SMILES Mentoring Program

SMILES Mentoring Program School-Based Youth Mentoring Program SMILES Mentors are an asset to the community.

The SouthCoast Mentoring Initiative for Learning, Education and Service (SMILES), a program of People, Incorporated, began in 2003 as a partnership involving leaders from the business, faith, and education communities in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The program was developed in response to the area’s longstanding high and chronic dropout rate, which has contributed to poor workforce education demog

raphics and inhibited economic development. The establishment of SMILES is a direct response to research that identified mentoring as one of the most effective strategies to keep at-risk students in school through graduation. The SMILES Mentoring Program helps to empower youth in our community to make positive life choices that enable them to maximize their potential. The mentoring program recruits adult volunteers who will commit to supporting, guiding, and being a friend to a young person for a period of at least one school year, one hour per week. As a group they serve to be part of the solution to attaining a better educated, responsible and community minded society.

Happy Independence Day!
07/04/2022

Happy Independence Day!

March 2 is "Read Across America Day' and the birthday of Dr. Seuss! Today is a great time to read and engage with childr...
03/02/2021

March 2 is "Read Across America Day' and the birthday of Dr. Seuss! Today is a great time to read and engage with children to develop their love of reading.

Dr. Seuss: "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go!"

12/01/2020

Go to peopleincfr.org/donate/ and click on “2020 Giving Tree."

One of the holiday traditions at People Incorporated is the “Giving Tree.” Each year employees, our board, and community members would go to a tree set up at one of our sites and take an ornament that matched a child in our programs and then purchase a gift to be distributed to the families. This year, we cannot host the Giving Tree in the usual manner due to the pandemic, so we plan to support these deserving children through a virtual version of the Giving Tree. Will you help a child this year?

The Giving Tree allows us to reach those who need us most, especially during a uniquely difficult year. Thank you!

If you have a child under 5 but are no longer participating in WIC, they want your feedback!
11/20/2020

If you have a child under 5 but are no longer participating in WIC, they want your feedback!

Today and every day, we are grateful for veterans, including our current and former military staff. Thank you for your s...
11/11/2020

Today and every day, we are grateful for veterans, including our current and former military staff. Thank you for your service!

Make sure your voice is heard!
11/03/2020

Make sure your voice is heard!

Stand together for UNITY!October 21-23
10/22/2020

Stand together for UNITY!
October 21-23



Ever feel blue? Pete the Cat does too! Read along with Megan Tavares as Pete the Cat explores the world in his Magic Sun...
05/26/2020

Ever feel blue? Pete the Cat does too! Read along with Megan Tavares as Pete the Cat explores the world in his Magic Sunglasses!

https://youtu.be/SMAp2B2MZls

05/08/2020

The first week in May signals warming temperatures and the approaching height of spring. It is also Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week.

Our own Megan Tavares, Early Childhood Support Specialist at the People Incorporated Preschool and People Incorporated Children’s Center, shares her insight and thoughts as the week takes on special considerations this year in a new world that might be unfamiliar and unsettling to some children.

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