About Us
Mission Statement
DETOURS is a community faith based non-profit organization that works extensively with various agencies
that have the compassion, ambition, and intent of bringing social change. We ascribe to all moral and ethical
remedies that will make our communities vivacious, cleaner, safer and livable. We shall collectively make
every effort to forewarn, deter, and rescue today’s youth from the dangers and consequences of gangs, drugs
and crime involvement and to promote the important of an education. Our allegiance is to serve with integrity,
diligence and purpose.
that have the compassion, ambition, and intent of bringing social change. We ascribe to all moral and ethical
remedies that will make our communities vivacious, cleaner, safer and livable. We shall collectively make
every effort to forewarn, deter, and rescue today’s youth from the dangers and consequences of gangs, drugs
and crime involvement and to promote the important of an education. Our allegiance is to serve with integrity,
diligence and purpose.
Detours Mentoring Group has four mentoring programs. They are as follows:
- Trailblazers: Trailblazers is the central program of Detours Mentoring Group. At-risk middle school students
and their mentors participate in a structured program of support. At-risk middle school students and their
mentors participate in an energizing retreat, followed by a seven month structured program that includes
monthly team building and group activities. The program ends with a graduation but the mentor and youth
remain together for the following five months.
- Turnaround: Turnaround focuses on students who are chronically suspended from middle and high schools.
The goal of the program is to rekindle the youth's commitment to learning and being successful in the
classroom. By empowering young people to finish school, mentors are improving the student's success in the
working world as adults.
- Higher Ground: Higher Ground engages youth involved in the juvenile court system. The mentoring
relationship is utilized to establish a program of change in the young person's life. The mentor encourages goal-
setting, self-discipline, and skill development that improves the young person's sense of hopefulness. Mentors
and youth work one-on-one for a year and are also offered opportunities to participate in monthly group
activities and outings.
- Lunch Friends: Lunch Friends works with children from local elementary schools. Adult mentors come to
school each week to have lunch with their "friend." The program lasts for the duration of the school year.
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