Youth Mentoring Program
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YEP partners with students from the Denver University School of Law and the Colorado School of Law to work with high school ACLU clubs. Becoming a mentor offers a law student the chance to connect with bright, younger students who are interested in civil liberties.

We are currently developing our mentoring progam, and are on the look-out for interested mentors as well as interested participating schools. For more information, please email us.

Every school year we pair a law school student mentor with a high school club. The mentor acts as the point person for the students as they plan their ACLU club events. A mentor may be called upon to help with a debate on a civil liberties issue, attend a club meeting, talk with the students, offer ideas for speakers or be a speaker. The mentor is a source of support for the students and their sponsors. Much of the mentoring is done via computer or phone. The high school students helped create this program, and that has proven invaluable to them.

As volunteers we represent the ACLU, though not in an official capacity. The Colorado ACLU affiliate, along with the ACLU education committee and YEP offer guidelines for working with the high school students and their clubs. Each mentor has the support of the YEP committee and its resources.

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