Collaboration with Boys & Girls Club Talent
Thursdays, 3:30p – 5p
Boys & Girls Club of Talent
*Families must register directly with Boys & Girls Clubs of the Rogue Valley After-school Program in Talent directly: call 541-292-4851 for more details.
RVM Lead Mentors meet with youth in 4th and 5th grade each week on Thursdays, during their time at the Boys & Girls Club After-school Program in Talent, Oregon.
Each week, our staff gets to hang out with these youth to create art, share snacks, play games, and talk about how things are going. We’re so grateful for this opportunity to serve youth at Boys & Girls Club, Talent!
Our Mission: The mission of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Rogue Valley is to provide year-round positive, fun and safe places for all youth, helping them to build self-esteem and develop skills necessary to make right choices, and become responsible, productive citizens.
Boys & Girls Club Circles 22-23
Meet our Boys & Girls Club Mentors
Learn more about them below, or meet the whole RVM Team here!
All RVM staff are carefully background checked and vetted, then thoroughly trained in concepts and skills important to building resilience and empowering youth. Trainings including strengths-based communication, trauma-informed care, adolescent development, avoiding bias, youth mental health, suicide intervention, and de-escalation. All staff undergo on-going training, and background checks are conducted every 2 years.
Lilith Allred
Lead Mentor
Lilith grew up in the small university town of Missoula, Montana, where she became involved with social justice and queer liberation as a youth leader with Empower MT, serving schools and workplaces with diversity training and community art projects. She moved to Southern Oregon in 2018, with their parents and two brothers. Lilith carried on with her passion for building community interning with Unite Oregon and Rogue Climate, until graduating as valedictorian at Central Medford High School. Since then, she has been learning about grassroots organizing, inclusive and trauma-informed youth support, as well as writing and singing original music locally in Ashland.
In her free time, she is a member of the Sustainability Collective, a creative space for bringing healing arts and inspiring conversation to all through music, art, dance, storytelling, and brainstorming ways to bring our community together to restore ecological balance.
Jimena Franco Sanchez
Lead Mentor
Hi! My name is Jimena Franco; I was born in Mexico and lived there for most of my life, until I moved to the U.S when I was 16. I have been living in the Rogue Valley for the last 5 years. I graduated from Eagle Point High School in 2020 with the Oregon Biliteracy Seal, and since then I have been developing and growing my own small business, creating handmade crafts and jewelry.
I recently joined Rogue Valley Mentoring to pursue another of my interests: working with youth and the community. In my free time, I enjoy going to the library to read, watching weird movies, cooking for my family, and my favorite, making arts and crafts.
Kat DeCayette
Program Director
I see my journey as an amazing tapestry woven with adventures, memories and meaningful relationships. My daughter—Krista, and my cat, Maji-- are central to and inspire my passion to make a difference in the world and help others make a difference in their lives. Teaching, listening, sharing, these are my cornerstones. One of the most rewarding steps on my life path has been as an educator. I taught High School English, where I both empowered and became empowered by my students through the singular gift of education—the willingness to listen, to share and to learn.
Working as Program Director for Rogue Valley Mentoring is natural to my journey. We all have the ability to leave a meaningful footprint—a small gift of ourselves that shapes the world in which we live. It comes down to choice. The choice to care about the legacy we leave and our imprint on the lives around us. As Program Director for Rogue Valley Mentoring, I am afforded the opportunity to work, teach and learn with incredible individuals who care about the youth in our communities, to share knowledge and ways of being that facilitate empowerment and aid in choosing a mindful legacy—that footprint on a path toward meaning and making a difference.
