Youth Tutoring & Mentoring

Hope and Care's Tutoring and Mentoring Program provides children and youth mentoring and tutoring services for academic success in preparation for a pathway to access and succeed in post-secondary education.

One of the volunteering activities that Hope and Care conducts on regular bases is empowering refugee/immigrant youth and children through education. Our aim is to improve school achievement and high school completion of youth from marginalized communities and/or youth with less academic support at home due to their parents’ lower education levels.

Our university graduate members and a hired professional teacher provide free regular tutoring classes to students from grades 2 to 12. We help students with their assignments and homework and give extra teaching hours on topics they might have difficulties or not fully understood at their regular school hours.

We also tutor young adults who want to upgrade their math and science skills and plan to go to trade schools.

Hope and Care also conducts regular mentoring sessions for the youth. Becoming a mentor helps a young person do better in school, understand their strengths, and reach their goals. Our volunteering mentors are constructive role models for the youth they mentor; they spend time with the youth, support them, advise them and develop friendship relations with them which we strongly believe can have a positive impact on the youths’ academic achievements and other life experiences. We conduct group mentoring as well as one-on-one basis. 

Program Schedule:

Mondays from 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM.

Wednesdays from 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM

Fridays form 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM (for adults 22+years).

Saturdays from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

Other days by appointment.

With the help of our donors, members, volunteers and relatives of the refugees overseas; Hope and Care sponsors multiple refugees each year. 

The settlement support services Hope and Care offer to refugees and new immigrants include: finding housing, providing household items, clothing, and other basic necessities, orienting newly arrived refugees to the transportation systems, connecting them with community services, offering friendship, moral and emotional support. We also provide services like resume preparation and job search, assistance with translation and interpretation, orientation and information programs on Canadian culture.

All most all members of our congregation were refugees at some point in the past and hence have a lot of things in common with the newcomers; we believe sharing our stories with the refugees help ease the culture shock and sometimes the loneliness that comes with migrating to new country. 

The goal of this program is to help new refugees/immigrants improve their English skills by practicing conversations with our native English speaking volunteers. This program also sets the foundation for adults interested in enrolling in formal English classes, such as the ESL or LINC.