Mentor

American Dream 101 provides materials and activities that are easy to integrate into existing mentoring programs or be the foundation for an exciting new initiative.

Our program materials are currently being used by mentors to teach their teens:

Self Awareness :  Each decision teens make effect their Personality score.  As a result, they begin to understand the relationship between their actions (decisions) and how others view them.  Group play allows teens to compete not only for who has the most money but also different character traits depending on thier personal values.

Money Management:  How many teens know what is involved in paying for College or how to use credit cards or invest in the stock market?  In American Dream 101 they get to experience taking out student loans, paying bills, using credit cards and even asking their boss for a raise!  Yet if they mess up here, they don’t have bad credit for the next 10 years.

Career Exploration:  One persons dream job is another person’s nightmare. With 64 different jobs (both part and full-time) teens can experience the real life challenges of the world of work without having to leave the classroom.  Practical skills such as resume writing, filling out job applications and career education requirements and salary ranges are also included.

Leadership:  Whether you believe leaders are born or created doesn't’t matter if you are never given an opportunity to lead!  Therefore, our program materials offers teens many ways to exercise their leadership potential via the game, discussions and outside community projects.  

College Awareness: Your teens can apply to, attend, pay for and even drop out of College with American Dream 101.  More importantly, they can experience the real world value of a college education once they enter the job market.

 

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LIFE IS A JOURNEY, NOT A DESTINATION.
SO ENJOY THE RIDE!


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