Barrier Breaking Champions

All of the articles which are posted on this website are written for TEEN CAFE on the website of Sharon Hughes and Friends @ www.womantalk.us
Rape, abuse, drugs, alcohol, gangs, pregnancy, rejection are just a few issues that young people today are facing in society, school and worst of all at home. Many of these issues are “attention getters” in hopes that someone will sit up and take notice and give them a sense of belonging.

In last week’s article about the 15 million kids who are home alone, I asked for young people who want to be mentored and people who would like to mentor to email me and get involved. Hopefully you heard the program with Sharon and I on the radio program this week regarding kids on my space, and if you haven’t I would encourage you to listen to it. You will hear the raw details about what is happening to our youth and how important it is to mentor them and become involved.

In fact, I am so committed to this mentoring campaign that I am filming a pilot TV program for teens the end of October discussing issues they are facing and encouraging parents as well as teens to watch and identify with some of these same issues. We will be filming Teen Café from the Arcadia Theater in Texas with teen girls from all over the area and the show will be entitled “Breaking Barriers”. The show will later be aired on a youth channel around the globe as we get the message out about what is really happening among our youth.

Role models are needed and as a team we can join to make a difference by sharing a small portion of our time each week. This week we have a survey here on our page asking teens to share with us if they have an active adult role model in their life and if not, would they like to have one and what state or country they are writing from. We want to hear from you.

There are teen girls out there who need to know that they are champions and they can break through these barriers. No matter what these girls are facing, there are answers for them and we want to get the answers to them.

Barrier Breaking Champions will continue building a database identifying teenage girls who are in need of a mentor and pair them up with a mentor who can make a difference in their lives. There is a mentoring gap of 14.2 million young teens between the ages of 10-18 who are in the middle to low risk category which means they are not yet sexually active and are not involved in substance abuse. This means we have a golden opportunity to still make a giant difference in these young lives.

Blog with us at www.youthchosen4action.blogspot.com or email us at the address below. Please, if you are a teen, take our survey here on this page.

Signed,
Peppermint Mocha –
Peppermintmocha@chosen4action.com