Wish Mentoring Stretching Its Legs!

Wish Mentoring’s mission is to engage youth in our community by empowering, encouraging, and educating at-promise middle school youth on topics such as health and wellness, entrepreneurship, civic engagement and informed decision-making during their path to young adulthood.Wish Mentoring also  foster healthy relationships with themselves, their families, and their community.  

1. Keyona will become trained and certified in yoga instruction.
2. The Wish group will continue to meet for regularly scheduled workshops on self-image, health, relationships, civic engagement, and empowerment.
3. The Wish group will pick a community project to work on cotinuously and create a story, budget, and project timeline.
4. Implement a community project according to their timeline.
5. The Wish group will also be trained as peer yoga teachers.
6. The Wish group will conduct free yoga classes for youth through the spring and summer months in local parks. 
7. Make Niagara Falls a healthier place for youth and adults!

Led by Create a Healthier Niagara Falls co-chair and lifelong resident Keyona Dunn, this mentoring program came out of a desire to improve the Niagara Falls community, beginning with the youth. With many alarming local statistics on high teen pregnancy and high school dropout rates, Keyona felt the need to tackle the problem through mentoring young girls. Though she is starting small with a group of 10 girls, the goal is to build very strong foundational relationships with a starting cohort that will then become teachers and peer mentors to more youth in the future.