exists a direct relationship between scholastic performance and high risk behavior.

• The program is held four days a week for 2.5 hours each meeting during the nine-month school year.

Group Mentoring

• Mentoring activities are structured to engage Asian teens to focus on ATOD use prevention, specifically tobacco use, with all of its ramifications - health promotion, leadership training, team building and a closer bonding between mentor and mentees.

Outcomes:

• Increased protective assets
• Increased refusal skills
• Improved social skills
• Improved conflict resolution and anger management skills
• Decreased intergenerational conflicts

School Year CAM 2007-2008

Fall 2007-2008 Calendar (subject to change)

School Year CAM follows the Cleveland Municipal School District calendar.  Please be aware that during the wintertime, CAM will be closed on snow days.

Monday – Thursday*

3:00pm – 5:30pm

Friday*

3:00pm – 5:00pm

*Due to scheduling issues, students attending Marion C Selzer Elementary School might have the option of attending the after-school program until 6:30pm on Mondays through Thursdays and until 6:00pm on Fridays.  Updates to come.

September 4, 2007

School Year CAM 2007-2008 Begins:  October 13, 2007

January 21, 2008

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: No School

February 15, 2008

Professional Day: No School

February 18, 2008

Presidents’ Day: No School

March 21, 2008

Good Friday: No School

March 22 – 28, 2008

Spring Break: No School

April 14, 2008

Parent-Teacher Conferences: No School

May 26, 2008

Memorial Day: No School

May 29, 2008

Last Day of School Year CAM

Parenting Program

*Note: Dates are subject to change.  More information to come.

Parents will meet 5:30pm – 7:00pm on the following days:

September 12, 2007

September 19, 2007

September 26, 2007

October 3, 2007

October 10, 2007

October 17, 2007

October 24, 2007

October 31, 2007

November 7, 2007

November 14, 2007

January 16, 2008

January 23, 2008

January 30, 2008

February 6, 2008

February 13, 2008

February 20, 2008

February 27, 2008

March 5, 2008

March 12, 2008

March 19, 2008

Cam is funded through Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services (ODADAS).