“I always wanted to start a mentoring program, but I didn’t know how it was going to happen,” said Keyonna Whaley, a WKU junior from Louisville studying criminology and organizational leadership and founder of Sister Act Mentoring Program.
Sister Act Mentoring Program formed in the fall of 2019 and currently focuses on mentoring high school students to better prepare them for college.
On Mondays, mentors visit Bowling Green High School to present a topic and answer any questions from students in the P.R.O.W.E.S.S. (Providing Real Opportunities Where Everyone Sees Success) Club, led by teacher Kimberly Calhoun. The mentors ask the students what topics they would be interested in learning more about and then bring in speakers for those subject areas.
“The objective of P.R.O.W.E.S.S. is to equip and empower its members to know and invest in themselves in order to excel socially, professionally, academically, physically, psychologically, and familially,” Calhoun said.