Strength to Elevate Daytona Beach, Florida

What we run

Our programs

Students with a mentor are more successful across every area of their lives. Our mission is to empower youth by doing life together — building into them emotionally, physically and socially — with the goal that every student in our programs has a mentor.

Young men taking part in the mentoring program

Mentorship

Mentoring, three ways

One-on-one
Successful mentoring relationships move through four phases: preparation, negotiating, enabling growth, and closure. We build one-on-one relationships to help a young person navigate their specific needs, so every teen leaves with a positive outlook and a life-mapping guide to stay on track.
Group mentoring
For your school, nonprofit or organization. We match a skilled mentor to your group and shape the mentoring around your organization’s goals.
Virtual mentoring
The same relationship, at a distance. If you have internet access and a meeting platform, we can support a mentee anywhere in the world exactly as we do face to face.
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The Elevated Thinking summer cohort

Elevated Thinking · Summer

Career readiness, hands on

Designed to prepare youth to become self-sufficient, confident adults. Focusing on job and career readiness training, Elevated Thinking uses hands-on assignments to prepare students emotionally and professionally for employment. Participants build life skills, effective communication and professionalism across job search, interviews, attire, attitude and demeanor.

Program details and enrollment

What parents tell us

My child suffers from social anxiety and S2E gave her the tools she needed to learn to socialize. She still has a ways to go, but I’ve seen a big difference.
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Three students together at a Strength to Elevate program day
  • She is not an “in the front” person, but the Elevated Thinking program made her speak in front of people she didn’t know — and now she is confident for an interview.
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  • My child seemed stagnant regarding after high school plans. Strength to Elevate has opened up dialogue that he wasn’t having prior to participating in the program.
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  • My child had a few obstacles she faced and the program pushed her out of that hiding space and gave her support and tools to move forward.
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  • My kids shared a lot with me things they never knew about interviewing. Each day they learned something new. They state they feel better prepared for the workforce.
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  • My child learned the importance of knowing how to fill out job applications, researching colleges for the right fit, finding their true self, communication with socialization skills for life. The program brought accountability, imagination, and responsibility of what the future can hold for them by staying focused.
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  • My daughter attended a class over Spring Break and has provided a lot of feedback regarding needing to take on much more responsibility as a graduating senior, becoming more independent, and going full force after her goal of becoming a Travel Nurse. Ms. Daphne created a space for her to be much more focused on the tasks at hand, and better ways of communicating and team building with other students.
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