Criteria for LEAP Mentors

• Good role models
• Good school citizens
• Students willing to make a commitment
• Encouraging and supportive
• Regular one-on-one contacts with the elementary students
• Strong enough sense of self that he/she is comfortable helping others

Elementary Socially At-Risk Students

• Non-residents of school community
• Physical disability
• Emotional problems
• Cognitively delayed
• Extremely high academic success
• Dysfunctional family
• Lack of parent role model
• Poor interaction and communication skills