Register with the AFK Mentorship Program
We currently serve children who have a wide range of disabilities, including ASD; ADHD; developmental, learning, and physical disabilities; anxiety; depression; and more. Several children we serve are referred by teachers, counselors, doctors, and other service providers.
Our goal is to provide your child with a meaningful, helpful, and fun experience with an AFK Youth Mentor.
There are many costs associated with operating the AFK Youth Mentoring Program. Athletes For Kids spends approximately $1,200 to maintain and support each mentorship per year. We ask all mentee families for a nominal mentorship fee of $240/year, payable monthly, quarterly, or annually beginning once the child has been matched. Your contribution directly supports your child’s participation in the program. Full and partial scholarships are available for those who apply.
Screening and Training
AFK carefully screens and accepts only highly qualified applicants. Following an interview with the Executive Director and Program Manager, an applicant must provide 3 letters of recommendation from a coach, teacher, and other adult. If chosen to become an AFK mentor, they are invited to a 4-hour intensive new mentor training. Once training is complete a mentor is available to be matched with child whose parent(s) have attended a new Mentee Parent Orientation. Mentors continue to receive support and ongoing training at their monthly chapter meetings.
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Currently we serve children in the 1st through 12th grades who live within a 10-mile radius of an available AFK mentor. Eligible mentors play a sport at one of the following high schools:
Skyline, Eastlake, and Eastside Catholic High Schools, Sammamish, WA
Issaquah High School, Issaquah, WA
Liberty High School, Renton, WA
Redmond High Schools, Redmond, WA
Newport High School, Bellevue, WA
Mercer Island High School, Mercer Island, WA
Mount Si High School, Snoqualmie, WA
Lake Washington High School, Kirkland, WA
Our athlete mentors have an amazing opportunity to model acceptance and inclusion for their communities both at home and at school. They have a passion to not only succeed in school and sports, but in building a trusting partnership with the child they mentor. They are responsible, committed, and desire to share their gifts and passion with the children they mentor.