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WILDCAT YOUTH MENTORS - 2003 to present: "Mentoring to Success - Graduate from High School" is the mission of our School-Based Mentoring Program. Our mentors are volunteers from the University of New Hampshire, students and alumni. The UNH role models are of high morale character and prove to be reliable and accountable.

Local "Students of Promise" are being served at Barrington Middle, Dover Children's Home, Epping High, Newmarket Jr. High, Oyster River High, Seymour Osman Community Center and St.Mary Academy. Young teens are experiencing renewed self-esteem, socialization and academic/life enrichment visits from our adult members of Wildcat Youth Mentors.

NEW HAMPSHIRE OFFICE OF VOLUNTEERISM - 1998 to 2000: As an accommodation to the then Governor Jeanne Shaheen, our President & CEO, Bruce A. Montville EE went "on loan" for a two year appointment as Director, New Hampshire Office of Volunteerism. Montville became the catalyst, facilitator and resource for volunteerism. He organized and raised funds for two consecutive Governor's Conferences on Volunteerism and coordinated and presented three annual Prudential Spirit of Community Award Ceremonies for NH students before the Governor and Executive Council. As Director, he became a keynote speaker honoring volunteer achievers at recognition events held by American Red Cross, NH Partners in Education, NH Public Television, State of NH and various other nonprofit organizations.

SERVE NEW ENGLAND - 2002 to 2003: LifeWise became their interim ambassador for chapter development within New Hampshire. Serve New England provides a quality food reward program in exchange for two hours of community service per month. LifeWise marketed and promoted new and replacement chapter openings. Please review Serve New England at www.servenewengland.org

CAMP ALLEN - 2001 to present: LifeWise is acting as a catalyst, facilitator and resource for volunteer manpower which is now being applied to the rehabilitation of this 40 year old camp for the disabled. Camp Allen is on 50 acres in Bedford, NH, with 14 buildings, serving a population of of 350 during the summer months. To date, LifeWise has enlisted the services of two volunteer groups to assist with "Rebuild For The Future." They are Teamsters Local #633 of Manchester and Verizon's Telephone Pioneers of MA, NH and NY.

GROUNDWATER EDUCATION -1999 to present: “Future Water Guardians of NH” (FWGNH) was developed by LifeWise in 1999. This environmental education program is funded by NH Dept. Environmental Services and NH Coastal Program through 2004. This annual program is delivered to over 6000 elementary & middle school students throughout NH. Trained volunteers explain the Water Cycle, Watershed, Point Source & Nonpoint Source Pollution and demonstrate the cause and effect of contamination in groundwater. Professional Groundwater Models and Nonpoint Source (watershed) Models are used in the classrooms, engaging individual student participation. FWGNH has become a “Public Safety Initiative.” The EPA has recognized, Bruce A. Montville EE, our curriculum designer and Project Director as their 2004 Environmental Educator (EE) of New England.

CITIZEN TO CITIZEN -1998 to 1999: LifeWise in partnership with the NH Division of Adult & Elderly Services established a Volunteer Center for Strafford County. This pilot program became very productive and successful in meeting the assistance and socialization needs of elders and people with disabilities in this thirteen-town region. An incentive of service credits (NH Time Dollars) was applied to each volunteer in exchange for their hours of volunteerism each month. A service credit is equivalent to a single volunteer hour performed. The value of a service credit is the right to receive an hour of volunteer service as a payback. While all of our volunteers earned many service credits, most gave them away (gift certificate vouchers) or held them for a "rainy day". Citizen to Citizen administered NH Time Dollars and was able to deliver earned volunteer hours through the cooperation of several service clubs. LifeWise believes that the incentive of the NH Time Dollar program has great merit. We expect to implement NHTD in future programs. 

STOP THE SMOKE - A program, in partnership with NH Celebrates Wellness, to educate young people about the effects of secondhand smoke. Special concentration on environmental smoke education was applied to the court diversion youth population of NH. 

NH PURE - A program using volunteers to conduct wellhead protection and source water assessments in partnership with the EPA and the NH Department of Environmental Services. 

UNIVERSAL ACCESS PROJECT - A partnership with Division of Parks and Recreation, NH Dept. of Resources and Economic Development to construct a "Shore Patio" and ramp facility giving access to the shoreline for people in wheelchairs and with other mobility problems. A $250,000 value completed at Hampton Beach, 1997. 

COMMUNITY CITIZEN ALLIANCE PROJECT - Designed to add volunteers to under-funded social service agencies, both private and public.

MEDIA INTERN PROGRAM - Recruited and assigned work study study and volunteer students from UNH to non-profits to work on public relations development.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES - A program to recruit and refer volunteers to health and human service agencies.

VOTE AMERICA - Volunteers performed education outreach for voter registrations statewide. 

ACCESS RAMPS - Provided a summer youth construction team (via NH Job Training Council) to meet ADA regulations. Special education students made up the entire labor force.