Aileah and her mentor at graduation, 2010

All eight of our seniors in high school graduated last spring and all are now serving PFY as “freshmen mentors.” Our freshmen mentors receive a laptop computer, $500 for books and supplies for their dorm rooms.  They mentor our high school students - coming to at least two group meeting/year and hosting a tour of their college campus.

Our freshmen mentors are at the following colleges this year: Ashley Cooper (Bennett College), Matthew Corvera (Durham Technical Community College), Raleshia Douglas (Durham Technical Community College), Id’Misha Grimsley (Johnson and Wales), Garcia Langley (North Carolina Central University), Nefertarri Little (Winston Salem State University), Scott Lowery (Campbell College), and Aileha Olds (Winston Salem State University).

We interviewed our student Scott Lowery at Campbell University about a month after he started, and he had this to say about PFY:

It helps. It gives you study ethics. It gives you a couple more parents to remind you of things. It gives you the venue to start your own things, like getting your own mentors and stuff. If you take the program right, you can use it in school – like pack it up in your little bags and use it in college.

Our freshman mentors are a bridge to the future for the students behind them and are our best salespeople for taking the leap of going to college!