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Derby district to pilot Prime Fit Youth mentoring program at two schools
Summary
Administrators presented Prime Fit Youth, a mentor-based prevention/intervention nonprofit program, and proposed a short pilot at Tanglewood and Derby Middle School. The program emphasizes daily mentor check-ins, weekly group SEL work and on-call de-escalation support.
Derby Public Schools staff introduced a proposal to pilot Prime Fit Youth, a non-profit mentorship program that pairs trained mentors with students for daily check-ins, twice-weekly academic support and weekly small-group social-emotional lessons.
Kim Wilson, a Wichita State professor and Prime Fit co-founder, and Tian (Tion) Wilson, a program director, described the model used in Wichita and other…
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