Work Ethics Mentors

We all like to help kids, but until PACT’s Work Ethics Education Program (WE) began in 1994, there was no structured, one-on-one adult mentored program we know of that concentrated on instilling the work ethic and acculturating at risk kids. PACT is an innovative social enterprise that almost (98%) achieved self-supporting status in 2005.  

PACT’s successful 13-year pilot program has proven that the volunteer spirit
of a person can be stretched to 10-20 hours a week if volunteers can earn a supplemental income of $1,000 - $1,500/month; $15 - $25/hour on commission. ("Paid Volunteers" is how we designate PACT’s Work Ethics
adult mentors)

As a PACT Mentor, you can be as generous with your time as you like, as a "Paid Volunteer." To usefully mentor a kid more than once a week, adults in today’s world must be paid enough to usefully supplement their basic income. You befriend, coach, mentor your kid 85% of the time that you are working together– a unique method of mentoring, which utilizes a rare worklike experience available to 9-15 year olds. It’s a work that works.

Work with PACT is flexible. Pick the days you want to work, early weekday evenings; or weekend mornings or evenings. We pick the kids for you to be with the 2-1/2 hours of each work session. You are an independent contractor, paid commissions weekly.

You can change the days you’ve scheduled from week to week. Even day-by-day, as long as you let us know weekdays by 3:00 p.m. that day you’ve signed up to work. (By 4:00 p.m. Friday if you are working that weekend.)

PACT’s mentoring isn’t really work work - but you are paid!
You are outside walking and talking with our youngsters, coaching them, enlightening them, introducing them to the world to which you’d like to see them acculturated. Weekdays, you will typically pick up your kid at 5:30 and drive them to a nearby, safe neighborhood, where you work door by door until 8:30. Then you return him/her home by 9pm, fed. We've knocked on doors over two million times without a single incident.

It does take time, but this mentoring is unlike any work you’ve ever done before: all the while, at your convenience, you can earn the supplemental income you need. Alternately, you can contribute this income to PACT. This unique opportunity keeps mentors with us year after year.

Whatever part of the week you can devote, you will be doubly rewarded: psychically as well as financially.

In addition there are the fun, community service and educational activities we encourage you to indulge in with our kids–at no expense to you.

QUALIFICATIONS: Mature, upbeat, like kids, a positive role model,
skilled with people, want to make a difference, some college education preferred. You must have a driver’s license, insured car, social security card and a smile. Also critical: three strong character references (each will be checked), plus you’ll be fingerprinted. You will be working with our youngsters, so we are careful. Never an incident of any kind. We are registered with the LAPD.

Call for a personal half-hour screening interview at PACT.
Ask to see our video. Fax or e-mail us your resume, if you have one
(optional). You can be a PACT paid work mentor within one week when we have openings.

Work Ethics Apprentices

Work Ethics, uniquely, is at the core of PACT's structured, one-on-one adult mentored at risk youth program. After school and weekends PACT's Los Angeles apprentices are learning about work with an adult mentor, in safe neighborhoods. PACT youngsters, in 2 1/2 hour worklike sessions, meet the world, learn self-discipline, grow enthusiasms for life, build self-esteem, discover the rewards of work— and avoid street life and gangs. And they meet with and see how successful people live. They are being acculturated.

Beside the hourly compensation the kids earn, PACT's worklike sessions finance their fun and play. And our kids know it! In 2005, through their participation in PACT's Work Ethics Education Program (WE), they were party to generating 98% of PACT's income.

PACT each year provides dozens of recreational and educational activities for our youngsters. From beach parties for everyone, to the top of Mount Everest (via I-MAX), for recreation outings and the Getty Museum, PACT stimulates the joyous explorations of childhood.

PACT Mentors Help 9-15 Year Olds Achieve

• Self esteem is fueled by PACT's adult-mentored worklike opportunity.
• PACT compensates youngsters by the hour, equal to the
   minimum wage
• Acculturation is fostered by meeting successful strangers at
   their homes in safe neighborhoods
• Minds and enthusiasms are expanded through cultural,
   recreational and entertainment activities
• Practical life skills are taught
• The satisfaction of community service is ingrained early

Basic Requirements for becoming a PACT
Work Ethics Apprentice

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– Full of Life
– Gang free
– Drug free
– At least a C average and 80% attendance in school
– 9-15 years old
– Application co-signed by a parent or guardian

Westside: a resident in L.A. (Palms, Culver City, Mar Vista, Venice)
between Hughes, in Culver City, and the ocean, and south from National
to Jefferson.

Planned: satellites elsewhere in Los Angeles County and the U.S., each with its own appropriate residential boundaries.