ABOUT FENCE AT THE TOP
Fence at the Top is a non-profit, comprehensive mentoring program, aimed at bringing together students, educators, families, businesses, retired sports professionals, and the community to assist youths in developing decision-making skills and methods to attain their goals. With a proactive approach of intercepting at-risk, troubled, and neglected youth at the top of the hill before they fall, Fence at the Top aims to provide guidance through an on-campus program during school hours.
Composed of several components—on and off-campus mentoring sessions, sports and health programs, field trips, motivational speakers, tutoring, employment search, community service—the program focuses on education and life skills to help each student raise their Grade Point Average (GPA), and assist them in rising above their particular social or economic circumstances. This helps students to become productive citizens, enables them to mentor the next generation, graduate from high school, and aspire to attend college.
Our targeted youths are faced with instability in their lives, little or no supervision in the home, sexual promiscuity, large class sizes that limit individual attention, the lure of alcohol, drugs, and the temptation to drop out of school. By involving students in activities that require basic life skills, Fence at the Top gives these students a taste of success, instilling them with a sense of how to accomplish their goals and what it takes to succeed. Our programs teach teamwork, responsibility, goal setting, sportsmanship, self-control, decision-making, leadership skills, perseverance, money budgeting, job searching and interviewing techniques. Through our physical and community service activities, the students develop good health while broadening their horizons and acquiring a sense of harmony with one another and society. They begin to understand how they "fit in," and become inspired with ambition. Students considered troubled, neglected, or "at-risk," between the ages of 9-18 years, and with GPAs of 2.5 or less are eligible for this program.
Statistics tell us that only 70 percent of high school students completing 9th-12th grades graduate and that less than 57 percent of the at-risk students complete high school. We know that mentoring works because studies show that students in similar programs earn higher grades, are 46 percent less likely to use drugs, are 52 percent less likely to skip school, and are 86 percent more likely to go on to college.
Fence at the Top works in cooperation with schools and the community. By working and interacting with each other, we are all working together for the sake of our youth. Fence at the Top champions a proactive approach by building our fence at the top of the hill instead of building a hospital at the bottom, when it can be too late. Our job is to prevent a slide down the hill to personal, social, and economic failure. Benefiting our youth by enabling their success through achievement is not only good for each one of them, but also for the community and society at large.
Thank you for your support and God bless.
Honor Jackson
Executive Director FATT
Composed of several components—on and off-campus mentoring sessions, sports and health programs, field trips, motivational speakers, tutoring, employment search, community service—the program focuses on education and life skills to help each student raise their Grade Point Average (GPA), and assist them in rising above their particular social or economic circumstances. This helps students to become productive citizens, enables them to mentor the next generation, graduate from high school, and aspire to attend college.
Our targeted youths are faced with instability in their lives, little or no supervision in the home, sexual promiscuity, large class sizes that limit individual attention, the lure of alcohol, drugs, and the temptation to drop out of school. By involving students in activities that require basic life skills, Fence at the Top gives these students a taste of success, instilling them with a sense of how to accomplish their goals and what it takes to succeed. Our programs teach teamwork, responsibility, goal setting, sportsmanship, self-control, decision-making, leadership skills, perseverance, money budgeting, job searching and interviewing techniques. Through our physical and community service activities, the students develop good health while broadening their horizons and acquiring a sense of harmony with one another and society. They begin to understand how they "fit in," and become inspired with ambition. Students considered troubled, neglected, or "at-risk," between the ages of 9-18 years, and with GPAs of 2.5 or less are eligible for this program.
Statistics tell us that only 70 percent of high school students completing 9th-12th grades graduate and that less than 57 percent of the at-risk students complete high school. We know that mentoring works because studies show that students in similar programs earn higher grades, are 46 percent less likely to use drugs, are 52 percent less likely to skip school, and are 86 percent more likely to go on to college.
Fence at the Top works in cooperation with schools and the community. By working and interacting with each other, we are all working together for the sake of our youth. Fence at the Top champions a proactive approach by building our fence at the top of the hill instead of building a hospital at the bottom, when it can be too late. Our job is to prevent a slide down the hill to personal, social, and economic failure. Benefiting our youth by enabling their success through achievement is not only good for each one of them, but also for the community and society at large.
Thank you for your support and God bless.
Honor Jackson
Executive Director FATT
© 2007 Fence At The Top
Fence at the Top is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
All donations are deductible for federal and state tax purposes.
6091 Dinah Court · Rohnert Park · California 94928
707.584.2856