PATHWAYS! November 2021

Dare to Dream!
New Pathways’ Annual Breakfast

What’s your dream? As always, our annual breakfast is a time to celebrate our youth and imagine what’s possible. This year, we’re inviting you to join us as we “Dare to Dream: Imagine What WE Can Do Now”.

The breakfast will take place on Tuesday ,March 1 at 7:30 AM at the fabulous Phoenix Art Museum. Please join us to welcome our new CEO, Dr. Karen Johnson, and recognize our youth, mentors, and supporters for their incredible work in transforming lives and communities.

Our young people have been daring to dream all year. It’s what fuels their hard work with supportive mentors, carefully thought-out action plans, and changes to negative behavior. They’re learning to exchange the artificial barrier of low expectations for the expanse of dreams without limit.

At the “Dare to Dream” breakfast, we’ll also be celebrating a year of success, including the enrollment of students from more communities in the Valley. Additionally, our youth are graduating at a rate that’s higher than the statewide average, and many of them are pursuing additional education.

Because we dare to dream big, at this breakfast we’ll welcome, recognize, support, and celebrate the many people who’ve made this possible. We can’t do it without you there, so please rsvp at npfy.org/breakfast. For more information, please email Mary Kate at mnacke@npfy.org.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Mentoring a Young Person
A gift for any season

This holiday season, consider gifting your time as a mentor to a young person who is working hard to transform their life by creating a future of hope and possibility. Mentors with New Pathways for Youth bring stability and support to young people who are four times more likely than their peers to face adversity. Our mentors help change their lives forever.

Through mass entertainment and social media, the world presents our youth with many role models. Unfortunately, not all of them are constructive and empowering. New Pathways’ mentors work with a data-driven curriculum and staff support to open the eyes of a young person to their true, limitless potential. Our mentors provide encouragement and focus, instill confidence, and model the stability and behaviors that create space for positive transformation.

On January 8th, we’ll be holding a retreat for 8th graders from the Phoenix and Isaac Elementary School Districts who are starting high school in the Fall of 2022. Please volunteer today to awaken a hopeful young person to their own boundless potential for big dreams and achievements.

By scheduling a Mentor Introduction Session this holiday season, you will be giving a profound gift to yourself and your community.

Gifts of Encouragement
Holiday care kits for New Pathways’ youth

Every year, we are proud and excited to organize holiday care kits for the young people of New Pathways for Youth. This year, give the gift of support and encouragement to a youth striving to overcome adversity and realize their full human potential.

There are two ways you can help!

1. Purchase care kit items on our Amazon list by going to https://a.co/37bOcNQ
2. Put together your own kit(s).
1 Care kit = toiletries + gift card + sweatshirt (Adult Size S-XL)
Place items in a gift box/caddy, label by gender & drop off by 11/30

Recommended Toiletries
Body wash
Deodorant
Shampoo
Loofah
Conditioner
Body Spray

Recommended Gift Cards
Target
Kohls
Walmart
Marshalls
Ross

CARE KIT DROP OFF is at:

New Pathways for Youth
901 E. Jefferson Street
Phoenix, AZ 85034

The cutoff date for delivering your care kit is Tuesday, November 30th. For more information or if you have any questions, please email Roxanne Majeski-Hiller at rmajeski-hiller@npfy.org

Become a New Pathways Facilitator

We are launching our first ever New Pathways for Youth Facilitator Training Program and are currently accepting applications to enroll 10 to 12 new volunteer facilitators to co-lead retreats and workshops. This will be pivotal as we look to grow our program over the next few years.

Applications are now being accepted through Monday, November 29, 2021. The NPFY Facilitator Training Program is an in-person training program. If you feel called to be a facilitator, please consider applying. The program begins in January 2022. Click below learn more about the program and to complete the application.

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