OUR MODEL

Silver Lining Mentoring leverages the power of positive relationships to promote young people’s sense of belonging and self-esteem. We serve young people through an Integrated Service Model, providing the support and services most appropriate for each individual over the course of the long-term relationship.

Our Integrated Service Model consists of three core services:

Community Based Mentoring

Community Based Mentoring is Silver Lining Mentoring’s flagship program that pairs young people ages seven and older with a caring, committed, volunteer mentor. Mentors meet their mentees in the communities where youth live to provide one-on-one support for a minimum of one year. Mentors receive extensive training and support from SLM’s clinically-trained staff.

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Learn & Earn

Learn & Earn gives teens and young adults the opportunity to learn and practice career readiness and financial literacy skills with the support of SLM staff and a volunteer mentor. Young people are paid for their participation in the program and SLM matches each mentee’s earnings, dollar for dollar, upon completion of the program. These intensive 12 week, cohort-based workshops are held in the communities where young people live and work, and all youth are paired one-on-one with a mentor to guide them through the curriculum.

Young Adult Services

Young Adult Services refers to the variety of programming and resources that SLM makes available to all SLM participants who are on the cusp of transitioning out of care and/or who have recently aged out of state care at 18.  SLM offers life skills resources relevant to navigating adulthood more independently by providing  individualized clinical support, increased access to critical, urgent resources such as cost of living and housing financial assistance, professional development & paid leadership opportunities, and our CLIMB curriculum & workshops.

SLM applies a trauma-informed, strengths-based and youth focused lens to supporting program participants. Youth are not passive recipients of our services, but are instead active in determining the supports they receive and the goals they set. Youth utilize SLM staff and programs to navigate a healthy transition to independent living in which they have the tools and resources they need to thrive.

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