FOX/HAMILTON MENTORTAINMENT PROGRAM
PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
The Fox/Hamilton MentorTainment program in Los Angeles, founded by Fox Music in 2002, is designed to address the need to match youth with caring, responsible mentors. Music industry professionals are recruited to mentor high school students using music as an entry point of engagement, a shared passion, and a pathway to learning, communicating and preparing for the future. Fox Music employees, NARAS employees and members, and other music industry professionals mentor students at Hamilton High School Academy of Music. Through a structured network involving the high school, Fox Music and a professional mentoring coordinator, the Fox/Hamilton MentorTainment program will provide support for volunteers and young people to develop successful mentoring relationships. The Fox/Hamilton MentorTainment Program goals for Hamilton High School Academy of Music Students are:
GOALS:
• To broaden students’ awareness of education and employment opportunities in music-related fields
• To establish ongoing, caring relationships with adult mentors
• To build students’ knowledge and experience in goal-setting
CRITERIA:
STUDENTS: Students in grade 11 from Hamilton High School ’s Academy of Music . Students must have a “C” average or better, be in at least one performing class at Hamilton , and must be nominated by a teacher/staff member.
MENTORS: Fox Music staff and staff of other music-related Fox departments; music professionals from other organizations.
WHAT: Topic-driven presentations, followed by team discussion and/or one-to-one conversation (relationship building) at school-site, job-shadowing at Fox Music, GRAMMY in the Schools activities including Music Industry Career Workshops, Career Handbook (and how to utilize it – facilitated by mentors), attendance at music events, goal-setting/achieving, college prep. Activities, music skill-buildling and related dialogue between mentors and mentees.
WHEN: October – May
Two (2) mentoring sessions per month, two (2) hours each session.
WHERE: Hamilton High School , Fox Music, and various music venues.
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS:
• Completed Application (mentors and mentees)
• Orientation for mentors and mentees
• Screening for mentors (reference check, approval of Supervisor, TB test, finger-printing)
• Training for mentors – (Four hours (with follow-up for two hours)
• Training to include traditional mentor training, and training on diversity by Twentieth Century Fox
• Diversity Development Department, as well as music-related goal setting information.
• Program Sessions (mandatory for all participants)
Cheryl Mollicone
Director, Fox Hamilton MentorTainment Program
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