Impact Mentoring is a peer mentoring program that matches high school role models with junior high school protégés in a cross-age mentoring experience. Mentors and protégés meet weekly in a supervised and structured mentoring session. During the session protégés set academic and personal goals and receive coaching from their mentors on ways to achieve those goals. This is a referral based 12-week program that occurs on middle school campuses throughout Butte County. Program participants focus on skills such as goal setting, creating trust, study habits, anger management, culture and diversity, preventing rumors and gossip, dependability, along with many other focus areas. The Prevention Unit currently facilitates Impact Mentoring at the following middle school sites: Ishi Hills, Biggs, Sycamore, Bidwell and Marsh. For more information, please call (530) 891-2891.