The LEAD Program graduating class of 2011.
About Us
The Canadian Multicultural LEAD Organization for Mentoring and Training is a registered charity that offers programs that enlighten and empower youth to succeed.
Our mission is to give individuals from youth to seniors the support to develop strategies and tools to create their own success stories.
We achieve our mission by empowering individuals to build key skills, which are founded on four principles: Leadership, Empowerment, Achievement, and Determination.
Since its inception in 2007, LEAD has reached over 5,000 youth and 2,000 seniors across the greater Toronto area.
Through their participation in the L.E.A.D. Program, 94% of high school students have successfully transitioned from high school to University/College and the workforce. We are proud of all our LEAD students.
Our Charitable Objectives
1
To Advance Careers
By offering mentorship and training programs that develop positive and sustainable career growth.
2
To Advance Education
By providing 1:1 tutoring, volunteer experience and guidance counselling to youth.
3
To Invest in Seniors
By providing educational, recreational, and social programs to increase literacy, promote health, and alleviate isolation by promoting inclusion.
Our message to the youth of today is "life is a long road but thankfully, we don't have to walk it alone."
Our strategic focus for the L.E.A.D. Program is to maximize the impact of enhancing students’ social and emotional learning. We have identified our four core competencies amoung the pillars of self-worth, self-management, life skills and community engagement. The L.E.A.D. Program serves to train and equip high school students with practical life-skills. Knowledge indeed becomes the secret of empowerment. Life skills learned in the L.E.A.D. Program enable the students to be adaptable to the changes they will face in life as they mature.
As mentors, the program directors recognize that failure is a part of success. The students are motivated to become confident leaders moving on from the relative dependency of high school to the independence of College, University and ultimately the work force. The focus of The L.E.A.D Program is to move the students from risk to resiliency while emphasizing the values of Leadership, Empowerment, Achievement and Determination.