About the Project

Every student in the education system deserves more than academic support. The TIES Network pursues this goal by creating a replicable model for peer mentorship and social integration by offering a multidimensional approach that intertwines two basic elements: educational resources oriented at awareness and community-building measures focusing on sustainable implementation. The model theorizes an underlying assumption that adolescent health will thrive when older students are prepared with the tools to help younger peers navigate both academic demands and emotional challenges.

The project first aims to develop a complete mentor training manual that summarizes research-based strategies for developing effective peer mentoring in an accessible form for high school students. Through the resource, we will attempt to explore the foundations of mentorship, its role in promoting adolescent development, and equip mentors with frameworks for applying it. Following the manual's distribution, the initiative plans on conducting interactive training workshops in practical settings through simulations, roleplay scenarios, and collaborative problem-solving sessions, aiming to directly address the challenges of exclusion, lack of empathy, and potential improvisations that the mentors may encounter.

To support ongoing mentor-mentee interactions, an activity toolkit is under creation, containing exercises for critical skills of goal-setting, skill-sharing, and collaborative problem-solving, to provide mentors with concrete frameworks for leading their day-to-day engagements. The initiative has also started curation of a dedicated repository of external opportunities ranging from artistic competitions to educational resources that can be leveraged based on students' interests, effectively serving as a bridge to broader developmental pathways.

The initiative also involves a crowdfunding effort in order to generate capital for operational needs and support the establishment of an after-school discussion club. This club will function as an institutionalized safe space for structured socialization, storytelling, team-based planning for events, and emotional support for every member. To guide the regulations of the club, a dedicated club constitution is under construction, covering essential principles for maintaining psychological safety, mapping discussion themes across the academic calendar, and proposing festivity-based activities that can be independently organized by students. Through the integrated approach, the TIES Network hopes to cultivate a self-sustaining community care framework that, by embedding itself in the institution, will promote perennial social support to the students.