Interview Questions & Answers

Antquan Smith from Sea Haven answered the following questions: 1.) How do you determine who can attend Sea Haven? Sea Haven Street Outreach program have Federal procedures that we follow which only allow youth from the ages of 17 to 21 to access our facility resources, but if we have any referrals were the youth is to young we follow our Safe Place procedures. 2.) Do you think mentoring at Sea Haven will improve their behavior and social skills? I believe that it will improve their behavior and social skills because they are interacting with youth from different backgrounds. 3.) How did Sea Haven get discovered? • Sea Haven was incorporated in 1980 and is registered with the South Carolina Secretary of State as a 501 (c) 3 non-profit agency. • Sea Haven Inc is a member of the Youth and Family Services Network. YFSN provides training, consultation, funding, and advocacy support for members. The Sea Haven Executive Director is currently the South Carolina state representative for the YFSN Board. Information about the network is available at www.yfsn.org 4.) Do you usually see an increase in behavior in the kids when people mentor? We do see an increase in behavior because the mentees are usually in the same age range as our clients. 5.) Are there many behavior issues with the children? There are different behavior issues with each client that comes into our facility. Each client comes from diverse background when it comes to family issues. 6.) How often do you get applications for children to attend Sea Haven? The drop in center is non-residential and most of our clients are referred to our program from other agencies or word of mouth. 7.) Do you think there is enough awareness about Sea Haven? Sea Haven does a great job with awareness about the organization and is always seeking different ways to raise awareness about Sea haven and also the youth that we serve. 8.) Are there usually many volunteers that help at Sea Haven? We have a lot of support with volunteers, but the one issue we run into is the volunteers outside schedule which sometimes conflict with what we are doing 9.) Is Sea Haven a private organization? Sea haven is not a private organization