Location: Mays Landing, New Jersey

Website: http://www.oakcrestteencenter.org/

Member Since: April 2009

The mission of the Oakcrest Teen Center is to help young people navigate the adolescent years, finish their education, obtain skills leading to employment or continuing education, and graduate healthy and drug free. The teen center is strategically situated in a building on the campus of Oakcrest High School. A variety of programs are provided for the students in the high school. These include: mental health counseling, case management, smoking cessation for teens, gender specific positive youth development groups, pregnancy prevention, learning support services, and employment/work readiness.

iMentor Interactive will be used to expand programming at the Oakcrest Teen Center. For the 2009-2010 FY Oakcrest Teen Center will start a new mentoring program, Helping Youth Pursue Excellence (HYPE). The HYPE program will utilize iMentor Interactive as the primary means for mentor/mentee communication and will include social & service learning events for mentors & mentees to interact face to face. These include volunteer trips to the community food bank, a local soup kitchen, earth day beach clean up, and an adopt-a-road clean up. There will be at least three parent workshops for parents of students in the program throughout the school year.