What Sets Us Apart
 Not just another summer camp, leadership conference, mentoring program, videotape series, recreational activity, etc., etc., etc.,
The Second Mile IS different. The Second Mile Challenges Young People to Strive for Excellence!
- We provide young people with the power of self-determination. Youths shape their own destinies as their choices and actions determine what recognition, rewards, and additional opportunities they'll receive in Second Mile programs.
- We maximize the possibility of success by offering year-round support through a network of caring volunteers, staff, and community professionals. This encouragement comes in many forms including letters, cards, phone calls, meetings, site visits, and special activities.
- We enrich and empower youth through a call to community service as Second Mile programs teach, preach, recognize and reward a commitment to school, neighborhood, town, and country. Just as they benefit from the generosity of others, Second Mile youth learn to appreciate that they, too, can make valuable contributions to the lives of others.
- We have a history of program development that draws from and shapes "cutting edge" research in the areas of child and adolescent development, at-risk youth programming, and human service program management and delivery. For example, our attention to developing programs and services, which provide youth with positive, definable qualities and experiences, now termed "the 40 developmental assets," pre-dates the current research literature.
- We work in coordination and collaboration with parents, schools/school personnel, other community agencies, and local volunteers to identify issues, define goals, assign roles/tasks, avoid duplication, monitor progress, seek additional support, celebrate successes, and continuously assess and modify programs.
- We are able to offer both responsive and sustained attention to needs identified by youth, their families, and the professionals who serve them because our philosophical and practical commitment to private, rather than government, funding allows for both flexibility and continuity in the development and delivery of programs.
- We leverage our effectiveness and efficiency by developing model programs that, while "exportable," be provided, as well as customized, to meet the needs of individual communities because of the expertise and support of area volunteers.
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