Jump-Start Mentoring & Coaching
Our mentoring and coaching initiative aims to engage and educate tweens and teens through interactive trainings and workshops.
Our workshops and trainings are delivered virtually via zoom or in-person; and are facilitated by trained professionals or youth coaches. We not only strive to coach and mentor the youth, but we also provide learning opportunities for parents, teachers, and other adults who are involved in the life of the youth. Additionally, we create opportunities for tweens and teens to take educational field trips.
We address a variety of topics to equip our young people with skills to make informed decisions, solve problems, think critically and creatively, communicate effectively, build healthy relationships, empathize with others, and cope with managing their lives in a healthy and productive manner.
The Benefits of Youth Mentoring
Research shows the benefits for youth mentoring are:
- Models positive social skills and facilitates interpersonal connections beyond family.
- Helps young people interpret and manage life challenges, including relationships with peers, parents, and teachers.
- Facilitates meaningful conversations that boost cognitive skills and provides perspective.
- Enhances self-esteem and self-confidence
- Promotes identity development and strengthens self-regulation.
- Lowers high school dropout rates
Meet The Founder
LaTressa Moses is a native of Ocilla, Georgia. She’s the author of It Starts as a Child: A Personal Development Guidebook for Teens, and youth life mentor. She has been helping children and teens throughout her career in a variety of settings, including mental and behavioral health, schools, and her non-profit. She is the Founder & President of S.T.E.M. 101, Inc, a non-profit youth mentoring and coaching program that predominantly works with teenagers by creating learning opportunities through workshops and trainings to teach them personal and professional life skills that will promote growth mindsets, practices to assist with critical decision-making, and methods for understanding self-assurance. LaTressa currently resides in Georgia and continues to lend her life to her personal vision for the youth in her community and surrounding communities.
Meet The Board Of Advisors
LaToya Woodard
Barbara Merritt-Wells
Barbara Merritt-Wells
Vice-President
Barbara Merritt-Wells
Barbara Merritt-Wells
Barbara Merritt-Wells
Chief Financial Manager
Bernard Baker
Barbara Merritt-Wells
Stephanie Brockington
CEO, Nonproft
Stephanie Brockington
Stephanie Brockington
Stephanie Brockington
Human Resource
Laquecia Duffie
Stephanie Brockington
Laquecia Duffie
Human Resource