TLC/TnT
TLC/TnT (Tender Loving Care/Think' n Try) was founded in North Portland in the 1980s by Faye Palmerston, a single-parent Mom, and teacher.
Faye's goal is to support impoverished children by:
- Encouraging them toward more and more ambitious personal goals (including college).
- Encouraging them toward more and more ambitious personal goals (including college). 92% Of students involved in TLC/TnT stay in high school, graduate, and then go to college.
- Teaching them how to excel in social interactions
- Guiding them through a stepped process that turns young teens into peer mentors who become mentors to younger children.
TLC/TnT operates during the year and provides summer camps for dozens of children entering the program.
Although COVID-19 made summer camps untenable last year, the organization continues to provide personal mentoring and food support. This Summer the regular programs are still on hold, but TLC/TnT is busy planning activities to do with children in the housing developments (like story time and crafts.).
A snapshot of TLC/TNT before the pandemic
Exerps from TLC/TnT website
Before the pandemic, these young people representing remarkably diverse backgrounds in sharp contrast to city-wide trends. 43% Hispanic, 19% White, 22% Black, and 14% Asian students worked with 50 qualified high school and college peer mentors in building positive, long-lasting relationships.
As of 2017, they had 65 active high school and college students in our program.
Of the 36 students who went on to college, 25% were college seniors who graduated with honors and have moved on to pursue careers in their respective fields of healthcare, business, and politics.
100% Of the high school seniors graduated and moved on to pursue a Bachelor's degree.
Please visit the TLC/TNT Website. Contact Stewart Bartlett for more information.