Future Ready Advocate Mentoring
Creating positive academic and healthy social identities
Future Ready Advocate Mentoring (FRAM) is a school-based mentoring program that targets, but is not exclusive to, students of color in the Wichita Public Schools who have demonstrated a need for a positive role model to help them focus on academics, attendance, and behavior.
Our FRAM advocates have received extensive training that equips them with the necessary tools to help their students establish positive academic identities, healthy social identities, and improve relationships through restorative practices.
Academic Identity
An individual’s attempt to construct self-understanding and meaning by defining himself through academic values, school belonging, school regard and school performance.
–Mathews: Multiple Pathways to Identification, 2014
Social Identity
Includes self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and restorative decision-making.
–Casel Framework of SEL
Restorative Practices
Restorative practices is a social science that studies how to improve and repair relationships between people and communities.
–International Institute for Restorative Practice
What is School-Based Mentoring?
School-based mentoring programs are usually housed at the school site, with adults and youth meeting in various campus locations and making use of school facilities and administrative space.
–Mentor Resource Center
2022-2023 School Year
From the Mentor Resource Center
The Stats
- 21 schools
- 450 students
- 13 mentors
- 8,316 student contacts made during the 2021- 2022 school year
- 47.2% of contacts were made with a student who was part of the FRA’s case load
- 55.7% high school contacts
- 41.2% middle school contacts
The Ultimate Goal
For Our Students Is:
- 95% Attendance
- 0 Office Referrals
- 3.0 GPA
Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory
(Brofenbrenner, The Ecology of Human Development, 1979)
Phenomenological Variant Ecological Systems Theory
Margaret Spencer (1997, 1999)