“Am I a Champion?”
“Yes, of course, you are a Champion!”
ESTEEM is Building the Next Generation Through Mentoring.
Education
Empowerment
Exploration
Engagement
The MISSION of ESTEEM is to support student learning in a manner that empowers students to take responsibility for their own learning and life. We seek to help students recognize their own potential and to help them improve the skills they need to function more effectively in an increasingly diverse and demanding world.
ESTEEM’s mission is also to help children, youth, young adults, and their families through:
Community Development
Economic Empowerment
Educational Enhancement
Developing Stronger Families
Education
ESTEEM'S objectives and purposes are to empower students with the confidence and skills needed to become successful learners and productive citizens.
An education segment of ESTEEM Mentoring Program’s Curriculum will focus on ICE-T.
Are you thirsty yet? If so, have some ICE-T!
Our education segment will focus on, but not limited to:
Imagination
Creativity
Engineering
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Tutoring (Reading and Mathematics)
Empowerment
Developing Youth Into
Responsible Adults Through:
Social-Emotional Growth, and Life-Skills.
Positive Cultural Identity Formation & Self-Awareness
Self-Management & Social Awareness
Decision-Making
Improve Relationships
Leadership Skills (7 Habits of Highly Effective Kids, The Leader in Me; Covey)
Exploration
ESTEEM mentees will be explore a variety of pertinent experiences. There will be guest speakers from policemen, firefighters, computer engineers, entrepreneurs, designers, sports figures such as high school , and college student athletes along with professional athletes. ESTEEM mentees with explore the arts, as we visit museums, art galleries, John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation, Greenwood Cultural Center, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Zoo. ESTEEM mentees will experience and learn about the engineering process, with hands-on activities. ESTEEM mentees will explore finances to gain financial literacy, utilizing Junior Achievement’s curriculum.
ESTEEM mentees will be have to an unlimited number of positive, healthy, and exciting experiences.
Engagement
Once per month ESTEEM will engage parents and family members in order to build community and cohesiveness.
Bringing Unity into the Community as ESTEEM serves our neighbors in the Tulsa Community.
Community Service
Quarterly, ESTEEM will provide our youth with the opportunity to serve in the Tulsa community/region/Union School District and beyond.
· Visit Nursing Homes (Future)
· Clean-up areas in neighborhoods
· Volunteer to help the elderly
· Foodbank
Partner with ESTEEM Community Development Organization Inc.
Businesses, philanthropists, schools, churches, organizations, and individuals, partner with ESTEEM and support our vision, and goals of, Transforming Youth into Successful Adults, as we help Build the Next Generation Through Tutoring and Mentoring.