This week's program will feature Kristi Ehle, Partners Mentoring Youth program coordinator. Partners Mentoring Youth creates and supports one-to-one mentoring relationships between positive adult role models and youth facing challenges in their personal, social, and academic lives. Partners Mentoring Youth has served the Estes Park community since 1996. By matching youth with adult mentors, the youth have additional support, a positive role model, and a friend. Data shows that upon completion of one year in the Partners program, youth show increased self-esteem, lower rates of delinquency, decreased intent to use drugs, and increased attachment to adults who are not parents or relatives.

Partners is currently recruiting new Mentors and Advisory Council members. For more information, please contact Kristi Ehle, Program Coordinator, at (970) 577-9348 or Kristie@partnersmentoringyouth.org. Website: www.partnersmentoringyouth.org.

Kristi is a Colorado native. She taught social studies at Estes Park High School before becoming the Program Coordinator for Partners Mentoring Youth. She lives in Lyons with her husband and dog and is currently pursuing her master’s degree in school counseling.