MISSION STATEMENT To Provide Friendship, Support and Positive Role Modeling for Children in Order to Enhance Self-esteem, Promote Resiliency and a Healthy Lifestyle.

EVERYBODY NEEDS SOME BUDDY SOMETIME (application in pdf form)

A lunch Buddy is someone to eat with, someone to talk to, someone to listen to, someone to laugh with, someone a child can depend on to be there for them.

Our kids need you.

• Volunteering just 1 hour a week will put a smile on your heart.
• Youth who meet regularly with their mentors are:
  • 46% less likely to start using illegal drugs than their peers
  • 27% less likely to drink alcohol
  • 33% less likely to engage in violence

If you are interested in becoming a Lunch Buddy Mentor at one of our elementary schools, please contact Kathi Schroeder for an application at (503) 353-5663, or email lunchbuddyncsd@yahoo.com.

The North Clackamas School District Lunch Buddy Program is privately funded, if you are unable to be a Lunch Buddy at this time, but would like to support this important program, please make checks payable to NCEF - Lunch Buddy Program.

Contact: Linda Parsons, Lunch Buddy Coordinator, (503) 353-5663.

Please mail checks to:
Lunch Buddy Program
6031 SE King Road
Milwaukie, OR  97222

Program Sponsors (2008):