Promote health in 100 teens in Portland, Oregon

MIKE Program Mentors Mark Closure with Achievements A highlight of mentoring with MIKE Program is the program closing ceremony. The activity marks the accomplishments of both the youth and mentors. Ten mentors volunteered for the fall semester at De La Salle North Catholic High School. Their efforts encouraged 48 freshmen...

MIKE Program Mentors Guide Youth to Healthy Lifestyles When MIKE Program Mentor Richard Burton showed up in a wheelchair last month, participants in his ninth grade team were concerned for his well-being. They asked Richard what happened and then proceeded to pray for him at the beginning of class. Richard mentors at De La...

MIKE Program empowers youth to be health leaders--ambassadors of healthy kidneys--through education, mentorship and community outreach. It is a mission that guides staff, volunteers and youth to improve the health of young people and their communities. The outreach happens in the classroom and throughout the...

MIKE Program Recognizes 136 MIKE Program recognized 136 youth for completing their health empowerment experience this June.  In ceremonies at De La Salle North Catholic High School and Rosemary Anderson High School in inner north Portland and Miller Education Center West in rural Hillsboro, Oregon, MIKE Program mentors...

MIKE Program Youth “Make a Kidney” MIKE Program’s Cheryl Neal, MD, tested dozens of makeshift kidneys made by freshmen at De La Salle North Catholic High School recently. The project is part of MIKE Program’s curriculum that matches teams to compete for the best kidney made from everyday household...

Youth Learn Why Health Matters to Them After participating in a MIKE Program activity about how youth respond to healthy and unhealthy foods, Alison realized what it meant. She wrote on her lesson sheet, “health is all that matters.” She, like most of her peers is beginning to understand the links between their...

What Youth Want MIKE Program connects with youth is by guiding them into peer-relationships that help them discover their leadership capacities and voice. We begin by listening to them. Each new school year, MIKE Program conducts a preliminary survey of each student to discover what they are expecting from the program. We...

New School Year is New Opportunity for Youth, Mentors and Teachers MIKE Program has been busy all summer to provide local teachers with the tools they need to incorporate healthy lifestyles in their health classes. Jess Bogli, Oregon’s health education curriculum specialist, led a two-day workshop in August to help...

MIKE Program Partners with La Salle North Catholic High School to Empower Youth to be Ambassadors of Health MIKE Program has been empowering the youth at De La Salle to be ambassadors of health for two years. MIKE Program brings youth together with caring mentors who support teens in academic and career success. De La...

First Semester 2010-2011 Youth Projects January marked the end of the first 2010-11 MIKE Program youth projects. Youth creations included several YouTube videos (stay tuned for their internet debut), an informational poster, and an educational rap. Youth reflect on their community project and their experience with MIKE...

MIKE Program Project Update: Each week, 13 MIKE Program mentors work with 65 youth at De La Salle North Catholic High School, a private Catholic high school serving low-income urban youth in north Portland, and Miller Education Center West, an alternative school in rural Hillsboro, Oregon. Each mentor is in charge of a...