Los Angeles Team Mentoring (LATM) Celebrates Its 30th Year Mentoring At-Risk Middle School Youth
LATM'S Annual Soiree to Honor Goldman Sachs and Its Chairman and CEO David Solomon
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Los Angeles Team Mentoring (LATM), Los Angeles' pioneering non-profit organization guiding middle school students from challenging urban neighborhoods to reach their full potential, will honor Goldman Sachs and its Chairman and CEO, David Solomon, with the Keystone Award at LATM's Annual Soiree. Born from the ashes of the 1992 civil unrest, LATM celebrates its 30th Anniversary at the gala, taking place the evening of Thursday, October 20th, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills.
"We are so proud to be celebrating this milestone anniversary," says Maria Melton, LATM's Executive Director. "Three decades since our inception, nearly 30,000 children's lives have been transformed by 10,000 volunteer mentors who devoted themselves to helping our students. Goldman Sachs has played a critical role in nurturing and funding our program since our humble beginnings, and we owe so much gratitude to this important institution for their continued support of LATM. We could not have chosen a more appropriate honoree for this milestone than Goldman Sachs and its Chairman and CEO, David Solomon. Goldman Sachs' dedication to mentoring spans decades, with a commitment to transforming lives and communities throughout the world."
"Everybody needs mentorship—most of all, young people," said David Solomon, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. "It's important that LATM continue to expand its reach, and all of us at Goldman are honored to support its work."
"We look forward to honoring Goldman Sachs and its leader, David Solomon, at our 30th anniversary Soiree. It is because of their dedication to our students that we continue to inspire and serve LA's youth, providing meaningful mentoring relationships and opportunities in the same historically underrepresented communities as when we first began," said William Figueroa, LATM Director of Programs.
In 1992, LATM launched its first after-school mentoring program at Horace Mann Middle School, located in South Los Angeles. Its ground breaking team-based mentoring model, developed by the Princeton Center for Leadership, was instituted to train and encourage leadership, social emotional learning, and modify effects of gang activity, violence, poverty and high drop-out rates. LATM serves the second largest public school system in the United States and the program is exclusively available to students across LAUSD middle school sites.
Since its inception, the organization has provided approximately three million hours of service through mentoring youth in Los Angeles. The program focuses on the critical non-school hours – after-school, weekends and summers – to ensure students have safe and structured programming and access to trusted adult role models. Youth enroll in LATM's program in 6th, 7th and 8th grades. Although LATM does not provide tutoring, students in the program not only earn higher grades, but go on 4 years later to graduate from high school at a 22% higher rate (in spite of 29% of those same students coming from homes where neither parent has graduated from high school). In addition, 100% of LATM youth have increased self-esteem—giving them the critical foundation they need to dream big and succeed. LATM's core team mentoring model, TeamWorks, includes a team of three mentors consisting of a teacher, a college student, and a community/business volunteer that utilize an activity-based curriculum enabling students to develop social emotional skills and resiliency.
LATM's annual Soiree is the organization's signature fundraising event, which ensures hundreds of volunteer mentors are able to provide critical mentoring services to over 1,000 at-risk youth for an entire school year. The event sells out each year through sponsorships and support of dedicated organizations. This year's Keystone & Presenting sponsors include: Goldman Sachs, Live Nation, Latham & Watkins, and TPG Real Estate/Kelvin and Hana Davis.
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