Meet Me Halfway Village Center

 MMH is a community/faith-based school mentoring program established in 2004 by Bernard Fayall to provide holistic mentoring, training and resources to students , training and supportive services to teachers and advocacy for parents and caregivers.  MMH employs a small cadre of professional staff and solicits the support of dedicated and caring volunteers in order to enhance their mission of providing mentoring and supportive services to improve the quality of life of its student members and their families.

The vision of MMH embraces core values that support the use of a family-centered, strengths-based approach in order to enhance the lives of the students who participate in the program.  This approach acknowledges that families are the primary decision makers regarding their children’s learning experiences and development.

Through this approach the following tools are utilized:

• Advocacy:  Advocacy is powerful.  It can cause positive changes in the lives of the children whose families practice it, as well as within larger circles of children and families in the community.

• Collaboration:  All members of a team - those persons designated by the family to provide support - are valuable when working together in the best interest of the child and family.  A combination of unique strengths and roles forms the foundation.

• Self Reliance:   Each family has a right and responsibility to maintain their own families.

• Natural Environments:  Families and children get support within, and relevant to, the places and activities that make up their lives.

This strengths-based approach is integrated throughout the different programs offered at MMH.  Children enrolled in the mentoring program are given opportunities to be creative and express their individual talents and gifts.  In their role as educational liaisons, MMH has developed innovative strategies that acknowledge and support the collective strengths of the families, communities and schools.  More importantly, MMH consistently maintains a posture of advocacy and works to remove both minor and significant barriers in the home, at the school and in the community that may negatively impact the academic, psychological, social and physical development of the children in the community.