The We Share Foundation's Youth Outreach Program helps parents and children gain skills and confidence to succeed in society. The program is part of a worldwide effort sponsored by a coalition of service organizations, including Quota International, to prevent drug abuse among youth.

The grants of U.S.$500 each can be renewed annually by clubs that initiate or sponsor youth mentoring or parenting skills programs locally.

And the program is making a difference. In Estes Park, Colorado, U.S.A., two-year-old Abe had severe speech delays because his single parent didn't talk to him enough to cultivate adequate language skills. The Estes Park Quota club, using a Youth Outreach grant, provided intensive speech therapy for Abe and paid for his parent and foster parent to enroll in a certified program to learn parenting skills and language development techniques. As a result, in only three months, Abe's vocabulary increased from 10 to 300 words, and he began making two-word sentences. Today, the little boy is thriving.

How Can We Get Started?
Your club can apply for a grant to help stop drug abuse among youth with this handy form. (To read and print out this form, you will need Adobe Acrobat
Reader. Click here to go to Adobe's Web site and download a free copy of Acrobat Reader.)

For a kit to help your club initiate a youth outreach program in your community, send your request—with your name and address—to mary@quota.org.

Mentoring gives parents and children the skills and confidence to achieve.