Welcome to HEMI
Everyone Deserves a Champion!
What is HEMI?
How can I help?
The Higher Education Mentoring Initiative (HEMI) seeks to help prepare foster youth for post-secondary education and training. The HEMI program recruits, trains, and supports mentors to establish positive long-term relationships with foster youth. Mentors assist, encourage, and support students' academic achievement through high school and help create a direct pathway to education and career training opportunities after graduation.
HEMI is always recruiting community volunteers to become mentors!
HEMI relies on our community partners and generous donations from supporters like you. Make a donation today!
If you would like to help HEMI in other ways, email us to find out how you or your organization can make a difference in the lives of Hamilton County foster youth!
"The HEMI program opens a door that many of our foster children thought closed long ago... When a mentor sits down and explains how post-secondary education or training does not have to be a dream, and that it can be a reality, you see the youth's eyes light up and the hope spread across their faces. This is their chance to make it."
-Moira Weir
HEMI Founder and Director of Hamilton County Job and Family Services
Upcoming Events
February Meet-Up
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017
6:00-8:00 at Peoples Church
220 William Howard Taft Rd.
Mentees will work with local artist, Cedric Cox on a mural to be auctioned off at the Derby. Mentors will learn more about trauma informed care.
March Meet-Up
Thursday, March 2, 2017
6:00-8:00 at Peoples Church
220 William Howard Taft Rd.
Learn about human trafficking: a modern form of slavery.