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Work Ethics Program Everbody says they want to help kids, but until PACT's Work Ethics education program was launched in 1994, there was no safe structured, one-on-one adult mentored program for at-risk kids that really focused on instilling a work ethic by virtue of work experience with a role model. PACT's inovative social enterprise Work Ethics program has been essentially self-supporting for the last 15 years. Work Ethics Adult Mentors We Pay Our Volunteer Mentors. Working as a Work Ethics Mentor, adults can easily earn $20/hr., or a supplemental income of over $1,000 per month. The more frequently you volunteer your time to work with our kids, the more effective your mentoring will be. You become their friend, their coach and their role model when you work together. This kind of mentoring actually uses one of the few "work-like" experiences available to 10 - 15 year olds. It's a type of "Work that WORKS."
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Work Ethics Volunteer Work is Flexible. You choose whether you wish to work early weekday evenings, or weekend mornings or afternoons. PACT matches you with a young "work apprentice" for the two hours of each session. You are an independent contractor, paid commissions weekly. You can change your schedule however you like, as often as you like. You spend your session in well-to-do neighborhoods, walking and talking with your young partner, coaching them and teaching them how to introduce themselves and present themselves effectively to adults in a door-to-door situation. You will meet your work partner before the work session, then drive in your own vehicle, another adult mentor's vehicle, or the PACT van, to a nearby safe neighborhood, where you will knock on doors in a planned, mapped area until the end of your session. Evenings you see your partner returned safley to their home by 9 pm. Our mentors have knocked on doors over two million times without a single incident. You can keep the income you earn in the program, or contribute it back to PACT. Today we have adult mentors who have been working with our kids for over 10 years - Work Ethics has worked for them, and it can work for you.
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How to Get Started as an Adult Mentor. Here's what we look for: mature, upbeat, likes kids, a positive role model, good people skills, wants to make a difference, change-oriented, some college preferred. You must have a CA state I.D., a social security number, and a smile. Plus three strong character references and a clean record (you must be finger printed.) We've never had an incident yet: We are registered with the LAPD and permitted by eight local city governments. Call for a personal half-hour screening interview at the PACT office. Ask to see the PACT video. E-mail us your resume and tell us about yourself. You can be a paid PACT mentor within a week! Work Ethics is Work, Fun, Community Service, A Learning Experience...With Relationships That Last a Lifetime.
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Every year PACT provides dozens of recreational and educational activities for kids and mentors - beach parties, snow trips, camping, Mt. Everest (via IMAX), Six Flags and Sony Studios to name a few. After school and weekends, PACT's kids are learning about work, and the psychology of working efectively, with an adult mentor in a safe neighborhood - a neighborhood probably very different from the one they are growing up in. They meet the world, learn self-discipline, experience how THEY appear to others, build self-esteem, discover the rewards of work - and develop new enthusiasms and ways of seeing the possibilities of a self-directed future. They meet with successful people in higher-income households - while spending time far away from gangs and streets gangs claim. They Earn More Than Paychecks. With their hourly compensation, PACT's work-like sessions offer kids a means to save and spend, which instantly expands their horizons. Special incentives are offered to those most successful, and who make the most progress. Those are also aware that their work is actually supporting the program - and the organization itself. A sense of their importance to PACT is an important part of their growing self-esteem - the feeling that they matter, and that what they do matters. One boy bought his mother a bed; another bought his mother a washing machine. Numbers of them have saved thousands for college. The Work Ethics Program is the heart of PACT's mission to redirect at-risk 10-15 year oldswith adult, one-on-one mentored learning, earning and FUN. Work Ethics Helps 10-15 Year Olds Achieve
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Basic Requirements for Youth to Enroll
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