Menu
Our Philosophy
Talking to children about how to make the right choice today prepares them to make a healthy choice today, but giving children the skills and the tools to make those healthy choices on their own and understand what influences them will ready them to make better choices for a lifetime.
The Mendez Foundation has made it its mission to make a difference in the lives of children, their families, and the community, and we put our efforts into preparing children and adolescents to navigate the opportunities and challenges that life has in store so they may reach their highest potential and be happy, productive adults.
A Recipe for Success
At the core of all the Mendez Foundation programs, is self-efficacy and interpersonal skills development, which forms a foundation to build a readiness to make positive life decisions and set achievable goals. Talking to children to make the right choice today prepares them to make a healthy choice today, but giving children the skills and the tools to make those healthy choices on their own and understand what influences them will ready them for a lifetime.
A Comprehensive Approach
The Mendez Foundation believes providing age and developmentally-appropriate skills and information that incorporates the developmental domains – social, emotional, cognitive, and physical – as essential to the health and well-being of children everywhere. We are committed to the principle that children play a central role in their development. The Mendez Foundation and its programs are guided by the principle that a student equipped with a sense of self-efficacy and the confidence to try, and try again, reject negative peer influence, and forge a path driven by what they want to accomplish in life is more likely to make healthy choices and develop positive behaviors.
